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RE: New Web Page
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lugnet.build
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Tue, 11 May 1999 17:57:34 GMT
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> Howdy,
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> ...just started posting pictures of students building cantilevers using
> Lego elements. The assignment is that they have to work in teams to build some
> sort of structure 12 inches tall with a cantilver extending out at least
> 6 inches that will be able to support 4 Lego weights.
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> Please check it out at:
http://www.weirdrichard.com/cant.htm
Richard (and anyone who is listening),
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, you are the kind of teacher that I wish
my kids had access to. I've got them in a second language immersion program to keep
their brains working, but it's still not enough (this is the kids, not me, talking)
I have to wonder how much public money goes into the LEGO in the classroom, or do
you have the discretion to decide on how funds are channelled to resources. I've got
to believe that you spend way more time than is normal preparing your lessons
and researching other ways to get things done. But the pictures show the results!!!
In the Ontario public school system, all you hear about are cutbacks and morale
problems, when the real issue is that both the teacher's union leadership and the
government are locked in a power struggle and the teachers are in the middle. The
union even has the teachers brainwashed into thinking that the kids are in the
middle (they are, but are squished under the teachers).
Ah, well, politics and LEGO don't really belong together anyways...
Way to go KIDS!!!!
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at:
<http://www.bmts.com/~rhempel/lego/pbFORTH/default.html>
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| Richard is a good teacher BECAUSE he teaches at a private school. No public school would ever allow that level of innovation and excellence. Might interfere with training antisocial shooters. Followups set to .debate (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) HEY! Watch your mouth. <rant> I go to a public school (district: (URL) ), and although LEGO was rarely used in the education I received, I have received, for the most part, a good education. There are different levels for each class offered, (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Howdy, ...just started posting pictures of students building cantilevers using Lego elements. The assignment is that they have to work in teams to build some sort of structure 12 inches tall with a cantilver extending out at least 6 inches that will (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.build)
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