How to you change their perceptions?
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I was trying to teach some students how to create their own study guide for the state-mandated test that is coming. We went through each unit and discussed what concepts were taught and then I asked them to write it down - out came the phones and click click.
I explained who they would get more out of it by writing it down.
"My handwriting is terrible."
"I can't spell."
"This is faster"
"I will read these when I get home"
"I don't have paper [or pencil]."
"I don't learn when I write it down."
My averages on the first four tests were 32, 36, 43, 25. The tests were identical to the study guides that we went over in class and fairly based on the material covered.
Am I really teaching or am I just enabling?
4 comments:
Decreasing value of and respect for the act of writing things down, the use of pen (or pencil) and paper is a great disappointment.
It is not what you do, it is their choice whether to learn and remembet what you teach.
It is not what you do, it is their choice whether to learn and remembet what you teach.
Either way, I feel that is rather sad.
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