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Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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Date: 
Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:50:31 GMT
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"Scott E. Sanburn" wrote:

Sometimes, the
prof made us work in groups, and the people I got stuck with, I had to
do their work in order to get the good grade, and sometimes, I could
not, and I got a bad grade. I hate having my grade depend on slackers.
That is stupid as well, because my loans were riding on my grades.

When I was a sophomore in college I had to work with a group of five
other people to write a 40ish page paper.  We met over several weeks and
it became more and more evident that this group simply didn't have the
dynamic to make it happen.  I asked my professor if I could split off
and do it alone.  I couldn't.  Part of our grade was to see how we could
make group effort work.  I did it all.  At the time I was bugged that
they all got my 'B' for doing no work, but I got something so much
better.  I was the only sophomore that I knew who had written a forty
page paper.  From then on, I knew that I could write something of
length.  Maybe I should have been able to do that earlier - I have since
met people who did it in high school - but that wasn't the norm.  And I
knew that even though I was kind of a slacker, when push came to shove,
I could perform.

That group project was very good for me.  Even if I did resent it at the time.

Chris



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  Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
 
Chris, (...) I still resent it, simply because others dragged my grade down. I work with people all day, every day. My performance reviews and my salary depend on it. However, in school, it is not a real situation (See above posts), and me having (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
 
To All, OK, folks, since nobody got the ideas posting on this subject, especially from me, let's see if I can clear this up: 1) If this LEGO test to determine different skills was one of the factors to determine certain characteristics that the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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