Just got back from another tantalizing morning at Pacific. Today's class taught us the valuable lesson of nothing courtesy of our technology dept. But I'm not bitter. How many of us took a "required" class in order to achieve a future position? Probably everyone. A year later, not only do you not remember anything, but the whole fact that you took it exists only as a line-item on your transcript. Beautiful right?
It's not that the teacher is a dolt or even impersonal. He's really into his subject matter. His delivery methods are unique and thought out. So what's missing? Relevance? Variety?
I'm tired of teaching in a padded room. Somebody whip us into shape! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! The biggest problem with my Wednesday class is that the structure of it is set up just like every other class. It fits nicely into the mold of "just sit there and let me barf information on you." 15 minutes later, you're surfing the web thinking about the sandwich baggies you still need to pick up because they're on-sale at Target.
The over-arching generalized problem with technology, is that if you're learning about a topic, you need to be experiencing it too. Tutorials would be an upgrade. We had one nice project in this class so far, but we have no background to elaborate on anything. As a class, we're collectively mouth-cuffed. It's not we're uneducated people either. This is a master's level group of individuals. We didn't jump through all the forcefields and rings of fire to get here just to be taught in the same generic way that the teacher's of old used to do.
For crying out loud, can anyone dust off these lesson plans? Where's the creativity? Where's the: this doesn't seem like work, it's so much fun? That's how it should be right? Where's the rolemodels? Those were the best classes. And, until I start seeing educators walk the talk, I'm thinking: Wendy's.
YO!
