Subject: Re: When is CL not appropriate?
From: Paul Hertzel (hertzpau@niacc.cc.ia.us)
Date: Tue Jun 20 2000 - 10:22:23 EDT
Jim Borgford-Parnell wrote,
At the same time, we expend enormous time and effort
creating elaborate systems to force people to learn on
their own, to not look over their neighbor's shoulder,
to not talk in class. . .
In the colleges I have taught, the above words would be interpretted
as confusing "learning" with "testing". We expend enormous time
and effort to make sure students test on their own, do not look over
their neighbor's shoulder during tests, do not talk during testing . . .
But we make no such efforts during learning. Studying together is
encouraged, looking sideways during class to see how others have
interpretted activities, and asking questions is encouraged. I have
never been to a college where it was otherwise.
The important distinction, I think, is that the learning (and therefore
the testing of it) really is a personal, individual thing that takes place
inside one's mind, but cooperative methods are encouraged as useful means
toward achieving it.
Paul Hertzel
NIACC
Mason City, IA
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