Feb 29th, 2008
THING 4: Blogging Begins with Reading
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Why I Don’t Assign Homework by Mr. Meyer was the first blog I read. I dont believe this philosophy was around in my school days. Not sure what the difference would be in myself one way or another? I beleive it has alot of practicality, and some great philosophy. I am very doubtful that it can be defined as useable 100% of the time. Math is the example I see as the biggest example. Math students basically excell in math from application. It is difficult to perfect a habit to just study for a math test. A student may not know if he/she can do a problem till they hands on try the problem. As an instructor it would be a concern about the amount of class time class dedicaded to problems in class. I do believe supervised study helps the student stay on the proper track, and not build wrong techniques. I didnt want to sound quite so negative, since I do believe Mr. Meyer has a great application to instruction. I have not, however pictured how I could get to the place where I could claim the same about ” no homework”.
The next bog I read was The Ripe Enviorment was very appealing. I believe that all the “tools” and all the “knowledge” doesnt make the perfect application. Ensuring that the enviorment is good for learning must be kept high on the list of things to do to ensure learning. If you find the perfect aplication for you,in your subject, with you particular age and type student it will not work 100% across the board in every other classroom. This author broke down some great targets of how to aply your skills, tools, and knowledge, to achieve our common goal of teaching. Our goal in other words is keeping your “eye on the ball” by never forgetting the purpose is teaching the students in a way that they interact, think for themselves, and retain the information. I also liked on the list #4 and am interested in an elaboration of that thought and how he/she would aply that. In all it could be a list (if I was a teacher) I could picture putting up as a occassional check list of making sure I was Teaching.
