[Phys-L] Re: Aristotelian thinking among modern students
From: Joel.Rauber at SDSTATE.EDU (Rauber, Joel)
Date: Fri Oct 21 09:29:56 2005
Rick, how would you know the reading skills are bad ;-)
Students have to actually read the book to find out if the skills are
bad or not.
(a bit of a vent on my part, I suppose, but that is what the "teacher's
lounge" err, umm Phys-L is for in part.)
More seriously, I had a student in my office Wednesday, who is
struggling and actually asked me with a straight face if I thought it
would be helpful if they started reading the sections in the textbook.
________________________
Joel Rauber
Department of Physics - SDSU
Joel.Rauber@sdstate.edu
605-688-4293
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| [mailto:PHYS-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Tarara
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| Subject: Re: Aristotelian thinking among modern students
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| Good luck with that! ;-( Student reading skills are so poor, and
| reading science texts even worse. If you want to be sure
| they actually
| are getting something that's in the text, the workbook better
| cover it, or you better 'lecture' (I'd prefer 'discuss') it.
|
| Rick
|
|
| > If you require students to read and don't lecture, you
| can do lots
| > of wonderful whiteboard discourse with the workbook.
| >
|
| > Dan M
| >
|