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Re: What's the Meaning of 'Direct Instruction'? > & 'constructivism'?
Posted:
Mar 18, 2012 6:44 PM
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On Mar 18, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Clyde Greeno wrote [among many other
penetrating things]:
> [...]
> One of the major flaws of collegiate instruction in STEM-fields is
> its failure to educate its graduates in the nature of technical
> definitions ... as opposed to how dictionaries are used with
> respect to commonplace discourse.
> [...]
> the extreme difficulty and low probability of achieving "faultless
> communication" though reliance on formal languages in which the
> receivers are not already very fluent.
> [...]
> So it is seen that the essence of "the math war" [...] actually is
> about whether or not students should achieve theoristic
> mathematical comprehension as personal common sense.
> [...]
> [Of course, in that mode of instruction, the learning cannot go far
> beyond what the teacher knows ... so the teachers had better know
> far more than whatever they teach.]
> [...]
Greeno strikes again!
Best regards
--schremmer
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