RE: [tips] Professor says students can't identify continents on map - Nfld. Labrador - CBC News

2013-01-22 Thread Helweg-Larsen, Marie
I must admit I'm not all the terrified that students can't identify countries 
on a map. I think students should learn how to find the information that they 
need but they don't need to have it all in their heads, necessarily. If you 
want to know more about going to war, or giving aid or free trade (all very 
complicated topic) one minor piece of that might be where the relevant 
countries are located but you could Google that information in about 15 
seconds. You could not Google that quickly the complex historical, economic, 
sociological, etc. consequences of going to war, giving aid, etc. So complex 
thinking is what we should teach. Things that could be looked up should just be 
looked up.

If the geography is important for the sociology professor teaching about the 
family (the original article), she should just show the students (takes a 
minute or two).

Marie

Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor l Department of Psychology
Kaufman 168 l Dickinson College
Phone 717.245.1562 l Fax 717.245.1971
Office hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 10:30-11:30
http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html


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Point taken, Paul. But you don't have to want to stand in the front of the room 
in
order for it to be important to know a few basic things. Especially if you're
going to be asked to vote on questions like: Should we go to war in Asia
(again)? Should we give aid to Africa? Should we have free trade with Europe?
Should we drill in the Arctic? What effect is the war on drugs having on South
America?

Knowledge good. Ignorance bad. That is all.

Chris
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On 2013-01-16, at 2:51 PM, Paul C Bernhardt wrote:


 We are the ones standing in the front of the room... the rest of the folks in 
our classes are outside the room doing other work with their lives. Our 
students are wondering what kind of freaks we are, except for one or two 
students in the class who, one day, will be standing in front of their room. 
When they leave your room they go surf to the Wikipedia page on flags, and 
maybe edit the entries on one or two things they've learned about...

Not everyone wants to be the person in the front of the room.

Paul

On Jan 16, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Christopher Green wrote:








This is true Nancy. But I remember learning maps and flags as a kid because I 
liked them, not because some govt threatened me with a standardized test (or 
even because some teacher decided to include them in the curriculum. Whatever 
happened to the people who just have to know?

Chris
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Department of Psychology
York University
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Canada

chri...@yorku.camailto:chri...@yorku.ca

On Jan 16, 2013, at 12:16 AM, drnanjo drna...@aol.commailto:drna...@aol.com 
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I wonder if it is possibly a reflection of the priorities of our education 
system.

I remember taking Geography in elementary school.

I don't remember having standardized testing on Geography.
But plenty on other subjects.

It it possible that this is one of the side effects of teaching to the test...

It wouldn't surprise me if Geography had been eliminated in most curriculums in 
favor of subjects more likely to command space on standardized tests.

Nancy Melucci
Long Beach City College
Long Beach CA
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Time was that I would give history of psychology students a map test of 
European countries. On average, they got a little over 4 -- usually UK, France, 
Italy, and whatever country their ancestors came from. It got so depressing 
that I stopped. It seems I was expecting way too much. This sociology professor 
finds that her students can't even name continents. Sigh.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/01/14/nl-students-dont-know-geography-115.html


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Re: [tips] Professor says students can't identify continents on map - Nfld. Labrador - CBC News

2013-01-17 Thread Christopher Green
Point taken, Paul. But you don't have to want to stand in the front of the room 
in
order for it to be important to know a few basic things. Especially if you're 
going to be asked to vote on questions like: Should we go to war in Asia 
(again)? Should we give aid to Africa? Should we have free trade with Europe?
Should we drill in the Arctic? What effect is the war on drugs having on 
South 
America?

Knowledge good. Ignorance bad. That is all.

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On 2013-01-16, at 2:51 PM, Paul C Bernhardt wrote:

  We are the ones standing in the front of the room… the rest of the folks in 
 our classes are outside the room doing other work with their lives. Our 
 students are wondering what kind of freaks we are, except for one or two 
 students in the class who, one day, will be standing in front of their room. 
 When they leave your room they go surf to the Wikipedia page on flags, and 
 maybe edit the entries on one or two things they've learned about…
 
 Not everyone wants to be the person in the front of the room.
 
 Paul
 
 On Jan 16, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Christopher Green wrote:
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 This is true Nancy. But I remember learning maps and flags as a kid because 
 I liked them, not because some govt threatened me with a standardized test 
 (or even because some teacher decided to include them in the curriculum. 
 Whatever happened to the people who just have to know?
 
 Chris
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 Department of Psychology
 York University
 Toronto, ON M6C 1G4
 Canada
 
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 On Jan 16, 2013, at 12:16 AM, drnanjo drna...@aol.com wrote:
 
  
  
  
 I wonder if it is possibly a reflection of the priorities of our education 
 system.
  
 I remember taking Geography in elementary school.
  
 I don't remember having standardized testing on Geography.
 But plenty on other subjects.
  
 It it possible that this is one of the side effects of teaching to the 
 test...
  
 It wouldn't surprise me if Geography had been eliminated in most 
 curriculums in favor of subjects more likely to command space on 
 standardized tests.
  
 Nancy Melucci
 Long Beach City College
 Long Beach CA
 -Original Message-
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 Subject: [tips] Professor says students can't identify continents on map - 
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 Time was that I would give history of psychology students a map test of 
 European countries. On average, they got a little over 4 -- usually UK, 
 France, Italy, and whatever country their ancestors came from. It got so 
 depressing that I stopped. It seems I was expecting way too much. This 
 sociology professor finds that her students can't even name continents. 
 Sigh.
 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/01/14/nl-students-dont-know-geography-115.html
 
 
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Re: [tips] Professor says students can't identify continents on map - Nfld. Labrador - CBC News

2013-01-17 Thread Paul C Bernhardt
I am in full agreement on that… sadly, we have a (US) culture that invalidates 
intellectual curiosity in favor of sensationalism and truthiness.

Paul

On Jan 17, 2013, at 8:36 AM, Christopher Green wrote:







Point taken, Paul. But you don't have to want to stand in the front of the room 
in
order for it to be important to know a few basic things. Especially if you're
going to be asked to vote on questions like: Should we go to war in Asia
(again)? Should we give aid to Africa? Should we have free trade with Europe?
Should we drill in the Arctic? What effect is the war on drugs having on South
America?

Knowledge good. Ignorance bad. That is all.

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On 2013-01-16, at 2:51 PM, Paul C Bernhardt wrote:

 We are the ones standing in the front of the room… the rest of the folks in 
our classes are outside the room doing other work with their lives. Our 
students are wondering what kind of freaks we are, except for one or two 
students in the class who, one day, will be standing in front of their room. 
When they leave your room they go surf to the Wikipedia page on flags, and 
maybe edit the entries on one or two things they've learned about…

Not everyone wants to be the person in the front of the room.

Paul

On Jan 16, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Christopher Green wrote:







This is true Nancy. But I remember learning maps and flags as a kid because I 
liked them, not because some govt threatened me with a standardized test (or 
even because some teacher decided to include them in the curriculum. Whatever 
happened to the people who just have to know?

Chris
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Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M6C 1G4
Canada

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On Jan 16, 2013, at 12:16 AM, drnanjo drna...@aol.commailto:drna...@aol.com 
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I wonder if it is possibly a reflection of the priorities of our education 
system.

I remember taking Geography in elementary school.

I don't remember having standardized testing on Geography.
But plenty on other subjects.

It it possible that this is one of the side effects of teaching to the test...

It wouldn't surprise me if Geography had been eliminated in most curriculums in 
favor of subjects more likely to command space on standardized tests.

Nancy Melucci
Long Beach City College
Long Beach CA
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Subject: [tips] Professor says students can't identify continents on map - 
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Time was that I would give history of psychology students a map test of 
European countries. On average, they got a little over 4 -- usually UK, France, 
Italy, and whatever country their ancestors came from. It got so depressing 
that I stopped. It seems I was expecting way too much. This sociology professor 
finds that her students can't even name continents. Sigh.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/01/14/nl-students-dont-know-geography-115.html


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Re: [tips] Professor says students can't identify continents on map - Nfld. Labrador - CBC News

2013-01-16 Thread Christopher Green
This is true Nancy. But I remember learning maps and flags as a kid because I 
liked them, not because some govt threatened me with a standardized test (or 
even because some teacher decided to include them in the curriculum. Whatever 
happened to the people who just have to know?

Chris
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On Jan 16, 2013, at 12:16 AM, drnanjo drna...@aol.com wrote:

  
 
  
 
  
 
 I wonder if it is possibly a reflection of the priorities of our education 
 system.
  
 I remember taking Geography in elementary school.
  
 I don't remember having standardized testing on Geography.
 But plenty on other subjects.
  
 It it possible that this is one of the side effects of teaching to the 
 test...
  
 It wouldn't surprise me if Geography had been eliminated in most curriculums 
 in favor of subjects more likely to command space on standardized tests.
  
 Nancy Melucci
 Long Beach City College
 Long Beach CA
 -Original Message-
 From: Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca
 To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu
 Sent: Tue, Jan 15, 2013 9:11 pm
 Subject: [tips] Professor says students can't identify continents on map - 
 Nfld.  Labrador - CBC News
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 Time was that I would give history of psychology students a map test of 
 European countries. On average, they got a little over 4 -- usually UK, 
 France, Italy, and whatever country their ancestors came from. It got so 
 depressing that I stopped. It seems I was expecting way too much. This 
 sociology professor finds that her students can't even name continents. Sigh.
 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/01/14/nl-students-dont-know-geography-115.html
 
 
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RE: [tips] Professor says students can't identify continents on map - Nfld. Labrador - CBC News

2013-01-16 Thread Marc Carter
Favorite saying from a former colleague in response to my complaints about 
students and their general lack of interest in, well, pretty much anything I 
was interested in:

Remember: they're not like us.

m

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Chair, Department of Behavioral and Health Sciences
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We are the ones standing in the front of the room... the rest of the folks in 
our classes are outside the room doing other work with their lives. Our 
students are wondering what kind of freaks we are, except for one or two 
students in the class who, one day, will be standing in front of their room. 
When they leave your room they go surf to the Wikipedia page on flags, and 
maybe edit the entries on one or two things they've learned about...

Not everyone wants to be the person in the front of the room.

Paul


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re: [tips] Professor says students can't identify continents on map - Nfld. Labrador - CBC News

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Palij
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:11:37 -0800, Christopher Green wrote:
Time was that I would give history of psychology students a map test of
European countries. On average, they got a little over 4 -- usually UK, France,
Italy, and whatever country their ancestors came from. It got so depressing
that I stopped. It seems I was expecting way too much. This sociology professor
finds that her students can't even name continents. Sigh.
 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/01/14/nl-students-dont-know-geography-115.html

Leaving aside issues of unrepresentative sampling and other confounds,
let me ask a basic question:

Aren't you Canadians supposed to be following something like this curriculum:
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/sstudies18curr.pdf

If you do follow such a curriculum, does everyone fail?  Or, if they fail,
they're still given a passing grade for showing up?  On a related note,
does the Canadian school system believe in social promotion?

In NY state there is a comparable curriculum which is supposed to
prepare one for regents exams in high school; see:
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/pub/sscore2.pdf
and
http://eservices.nysed.gov/vls/subjectAreaHome.do;jsessionid=1db93489d1c66494182f794b7ea6f31c1670abaf131d976cc20600d04ce8.e34Tc3mPbx0Sby0Lbh0MaN8Mchv0?lmid=15
and
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/pub/ssovervi.pdf

I'd bet the home schooled kids might be pretty good at geography,
depending upon what kind of curriculum the parents follow (e.g.,
http://www.home-school-curriculum.com/category/world-geography ).
If home schooling is good enough for Marty Seligman's kids... ;-)

-Mike Palij
New York University
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Re: [tips] Professor says students can't identify continents on map - Nfld. Labrador - CBC News

2013-01-16 Thread drnanjo

I liked them also and still do
but then and now we are too small a sample from which to generalize

Nancy M
LBCC


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This is true Nancy. But I remember learning maps and flags as a kid because I 
liked them, not because some govt threatened me with a standardized test (or 
even because some teacher decided to include them in the curriculum. Whatever 
happened to the people who just have to know?


Chris

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I wonder if it is possibly a reflection of the priorities of our education 
system. 
 
I remember taking Geography in elementary school.
 
I don't remember having standardized testing on Geography.
But plenty on other subjects.
 
It it possible that this is one of the side effects of teaching to the test...
 
It wouldn't surprise me if Geography had been eliminated in most curriculums in 
favor of subjects more likely to command space on standardized tests.
 
Nancy Melucci
Long Beach City College
Long Beach CA


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Time was that I would give history of psychology students a map test of 
European countries. On average, they got a little over 4 -- usually UK, France, 
Italy, and whatever country their ancestors came from. It got so depressing 
that I stopped. It seems I was expecting way too much. This sociology professor 
finds that her students can't even name continents. Sigh.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/01/14/nl-students-dont-know-geography-115.html



Chris




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Re: [tips] Professor says students can't identify continents on map - Nfld. Labrador - CBC News

2013-01-15 Thread drnanjo

I wonder if it is possibly a reflection of the priorities of our education 
system. 

I remember taking Geography in elementary school.

I don't remember having standardized testing on Geography.
But plenty on other subjects.

It it possible that this is one of the side effects of teaching to the test...

It wouldn't surprise me if Geography had been eliminated in most curriculums in 
favor of subjects more likely to command space on standardized tests.

Nancy Melucci
Long Beach City College
Long Beach CA


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Time was that I would give history of psychology students a map test of 
European countries. On average, they got a little over 4 -- usually UK, France, 
Italy, and whatever country their ancestors came from. It got so depressing 
that I stopped. It seems I was expecting way too much. This sociology professor 
finds that her students can't even name continents. Sigh.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/01/14/nl-students-dont-know-geography-115.html



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