It is school report season.
"Peter has had some issues with grammar concepts..." I have read from both the English and French departments.
It struck me that they should have put 'grammatical concepts' but when I Googled it there were plenty of hits for their version. Am I just old-fashioned?
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Yes.
But in good company.
We get older while language seems to get ever younger...
Ray: Thanks
Steve: Innit!
What are grammar concepts? If he's having them in both French and English surely he must be doing something right?
Perhaps the report was written on an Apple product? (You may recall the iconic Apple ad campaign promoting bad grammar, viz., "Think Different".)
Marginalia: I meant 2 staff have used this form of words, independently, about differehn pupils.
David: There IS a move to replace all our school laptops with iPads.
Oh, no! *sigh* I can just see students "reading" their assignments on their iPhads (while really texting, playing Angry Birds, updating their Facebook accounts and otherwise making "full use of the technology).
I can also see all kinds of "testing" performed on the Gorilla Glass screens...
(Sidebar: tablet use in place of notebooks notsomuch. My Son in Law loves his iPhad, but typing a report--or even an email longer than a few words--just is NOT as fluid on a tablet w/o a keyboard, and when you add a keyboard to a tablet, you have... a notebook.)
Books. Notebooks--no, real ones, "copybook headings" and all, and other appropriate technology like that: will these still have a place in our increasingly aliterate society?
(Sidebar #2: I initially began using computers specifically to improve my music manuscripts. Transcription software has come a long, long way since the DOS days, but I've noticed something along the way. Students--in general, there are always exceptions--who learn to write their scores by hand have seemed to more thoroughly absorb the theory, perhaps because it's an inherently slower process than just playing a scores in via a keyboard and then cleaning the score up, perhaps for other reasons. But it's seemed pretty consistent over my last couple of decades of my decreasing involvement with music ed. Perhaps there are other benefits to actually MANUscripting scores that are similar to those some researchers have discovered with handwriting as opposed to typing of papers, notes, etc.)
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