Hi,
I have had a great week off school, I even got to visit here again
.
So why was I off school?
Well its actually pre exam study week, except the exam is next year (minor detail I guess). I am supposed to be studying for my (what the older people call metal work) exam, here its now called various things such as structural design and methodology. Also had I have actually been doing geography as a subject I would be doing exam study for that, I didnt choose geography but I get the time off anyway because the subject I chose instead dosnt have a mock exam yet!
The Metal work Exam is 2 hours long, you have 15 mins to design something simple (like a flat head screwdriver) and an hour and 45 mins to make it. The design part is equal to 20% of the total marks.
EXCEPT
My school dosnt have any money for materials!! So we are not going to actually make ANYTHING! Its a mock exam so no one is that worried, but suppose we did have some metal to make something? If we did then 3 days of this week I should have spent at school in the design block refining my metal manipulation skills, I would of kinda liked that. BUT it wouldnt have happened because this week the design block has no spare timetable slots for us to go in and use equipment!!!
OK
This leaves me with the logical choice of just going in to the IT suite and working on my design of a screwdriver.............. However we are not using CAD for this task it has to be paper, therefore we cant use the IT rooms we have to use the form rooms. Only because we are on study leave our form tutors are away on courses! No form teachers = no one to supervise = no one allowed in the form room!
So I am at home having designed 40 screwdrivers in 3 hours on CAN and then hand copied, job done!
I thought it was totally bonkers and a total waste of my time being at home doing something like this, but actually I got to dust off my soldering iron and do a few mods to my shed and lab. I also started a couple of projects, so for me its been a good week and I have learnt a fair bit. I havnt learnt what I was meant to learn, but learning is learning.
I am lucky in that I dont particularly like sitting about doing nothing, I am not a huge fan of game box's but I do like Mine craft for short periods.
So alot of others in my class have been online gaming etc and generally having a holiday, and that is modern learning today!
I kind of like it as it suites the way I learn
I have had a great week off school, I even got to visit here again
.So why was I off school?
Well its actually pre exam study week, except the exam is next year (minor detail I guess). I am supposed to be studying for my (what the older people call metal work) exam, here its now called various things such as structural design and methodology. Also had I have actually been doing geography as a subject I would be doing exam study for that, I didnt choose geography but I get the time off anyway because the subject I chose instead dosnt have a mock exam yet!
The Metal work Exam is 2 hours long, you have 15 mins to design something simple (like a flat head screwdriver) and an hour and 45 mins to make it. The design part is equal to 20% of the total marks.
EXCEPT
My school dosnt have any money for materials!! So we are not going to actually make ANYTHING! Its a mock exam so no one is that worried, but suppose we did have some metal to make something? If we did then 3 days of this week I should have spent at school in the design block refining my metal manipulation skills, I would of kinda liked that. BUT it wouldnt have happened because this week the design block has no spare timetable slots for us to go in and use equipment!!!
OK
This leaves me with the logical choice of just going in to the IT suite and working on my design of a screwdriver.............. However we are not using CAD for this task it has to be paper, therefore we cant use the IT rooms we have to use the form rooms. Only because we are on study leave our form tutors are away on courses! No form teachers = no one to supervise = no one allowed in the form room!
So I am at home having designed 40 screwdrivers in 3 hours on CAN and then hand copied, job done!
I thought it was totally bonkers and a total waste of my time being at home doing something like this, but actually I got to dust off my soldering iron and do a few mods to my shed and lab. I also started a couple of projects, so for me its been a good week and I have learnt a fair bit. I havnt learnt what I was meant to learn, but learning is learning.
I am lucky in that I dont particularly like sitting about doing nothing, I am not a huge fan of game box's but I do like Mine craft for short periods.
So alot of others in my class have been online gaming etc and generally having a holiday, and that is modern learning today!
I kind of like it as it suites the way I learn
