Slackers Anonymous

If you're reading this post, you're already in the club.

Lucky for you this organization isn't nit-picky or anything. In fact, now that I think about it, everyone is a bonafied member of Slackers Anonymous. If you are a registered human from the planet Earth, you are automatically inducted into this club. If you are an extra-terrestrial reading this blog, get off my planet--I already called dibs.

Let me give you a quick example of how the human race is nothing but a bunch of slackers. In class for Tech Ed., one of our required texts was this Power Point booklet thingy. We were supposed to have already purchased it from the College Textbook Abyss (more commonly called the money-grubbers). Anyways, guess how many students had the book? 2. Oh, and in case you're wondering, those 2 students ain't human. Trust me, they ain't normal--I know these things. I have an on-line degree bought on e-Bay.


Power Point was something I mastered in high school. No, I wasn't a child prodigy or anything (but only because I didn't want to blow my cover). If a bunch of hormone frenzied teenagers can do it, it's not hard. I remember being assigned to do a PowerPoint presentation of the attractions of Panama. All I had to do was browse the Internet, find a bunch of websites showing the native Amazon women of Panama, and then copied/pasted the most risque pictures of them on a slideshow . I got an A+ (Dad was proud, Mom disowned me).

Given the fact that it is not a hard thing to do (creating a Power Point presentation, that is), that in and of itself is a clue as to how a teacher might use it in class. Admit it you educators--if a student finds an assignment too hard, it's difficult to get them to do even look at it. However, the ease of the assignment just draws them in--especially when you tell them that they can use the slideshow to teach.

Wait, what? The student teach? Isn't that a reversal of the roles? Actually, it's what they want sometimes. Be honest, how many times do you educators hear "Why are we learning this?" That's a clue that they'd rather be learning about something else. If that isn't a big enough clue, maybe the dozing in class or the short attention spans will make it clear to you. Oh look--Shiny object!


Where was I? Oh yeah, I was making a point. That point is when a person teaches, they have to already know the lesson. Do you get where I'm going with this? If you are like me, then you love tricking the students into learning something. No one said they had to know about it, did they? I, for one, am now an expert on Amazon Women from Panama. I even went to get a degree in that field at a Yard Sale.