...which I personally translate as "Save yourself if you can..."*
Here is eduwonk of all people promoting Education through Exploration. It's worth reading the comments. The anti-NCLB comment is pro-education through exploration. That's not an accident.
I haven't seen it nor am I familiar with JASON, but I found Jane Doe's comment quite persuasive. I've seen a number of programs that offer "hands on" crap, with all sorts of gimmicky ideas. Trying to teach "critical thinking" is not entirely unlike an insomniac trying to get to sleep by telling him/herself that he/she MUST get to sleep. Just each the content and ask some questions that require applying the learned and mastered content.
Professor Robert Ballard and the JASON project should make it a little bit more clear that no matter how excited you get about their hands-on projects, if you can't deal with (at least) calculus in college, you will never get your undergraduate degree, let alone get to his graduate degree program in Archaeological Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. Motivation is easy. Teaching is difficult.
I haven't seen it nor am I familiar with JASON, but I found Jane Doe's comment quite persuasive. I've seen a number of programs that offer "hands on" crap, with all sorts of gimmicky ideas. Trying to teach "critical thinking" is not entirely unlike an insomniac trying to get to sleep by telling him/herself that he/she MUST get to sleep. Just each the content and ask some questions that require applying the learned and mastered content.
ReplyDeleteProfessor Robert Ballard and the JASON project should make it a little bit more clear that no matter how excited you get about their hands-on projects, if you can't deal with (at least) calculus in college, you will never get your undergraduate degree, let alone get to his graduate degree program in Archaeological Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. Motivation is easy. Teaching is difficult.
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