Posted by alexandra_k on May 17, 2014, at 20:16:36
In reply to Re: lectures, posted by alexandra_k on May 17, 2014, at 20:10:02
i suspect i won't do math for summer school after all. not much point, really. i'm not going to continue with math which makes me fairly uninteresting to teach and the spirit of things seems to be to put us in teams and let us teach each other, anyway. and i don't do so well with the whole social learning thing. and they won't give me access to the stuff i need to learn the way i know i learn best because... they think they know how i learn better than i do - go figure. well... i guess the idea is that must be true. otherwise i wouldn't be doing remedial. whatever it was i've been doing before... it must not have been working. mmm hmm. i see. let me waste a semester trying to learn things your way. please. can i...
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not sure what it is with lecturers that they think they are better teachers than textbooks... that have panels of authors and editors... that they feel the need to make things harder than they really are. more complicated than they need to be. to junk up space and time with busywork... i don't know what it is.
do i think the health system is going to be any better?
no.
focus... go print off these tests... work through the problems... become just what they want me to be -- a student who can solve problems but who has no conceptual understanding. the way they... train me to be...
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