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Re: Learning While Black
Posted:
Sep 26, 2008 5:19 PM
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At 09:08 AM 9/26/2008, Pam wrote:
>Posted: Sep 26, 2008 10:31 AM by Dom:
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> > I would guess that Stuben would teach her prepared
> > lessons in order for "constructing meaning" to occur.
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>As someone who prepares all my own lessons and does not work from a
>textbook, it occurs to me that far more important than how she
>teaches is her own increased ability to construct meaning that comes
>from developing lessons versus following a lesson someone else has
>prepared. Developing lessons from scratch also allows one to be
>more flexible and instantly responsive to how the class is
>"constructing meaning", making adjustments as necessary.
The real problem is the so-called Constructivists who have
specialized the language to mean something artificially specific. Of
course students' brains have to construct meaning; we are no closer
to "downloading" from one brain to another than we were before the
word was coined. The problem is to conclude from that correct
assumption that knowledgeable teachers and good teaching are asleep
not critically important in that process for nearly all students.
Incidentally, we have been passing along a misspelling of Lisa Suben's name.
Wayne
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