I want to follow up on Annette's comment. I think she is correct in her
interpretation, but the question that then immediately came up was:
"Then why should we be giving it all to them?" What do we anticipate the
value of giving students our overheads, outlines, lecture notes, etc. is?
I am concerned that by giving them all this stuff we are switching their
focus away from thinking about the material and onto collecting ("What do
you mean I got a 'D?' I downloaded everything from the web site and taped
all the lectures...") and ignoring the textbook ("What shall I read, the 3
page chapter outline while skiming thru the 10 overheads or the 40 page
chapter?").
Sounding an awful lot like a luddite,
Vinny
Vincent Prohaska
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
Lehman College
Bronx, NY 10468-1589
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Annette Taylor wrote:
> No, I found that my students wanted all of the information. I find that
> it is something akin to students wanting to write down every word from
> a lecture, verbatim, as if that will be essential to good knowledge.
>
> annette
