Re: [FCARFORUM] Sentinel Column 7/17/04

[QCao009@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/18/04 12:05:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
yaciw@earthlink.net writes:

Of  course, kids raised on today's textocracy will hate it, at first. I used
a  similar assignment in a business communications class, forcing students  to
create projects for a company they invented and designed. At first,  most
hated it, being used to having too-exact assignments that failed  to
challenge them. However, by semester's end, most admitted they'd  learned
more about the role of business communications than they'd ever  thought
possible.



Marion & Brent:
 
This is why test-driven and teacher-driven teaching are on an  inevitable 
collision course.  Students can choose to learn how to  bubble and become adept 
at picking right multiple choice answers and not  necessarily learn much, or 
they can choose to carefully listen, read, digest  information, form a 
hypothesis, ask questions and arrive at new questions to  guide them through life.
 
The second kind of learning  is premised on touching and  teaching.  The 
first can be done with half-awake, half-drugged out, totally  bored involvement.   
That way, when a student is ready to make an  "informed choice" about life, 
all he/she has to do is to decide on how much more  to drink, what drug to 
sniff, and if to show up for a National Guard assignment  in Alabama.  
 
No guts, no glory!  No grace, no redemption either!  But lots of  wandering 
and talking in the wilderness to lots of burning bushes!!!
 
Quan