Designing for learning...

I enjoyed the case study from this past week about the group of students that got together, complained that their instructor was giving them too many writing assignments that they thought had no bearing on that class since the all completed English 101 two years prior.

 It seems to me that a few of the students in my class, empathize with the students, and understandably so, I however, tend to lean more towards the teacher's perspective. If your writing is bad, it needs to be fixed. If you're going into a field that is heavily dependent on your writing... you need more practice.

I spent four years at different art schools in my effort to become an illustrator and graphic designer, the one constant throughout every school, every level was the need for life drawing. Just because I took two years of it as a freshman and sophomore in college, does not automatically make me a character designer or an animator. Drawing figures, much like writing, it a skill that atrophies through lack of use.

While I has probably one of the most hectic schedules I've ever had, I still make every effort to get all my assignments in on time, no matter how many a week there are. Do I make them all the time? No, but that doesn't give me reason to criticize the instructors syllabus.