An Open Letter to Educators
Both Morgan Bayda and Dan Brown talked about how college is so expensive. And these days there is sometimes a waste of money, because the students pay and leave the class without learning anything. This is a recurring event nowadays and should be observed a lot more. I have experienced this a couple times. I felt like in one class we did not do enough work and I felt like I did not learn anything. And in the other we did to much work and I was always in a hurry to get the work done that I did not even pay attention to what I was doing. Mr. Brown's video also showed that students are paying for something that they can get for free. This is do to the lack of technological upgrades by institutions.
Don't Let Them Take Pencils Home
This post was interesting to read, because it said that if students take pencils home then there test scores will be lower. This was figured out by some tests. And the whole time during the post the teacher is focusing on the problem rather then the solution. I believe this is true of teachers that they worry to much about the problem and never try to fix the problem or come up with a solution.
Brent, this post was good on the Bayda part, but for the Johnson part:
ReplyDeleteFrom Dr. Strange: It seems that you did not understand that Tom Johnspn's post Don't Let Them Take the Pencils Home was a metaphor in which pencils were computers. I will complete my post Metaphors: What They Are and Why We Use Them (A Learning Opportunity) later this week. After this post appears on the Class Blog you will be required to leave a comment. Watch the Class Blog for further instructions.
Brent I totally agree with your points that some classes seem to be a total waste of time. There seem to be some teachers that only seem to be concerned with covering the required material and you have to get it in the amount of time they have to teach it.
ReplyDeleteOn the second post, the main point that I got out of it was the teachers, one was focused on the problem and the other was focused on the solution. I hope that one day I'll be the type of teacher that focuses on the solution.