The Republic is trying to convince parents and educators to start using the paper in the classroom. Newspapers contain topics that are only interesting to adults written at a level that is only appropriate for children, so I'm pretty skeptical of using them as teaching tools, but that's better said in a later post.
The subject of this post is the ad that the Republic published in order to tout its educational benefits. Here's the ad that appeared on A11 of Monday's Republic. The topic is basketball--which is right up there with the Trojan War in terms of educational significance--but check out the picture. (You may have to click on the picture to enlarge it.)
The caption says "Ohio State is a top contender for the NCAA Men's Division I championship thanks in part to the play of Greg Oden, possibly the best player in college hoops." Now, I'm not a sports guy, but I know that's not a picture of Greg Oden. Actually, I've never heard of Greg Oden, but even I can read the word on the jersey and it looks to me like it says "Florida" in really big letters.
So much for teaching tools.
Picky, picky, picky! (grin)
Posted by: Benson | March 27, 2007 at 12:37 AM
The Arizona Republic and EastValleyTribune.com (and the AzCentral.com blogs) are a never ending source for 5th grade math EDU fodder taught at the community college level.
In the past, I use to predict the outcome of the final four based upon each school's computer science program. (It ended up working out well, but purely by accident).
Example from last year...
http://deru.com/~gdt/computing/bits/2006/03/final4.html
Posted by: Gerald Thurman | March 30, 2007 at 02:30 PM
Greg, have you noticed the increase in spelling errors in AZ Republic since all the cuts in staff. Another one in today's paper:
In the Thursday, April 5, 2007 edition of Arizona Republic, I found this error in the caption of the picture on the Business front page: "Vanessa Martin, who has lived at the SEEDS house for about four months, hopes to one day COUNCIL youths on the dangers of substance abuse. Martin began drinking and using drugs at a young age."
The word, council, is a noun. The verb form required is spelled 'counsel'.
Posted by: ron | April 06, 2007 at 12:39 AM