But I try to avoid large meetings with everyone at once. I much prefer private interviews with one or two people, where I can concentrate on a particular aspect of the product.
Yeah, I agree with you there, Beck. I don't need to waste everyone's time when talking to one or two people can get me the information that I need.
I know that most people here work on the "create the product" part of industry, or so it seems, but when you're like me, meetings are a wonderful thing.
I work in sales. The more that I can understand our products, the better of a salesman I can be. I"m not the type of person that will try to make up things because they want products to look good -- instead, I try to be as knowledgeable as I can, because from what I have seen, the more knowledgeable that the buyer sees that I am, the more trusting they are of me, and therefore more willing to buy what I am selling.
I don't spend a large amount of my time in meetings, but at least for me, the meetings that I am a part of, each bit of information that I receive on a product ends up selling at least another few units, so they're great for me.
That's what the History Channel is all about. I watch it as much as I can (which isn't much, b/c I don't have cable or anything at my house) just because I love learning new things.
But it's one of those things that depend on the activity and subject. If you teach something in videos or whatever, there are tons of history or language or geometry things that would go along with it. But reading isn't one of those automated-type activities. Reading is learned simply because you see the use for it and have the desire for it.
Kids don't learn to read because they want a good score. They learn to read because they want attention that only another person can give. I'm sure that there are teachers that can work with this program to help their kids, but without that teacher giving their own individual attention to the kids, no computer program can help a kid read.
We need more of an encouragement to our kids to read. When I was younger (a.k.a. quite a long time ago) in first grade, they gave us all four books to choose to read from and I just happened to pick up the third grade book and just started reading because it was fun. So they put me in an advanced reading class (I went to the 2nd grade class for reading, and my class for everything else). But the reason that I was good at reading is because my parents taught me that reading was fun. Not because of any program.
All we really need is parental involvement and it won't matter what types of computer program or whatever that we're using. If we WANT to learn to read, we'll succeed. If we DON'T want to learn, we'll do what we can do read 2nd grade books when we're older, just like the kids in the parent post.
We complain and try to medicate our kids because they're so easily distracted, and then we place them in environments that encourage and enhance their distractibility.
Yeah, it's just one big conspiracy from the Drug companies:-)
No, but seriously, what it will end up doing is making the easily-distracted moreso and make the not-easily-distracted that much more so as well, making the later group (who would have already been in the productive group of society) more desirable as a business candidate and the former group (already at risk for being not as productive) even in a worse position.
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But I try to avoid large meetings with everyone at once. I much prefer private interviews with one or two people, where I can concentrate on a particular aspect of the product.
Yeah, I agree with you there, Beck. I don't need to waste everyone's time when talking to one or two people can get me the information that I need.
I know that most people here work on the "create the product" part of industry, or so it seems, but when you're like me, meetings are a wonderful thing.
I work in sales. The more that I can understand our products, the better of a salesman I can be. I"m not the type of person that will try to make up things because they want products to look good -- instead, I try to be as knowledgeable as I can, because from what I have seen, the more knowledgeable that the buyer sees that I am, the more trusting they are of me, and therefore more willing to buy what I am selling.
I don't spend a large amount of my time in meetings, but at least for me, the meetings that I am a part of, each bit of information that I receive on a product ends up selling at least another few units, so they're great for me.
I'm against what they did too, but it didn't involve pain and/or fear. They anesthetised them before doing the proceedure.
That's what the History Channel is all about. I watch it as much as I can (which isn't much, b/c I don't have cable or anything at my house) just because I love learning new things.
But it's one of those things that depend on the activity and subject. If you teach something in videos or whatever, there are tons of history or language or geometry things that would go along with it. But reading isn't one of those automated-type activities. Reading is learned simply because you see the use for it and have the desire for it.
Kids don't learn to read because they want a good score. They learn to read because they want attention that only another person can give. I'm sure that there are teachers that can work with this program to help their kids, but without that teacher giving their own individual attention to the kids, no computer program can help a kid read.
We need more of an encouragement to our kids to read. When I was younger (a.k.a. quite a long time ago) in first grade, they gave us all four books to choose to read from and I just happened to pick up the third grade book and just started reading because it was fun. So they put me in an advanced reading class (I went to the 2nd grade class for reading, and my class for everything else). But the reason that I was good at reading is because my parents taught me that reading was fun. Not because of any program.
All we really need is parental involvement and it won't matter what types of computer program or whatever that we're using. If we WANT to learn to read, we'll succeed. If we DON'T want to learn, we'll do what we can do read 2nd grade books when we're older, just like the kids in the parent post.
We complain and try to medicate our kids because they're so easily distracted, and then we place them in environments that encourage and enhance their distractibility.
:-)
Yeah, it's just one big conspiracy from the Drug companies
No, but seriously, what it will end up doing is making the easily-distracted moreso and make the not-easily-distracted that much more so as well, making the later group (who would have already been in the productive group of society) more desirable as a business candidate and the former group (already at risk for being not as productive) even in a worse position.