On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Sriram Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lest some students mis-understand what Nishit is saying here: > > Students are exposed to technology and are students of technology. > Consequentially, their focus remains technology. If they were to see > how technology could be applied, suddenly they'd start to even study > in a different way. > > While working in Nashik, I once taught a COM/DCOM programming course. > Most students had never written much code beyond basic assignments. I > was used to having to deal with that having been a mentor for B.E. > projects. So when I decided to teach the course, I chose to change the > rules a bit. One, every session that we had together comprised of me > telling folks how the topic of the day was applied to solve real world > problems. > > Another different thing was with the assignments : I encouraged > everyone to copy from each other, and to tell me just what they had to > copy and why. It was just fine if the class as a whole sent me a > solution, but individuals could send me separate solutions too. > > This led to a higher degree of collaboration and learning (in my > observation), prompted people to speak up and to ask questions, and to > set out finding parallels in the real world. > > People focus on that which they see in front of them. > > Perhaps it's time for PLUG to try additional things at PLUG meets - > what we take for granted (real world problems), may be new stuff for > students (apply technology to solve real world problems) :) >
Well, this deserves a Hall of Fame. Thanks. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
