Lectures Part 1:
His first post was about lectures. He mentioned several different lectures and gave links to view them. He raised questions like why are lectures useful, why abandon lectures, What would be better and What are the impediments to achieving a better replacement for lectures? He gave examples under each topic. For the first one here is an example,Lectures are efficient in reducing the costs of educational institutions. They enable one instructor to produce large numbers of credit hours. Since educational institutions charge for credit hours, lectures are “cost effective.” In the second topic here is an example,Students often find them boring and a waste of time.Video presentations can break the limitations that lectures have since they are fixed in time and place.Here is an example for the third topic,The use of products such as iBooks that combine audio, video, graphics, pictures and text into one delivery mechanism (Lindsay). An example for the fourth topic,Technology plays a central role in all suggestions for change. The costs are often seen as a significant impediment to change.
My Response:
Dr. Strange
I strongly agree with what you have said about lectures. Me personally I hate having to go to a class where my instructor reads straight from the power point or straight from their lecture notes.I would rather them be more interesting and actually show me why the material they are teaching is important and how it will be useful in my daily lifestyle rather than them just reading me what they think about the subject. This is my first time in a class such as EDM310, where you are basically your own teacher and have to teach yourself the tools you will need to teach your future students. Although your class is kind of tough, it is preparing us for the future and helping us further our knowledge in technology. Technology is constantly changing and we should always stay up to date as teachers. We hold the key to someone's educational experience. With that in mind, I think we should want to do the best we can and learn as much as possible so we can fill their minds with more knowledge than what they came to us with. I look forward to becoming a teacher and using some of the tools I have learned in this class.
Thanks,
Joy Eady Facts Dr. Strange's last post was about facts. Many students tell me "It is easy to find someone's opinion about a topic on the internet but finding the actual facts isn't as easy." Correct. In fact we should be as skeptical of "facts" as of opinions. It is the thinking process that I see as critical for an educated person. If we merely dispense "facts" - our facts - then we fail as educators. If we only test for facts, we are doing our students a great disservice. We probably should not test for a knowledge of "facts" at all! My Response Dr. Strange, I agree with you that you never really know is something is a fact or an opinion. There are so many people out there thinking they know the actual facts and posting them to the web, when actually it is basically just their own opinion of what they that the fact is. It is really easy to find people's opinion on the internet, but to actually find the facts is quite difficult. You have so many different answers to certain questions you present on the web. I also agree that students should actually learn more about a specific date, then actually just memorizing the date and only one thing that took place that day. I also think the thinking process is critical for any person. You should always want to know more about a certain subject or idea. Be curious and research more in depth things you are unsure about. This will help students out in the long run, it pays to be curious. I also think students should not be tested on facts, cause who is to say what the real fact actually is; there could be many different opinions on answers to certain fact questions.
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