>>> Dr. Frank Pecchioni <fpecchio@pop.jcc.uky.edu> 02/18 3:57 PM >>>
A response to Bret Taylor's recent message:
>
>We came up with two observations.
>
>1. It seems like there is more and more prevalent a philosophy that a
>student should be able to take one of two paths in order to pass a class:
>learn the material or "jump through hoops."
I'm not so sure this is a philosophical response -- that is, I hear few
voices raised in support of the propriety of this sort of thing. I do =
hear
many faculty (myself included) trying such devices in a desparate attempt
to get _some_ response from students. So many students have been trained,
for twelve years or more, to be completeley passive (I see them waiting =
for
an elevator; no one pushes the button). The hope that such a student =
might
sit down, work some problems, and decide "I should ask about . . ." is
clearly groundless.
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