[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William J. Foristal) writes:
Hi Jackie,
LOL...you're right, I forgot about how creative students can be in the
pursuit of an assignment. :) Always pushing the window. Perhaps that
could be another area of study. One group of students observing another.
Bill
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998 02:52:07 -0600 Jackie Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>Jackie Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>Hi Bill
>
>I love giving the students these types of assignments. However, you
>can get
>yourself into trouble at times. Students are creative, so you have to
>try
>and foresee why may occur. The big problem area is having them
>observe
>deviance--now, as instructors we are looking for them to observe
>things like
>littering, deviant dress, etc. and other people's reactions to the
>deviance.
>Not students--they want to go to the area of town where "real"
>deviance
>occurs. This also happens if you have them break a norm and capture
>people's
>reactions--you tell students they are to break folkways not laws, but
>you
>know students. But as you say there are a lot of things you can
>assign that
>are easy and "fun learning" for students. I have had them watch
>sit-coms,
>listen to music, and go through magazines advertisements. Keeps them
>out of
>harm's way, I hope. This quarter the Intro students are going to do
>application papers--this assignment sound like no problem, but have
>had a few
>occasions where it could have led to problems. One of the nice things
>about
>computers is the chance to learn from others things that might work in
>teaching, especially teaching abstract concepts.
>
>jackief
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