EDUC 6470 Week 2

Class time

I'm in California, missing class. Am I missing the chance to work into my niche in the classroom? I don't think so, because I know I won't be shy in week 3. But missing an early meeting is the kind of situation that leaves more shy people behind in classes.

Readings

Leonard (2002), citing Lord whom we'll also read this week, draws too black/white distinctions between constructivism and objectivism. (pp. 1-2) I've personally found in teaching, and in the general literature, that much depends on the student, who synthesizes objectivist and constructivist teaching into a set of concepts, understandings, and skills that ranges from well-integrated to external, with things moving back and forth and sojourning in between.

I wonder whether everybody in this course can think of something they learned in each (Meyers and Briggs S.I.F.T.) style? (p. 2)

I want to know more about the "reverse lecture" style published in Leonard 1992. (p. 3)

Lord (2002) makes me wonder what content is. "Professors...should uncover content" isn't good enough for me. If uncovering is to be more than covering, it should allow the student to try different approaches of discovering and recovering (the more prefixes the better).

Sorry to be so grumpy about the readings, which seem to be meant to be inspiring, but again: Shipman may be unscientifically misleading to draw a causal link between lecture format and the poor performance in Sadler & Schneps. My prejudices or proper judgement resonates more with Shipman citing Yager 1983 and AAAS 2001, as sources for criticism of the overburdened curriculum.