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Yeah, too bad we don't have some portable web text format where professor can write his thoughts and share them with everybody before the class itself, so stude

• dctoedt 4y ago
  > so students will just ask additional questions during the class LOL - if only students could be depended on to, you know, actually ask questions during class! The better approach: The professor poses (pre-written) questions to the class and tells the students, "turn to your neighbor and see what you think"; then, the professor calls on a group to answer. (See the example at § 2.2.3, "Homework review - signature block at https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/#Day02 https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/#Day02.) To be sure, this approach is initially more work for the instructor. But it seems to significantly increase audience engagement. Over time, the instructor builds up a question bank that can be selectively re-used.
  • alar44 4y ago
    If they don't that's their fault.
    • dctoedt 4y ago
      Doctors say, you take your patient as you find him- or her. Same with teachers and students: as a teacher it’s my job to be the adult in the room, to try to figure out how to get the knowledge into the student’s brain, not the other way around. I might not succeed but I have to keep trying.