That's such a GenY response, AG... :) The student does need to do the
bookwork so that when the exam comes along, the problems they face are
not unfamilar - and thus can be completed in the allotted time*.
Seriously, though, the teacher can only ever hope to teach how to learn
- if they can do that, they have done their job - WELL!
What is of real value is to be able to understand a problem - not to
know how to select a correct spanner, but to understand that a need for
a tool that mates with the bolt/nut even exists... If you don't got it,
you just don't got it! (and I didn't 'got' it either - but I'm lucky I
can read, and focus on something for more than 30 minutes - though that
ability is fading with age - good job my beard is grey these days - the
'elder effect' has it's uses!).
davidt
* "get your bookwork up to speed" was the best advice I could give my
kids for high school, and they bloody well ignored it!
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 09:02:27AM -0600, Ken Norton wrote:
> Homework is one of the most misused and misunderstood learning tools.
> Frankly, the only reason for homework is to develop "muscle memory".
> Otherwise, it's just busy work. As a teaching tool, it is worthless.
> Homework is no substitute for quality teaching. If the teacher can't
> communicate the lesson to the student, no amount of homework is going
> to make up for the deficit.
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
|