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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04
Wow, I see a whole lot of excuses here. It's a two minute video. Most everyone has a video camera in their pocket right now. There are various free video editing software suites for educational use. Even if you don't meet during the summer, there were 3 months from Sept to now to get something together.
If it wasn't a priority, that's fine, but don't blame FIRST or Dean if you didn't get your homework done. Blame yourself.
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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04
I don't know. It seems that way: there was no reward for doing it, it wasn't mandatory, it wasn't advertised. The time frame was all wrong, etc.
Maybe, this whole thread just rubs me the wrong way. I teach and hear excuses about not getting homework done. Some of the posts here reminded me of my students.
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I don't get it: did the fact that it was called "homework" imply to you that it was the same as homework from school, and should thus have been given equal regard? I don't think that's a well-founded presumption.
The rationale for doing
any kind of homework should be a clear connection to greater understanding, future accomplishments and perhaps even societal benefit in general—not merely the fact that some authority figure said to do it. In that frame of mind, there are plenty of good reasons not to do homework—if it can be expected that greater benefits accrue from those alternative activities.
If the homework wasn't sufficiently related to the mutual objectives of FIRST and the teams, or untimely, or uninteresting, then we should by all means blame the parties actually responsible, whether they be FIRST's leaders, our teammates or ourselves.