tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post7523860528773681069..comments2024-01-19T04:29:08.081-06:00Comments on subrealism: physicists seek to lose the lecture as teaching toolUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-74050773200384015182012-01-09T00:21:08.223-06:002012-01-09T00:21:08.223-06:00Weekly trips to the lyceum at the local university...Weekly trips to the lyceum at the local university were common for many students K-12 at my hometown schools.<br />We would have to sit through three hour long lectures which were broken up by tests given about every forty-five minutes.<br />We had to then trade tests (which had no ones names on them) and then had to answer the review aloud from the test sheets in front of us.<br />An incorrect answer may not have been the same as the one we gave but it was worked out by the entire class until everyone understood what the person giving that answer was thinking.<br />The only tests which were graded were the ones given at the end of each night.<br />Later semester-long classes (7-12) counted as a half-credit at the university.<br />I actually liked going to these lectures and was way ahead of many others when I finally went off to school because we'd been going to college since the seventh grade.Uglyblackjohnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-80729363935820318332012-01-05T08:46:25.982-06:002012-01-05T08:46:25.982-06:00The degree of silo-ization that I've witnessed...The degree of silo-ization that I've witnessed in Kansas City is so severe that it absolutely hobbles what would/could otherwise be an economic powerhouse. The collaborative education piece is an inevitability due to the unsustainable overhead involved with maintaining multiple self-contained and extraordinarily redundant school district administrations, operations, physical plants and infrastructures. <br /><br />He or she who gets out ahead of that with a turn-key professional services offering designed to assist multiple districts with consolidation and streamlining while offering state of the art curriculum will win on a massive scale in the U.S., not to mention, enjoy an enviable level of influence wrt shaping the instructional methodology.CNuhttp://subrealism.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-73334325504177617012012-01-05T08:02:22.842-06:002012-01-05T08:02:22.842-06:00In addition, I don't see either happening with...In addition, I don't see either happening with the current education system (deliberately designed to eliminate creative thinking) nor with capitalism driving science. Collaborative education led by autodidacts and a complete move to open-source science, hell, open-source everything economic system - true democracy.Dale Asberryhttp://life-abundantly.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-43668623842952549982012-01-05T07:12:51.377-06:002012-01-05T07:12:51.377-06:00I don't see how we get across the next sci-tec...I don't see how we get across the next sci-tech thresholds short of intensive collaborative effort (starting as early in the learning process as possible) and I don't see us getting across some even more acute species/environmental thresholds if we fail to get across some of these critical sci-tech "barriers".CNuhttp://subrealism.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-75508246386920961722012-01-05T07:02:33.969-06:002012-01-05T07:02:33.969-06:00In school, two friends and I had very hectic sched...In school, two friends and I had very hectic schedules and simply didn't have the time to complete the assignments on our own. We would work what problems we understood overnight and then get together in one of the physics study rooms to work through the problems we didn't understand. Sometimes none of us could solve the problem and we'd get the Prof or a grad student to help (although we went to a large Division I school, that school prides itself on the openness and availability of it's faculty). Eventually all the physics majors of the same year joined us and we had to move into a larger space - the faculty conference room or an advanced lab. Each of us would get up (or break out into groups) and explain our answers because we figured out we remembered the material better if we explained it to someone else. Surprisingly none of the classes following us did this. I'll also say that my own performance suffered in the more obscure classes such as semiconductor physics since there were so few of us in the class participating in the study sessions. What was particularly cool was that several profs would hang out with us between classes prepping, grading and what-not.Dale Asberryhttp://life-abundantly.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com