Important lessons, that need to be brought back into the Schools.
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I'm gen X and I've always fixed everything I can, I'm really good at it.
I'd like to note that youtube has actually helped me with repair ideas and procedures.
Same, back in the day, we would have bought a book at brick and mortar bookstore. I used to love going into Barnes and Noble - the smell of new books :)
Me at Napa: "Do you have a Chilton or Haynes manual for a 79 F-250?" "Can I use your phone to call the other store?"
Calling your buddy hoping he's home to give you a ride to go grab the book you need you dream of the future hoping one day you can contact someone immediately and find information immediately wherever you are. Working on stuff used to be difficult, now that it's way easier nobody does it.
So very true.
Wow...a classic! ✨
That's what I drove in high-school, I'm kicking myself for not keeping it among quite a few others. I bet all my older frens here have even better "ones that got away". I seen pictures of my dad's cars he had in high-school or just after that made my jaw drop. Pictures of me in diapers climbing around inside my dad's 69 Barracuda or his old GTO...
...And love the Library even more...the smell of old books! 📜📚
Yes 😁
There's two in my town. People going in and out every day. When I went to grab the latest Saunders there was a decent amount of people there of all ages. Smell still in effect.
Haynes and Chilton.
Good for you! 👏
We lament about this throw away society. No repair shops anymore except for auto repair!
Dang that sucks. Where I live there are several other kinds of repair shops. There's more than one that specializes in repairing gaming consoles, smartphones, and retro devices. There's a home appliance repair shop. There is a mower and chainsaw repair shop. There is a couple shoe and boot repair places. There is a vacuum repair place. Pretty cool.
edit: Just checked and there's at least 9 gun smithing/repair shops.
Yes, I forgot phone repair stores and I know of one lawnmower repair shop. 📱
I forgot about you tube…. Amazing resource for learning.
The Internet opened up my Universe more than I could have ever imagined. BUT I also never use GPS driving in my own City. Everything is done by dead reckoning.
I don't have GPS in my car. My wife knows how to use maps. We have a road atlas, as well as city map atlases of the places we go to most often.
Yes...love the Road Atlas! It's amazing how many people can't read a map...
There's a road on the ground and a line on the page. It's not rocket science. But some people just can't get the simple connection.
I will never dispose of my physical maps.
We won't either!
Hubby loves YouTube tutorials for auto repair!
He and I both. I changed my gearbox in Jan. The synchro cones were worn out on 1st and 2nd so I put in a 2nd hand gearbox. Man that was a horrible job in the freezing rain. The old gearbox was also covered in slimy gear oil that had leaked out. one of the gearbox bolts was rusted in and rounded off at the back of the engine and I had to hacksaw through it with my hand in a narrow gap above my head. Took me nearly an hour to cut that bolt.
Your husband will understand.
Me in a nice well lit shop on a seventy degree day with tunes blaring and a fridge full of beverages putting a lift kit on a toy: "I LOVE WORKING ON CARS!!!"
Also me 6 months later it's minus ten degrees out, windy and I'm fighting to install a starter on my truck to get to a jobsite a day late: "I F@!##!$ HATE WORKING ON CARS!!!".
Her husband, you and everyone else understands.
Exactly!
^^^ THIS ^^^
Thanks TNBM. Your Sage support is appreciated.
You forgot gun smithing and firearms training... or is that one covered under conflict resolution?
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Thanks for the chuckle..you're hired to run that department.
Sweet, I'll do my best running the comedy department!
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"This graphic brought to you by AI."
No, because all the words were spelled correctly. AI graphics mangle spellings like they don't matter.
Not anymore. NotebookLM can create similar graphics without error.
I haven't seen any. I did try having it summarize a book I wrote. It got many facts completely wrong. I don't see how it got so confused. It also apparently read only the first 100 pages of the book and didn't mention any of the important information contained in the rest of the book. It spent 90% of its time commenting on the introduction of the book.
Is the graphic incorrect? If you are going to reprimand someone for using AI, why not reprimand them for using magic electric boxes instead of hand writing and drawing a cardboard display containing the same information?
It's not the accuracy of the graphic, it's the irony that it was done with AI while discussing the skills we are losing to the digital age.
Nah, it is way too fuzzy or unclear for it to be Ai. This mees looks like it has been around longer than the constant use of Ai today. But I could be wrong.
I heartily approve all of these!
You've got a big heart. Thanks.
Ah, it looks like you would like more info on homeschooling, OP.
If parents followed, some recommend homeschooling curriculum that was vital learning to grow a strong Adult. I'd create a paid program, based on successful results. Also, I'd encourage, an assembly of children a few times a month.
Now do our edumacation system....
Other than math and writing, most of these were never taught in schools. Parents need to teach the rest of it, and teach their kids to value it. Since most of the population lives in big cities, there is a great divide between city and country dwellers in this respect. And, I agree, to would be great to see all of this taught in schools.
My Grand knew home address, both grandparents home addresses and phone numbers (plus, my tablet passcode she learned by looking over my shoulder one day.. ) by the time she was 5. Now, we just found out she just passed early placement exam for pre-algebra for next year (6 grade). I think I am going to quiz her on each of the topics that use to be common knowledge there, just to see what has come onto her radar and what, she is in the dark about. I am going to guess, Food prep (jaring/drying/storage) and medical beyond, cleaning and a band aid are subjects she dont know.. I agree !!!!->MOST of all that core knowledge, she has learned from home or family in general, not school however, no child is equal in their core abilities and interests, think we just got lucky with this one, she wants to create the world around her instead of just passively watching and enjoying what others have created. We have never forced things on her since birth but, we (as in parents/grandparents/uncles/aunts have encouraged her to participate, help mom to cook, learn how to plant home garden and herbs, have a problem? figure out a solution for it and ask if you need help doing so. Break something? can it be fixed? Here is some clay, what can you create with it, want to learn to sew a beach bag for summer, lets go find some cloth that you like! At 6yrs she wanted to make an umbrella for a homeless sleeping in the hot sun.. out of her mouth, MAKE a special one that provides shade but, they can carry around easy.. not buy one.. <- this sort of problem/solution thinking instead of just buy buy buy.. lol. Bonus: Her choir class just sang the national anthem for their town's high school foot ball home game, was great to see!
Not all is lost out there!
I remember when I assigned some simple poem memorization to my 2nd graders. Holy Moly did I get push back from parents! I wasn’t expecting THAT! I had to drop it. This was in the late 1980’s.
Things used to be so much better. Even though the cabal ruled the world, and all elections were stolen and fraudulent, and everyone was vaxxed, one thing we all seem to agree on is that our lives and educations were better.
Naturally, the powers that be did not deem it necessary then to undermine our lives and education.
Many movies that depict the status quo had them encouraging us to have children for the benefit of the machine. Nowadays, it is the opposite.
Bring back censorship like Hays Code and the Catholic Legion of Decency!
I would replace memory retention with recollection.
I would take it a step further and teach Blooms cognitive learning taxonomies as it provides the blueprint for developing expertise.
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Best we can do is gay books in the library
This is the first AI gen meme I've even seen without misspellings galore.
Mental Math in the UK before our currency went decimal used to be problematic for tourists, working out 11/3d away from 19/10d used to be easy for me as a tadpole, but now?
Add “making fliers like this one because why bother when Ai can do it” to the list.
Done.
Here’s some more things they no longer teach to boys in school. (23:29). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JmoQCKcHS8
I remember being taught these.
the memory retention is one i can feel slipping day by day, it really started with phones, writing shopping lists and things i need to do in my notes and using calculator etc. :/
Now with AI, it's only gonna get worse as demand for convenience grows. Probably Alzheimers rates in later life too...
Welcome to Idiocracy!!
MAP READING. My son cannot remember how to get home. 16 learned to drive. STILL CANNOT GET HOME. I'm at my wits end. Why don't you know how to get home??? I have tried everything. Unless the stupid phone tells him he can't figure it out?
Mental math - Last week there were two 10 -12 year olds having a discussion in the grocery store about a sports drink advertized as 2 for $7. I asked them how much would one cost and they couldn't figure it out. One said, "$3.99?" We have a lot of work to do, to clean up this mess.
I think the message to get out there is, at a basic level, the economy needs to be improved so more people have the leisure time to master these skills
otherwise some of these are practically obsolete at times depending on the person's way of life, and people just don't have the money / time to allocate to them compared to other things
Like with gardening, you need land, and there is currently a lack of affordable housing; so, address housing issues and then people would have more resources to even try making their own garden
etc.
If the economy were to get the biggest and best it has ever been, these skills would be lost even faster.A poor economy makes people find ways to survive.
So countries with worse economies make smarter people. Or just people that learn to do with less and less until they are like Cuba.
MAPA?
edit: also, I'll point out that people are surviving. Longer than in previous generations.