Archive for the 'Comments on Class' Category

Economics in the Classroom

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Greetings,
I was asked to respond to a Kincheloe article and the curriculum of my area regarding economics.  This is how I responded.
If I were asked to teach students the fundamentals of economics, I think my classroom would be constructed in the same manner as I would construct any other classroom. I would attempt promote greater understanding of [...]

Presentation Review

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Greetings,
This past week, in my education class, we have performed a lesson on a “controversial subject.”  Along with this, we are required to think on one of them and provide comments on another lesson.
The presentation regarding the McDonaldization of college degrees was very interesting to me.  First off, I want to know where my toy [...]

Chappelle Show

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Greetings,
Today in my TE class we watched a selection of Dave Chappelle in “Inside the Actors Studio”.  We were told to respond to these three questions.
 
“I wasn’t crazy, but it’s incredibly stressful. And I felt like in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because, when you’re a guy that generates [...]

Indoctrination anybody?

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Greetings,
It has been a busy day for me today.  Here is another Q-and-A session.
Classmate C asks:
“Here’s a question….should we indoctrinate our students or not? How do you make sense of this question?”
From my understanding, I believe that indoctrination of a student would be “pounding of a certain belief or set of beliefs into their head” (for lack [...]

What is the purpose?

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Greetings,
As with the last post, this is a question posed by a classmate, in which I responded to on the message board that our class has set up. I believe posting these Q-and-A sessions on this medium will shed some light on my psyche and might, if this is done properly, show how I have [...]

Answering a classmate’s Question

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Greetings,
In my current class, this question came up on our online message board. I have cleaned up my response a little bit, and added hard breaks where they didn’t show up in my actual response.
Classmate A asked:
“This is something I wanted to bring up in class in relation to the readings but, since we are [...]