Its about TIME we change our TEACHING methods
By raven66
@raven66 (335)
Canada
December 8, 2008 2:44pm CST
Yesterday I read a very interesting article written by a student in K,C. University.
In fact in you got on You Tube and search " Digital Ethnography " and take your time and investigate this project you will begin to see that it really makes lots of sense.
I mean with all our technology today I think its about time we STOP the BORING 150+ students Class Lectures.. which young people find so unproductive and very uncreative.
what do you think?
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4 responses
@luvandpower (2048)
• United States
8 Dec 08
this is one of those questions somewhat like the question
to study or not to study
or
to go to class or not to go to class.
i personally dont want to go to class if i can't have fun while learning. i can't listen to some monotone teacher either. so what i do is i will record their lecture ( if they allow me to) and i just change the way they speak :)
@luvandpower (2048)
• United States
8 Dec 08
i live in america, and i fully agree though..i mean i am currently in college...the professors need to chill...live some...maybe smoke something before they come to class. they just need to loosen up joke a little. maybe if they made the classes more modulized it would help. but oh wait that would cost moeny. and schools dont like to spend money on us. heh never happen, but good discussion.
@cbreeze (1205)
• United States
24 Dec 08
I think our methods of teaching and our school systems are antiquated. I would be very interested in seeing what this student has to say. You always hear all this hype about education in America. But I say it needs a major overhaul. Maybe scrapped and rebuilt all together. We keep trying to put a patch or new spin on a system that is long out of date and wondering why American students are falling behind in the world. Education needs a fresh approach.
@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
30 Dec 08
Every time innovation is introduced in the schools, there's some sort of budget problem that wipes it out. Here in Florida, we are 47th of the 50 states in expenditures per student, and the budgets are being slashed to the bone again at this time. Without money to support innovation, experimentation and alternative progras, school must become more regimented and unbending, for lack of options. We teachers are often blamed for how poorly the kids do on tests when failure is built into the program in amny, many ways. We blame teachers for the dropout rate, but if the "leaders who know better" would leave us along and let us do what we know we should be doing, kids would be far more successfl, so they wouldn't drop out or tune out of the 53rd repetition of skills practice for tests they've already passed, or which are shoved down the kids' throats so hard, they fail in total fear! Schools could do so much more, so much better, ut the system isn't set up to allow for any creativity.
