Thanks for your comment Mohammed! Yes, this was dumb from their side. Teachers should be flexible more than this especially with students coming up with better solutions. They should not kill the ability of getting out of the box solutions, rather they should encourage them to be better learners.

Thanks for your comment. I believe that he is more than a good teacher by doing this. I also took one course last semester from Industrial Engineering department, the instructor was very different in the way he gives lectures. Most of the lectures were closer to discussions rather than typical lectures. I felt that I was not learning by this way. However, at the end of the semester I found that I have learned in this course much better than many other courses in my department (ECE). I don’t know if he is the same instructor as yours, but it seems that the Industrial Engineering department is lucky by having these good instructors.

I actually think it would be interesting to see the youngest students that this structure could be implemented at. Young adults are notoriously bad at voting; I think this is a symptom of the top-down school structure. We simply build up their habits to be passive and defer to others for direction. It would certainly be valuable in directing their education but I think the real value of this class, and something I would like to research, would be if democratically run classrooms create more civically and politically engaged young adults.

While the text may have overemphasized the prevalence of the banking model of education. I think there does have to be a continuum in which content learning takes place and followed by a more narrative learning approach. I feel like most of my teachers tend to teach using both banking and narrative models. Giving the students an opportunity to synthesize and apply what content they just learned.

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Nice post! I completely agree with the point you made we need to know the basics and general facts before we pursue learning in a more discussion and participatory way. I really like the idea of Narrative learning, but we definitely need to find time to learn the basics. Since others may be at different levels of learning the basics as well, when do we switch from banking to narrative learning.

Thank you for the post! Geographic information systems seem like a great tool to enhance learning. Taking advantage of this tool to enhance learning either by way of visualization or to enhanve problem-based learning skills seems to be really effective based on your two examples. Taking students learning from the classroom to guide them to applying their knowledge.

I like his statement “respect for what students know”. It is actually awesome. I remembered when I visit my master’s advisor at the first time, I wanted to show my background to him, so I talked to him about a specific knowledge and he had listened to me like a student. Later, I found that he was an expert in that area but he respected me and allowed me to think that I was teaching him. It was actually a great encouragement for me and helped me to have self-confidence.

Thanks for your blog.
I remembered that we could not use the calculator during my primary school for mathematical exams. It was actually helpful to improve our computation by our own brains. I remember that we could not use the calculator in some high-scholl’s exams either.
We may need to consider issue at least for younger student

Can definitely relate to your story regarding early education experiences. I was lucky to have fantastic teachers through elementary school that pushed me to reach my potential. This set me up to continue being successful through high school. These early teachers were crucial in my development and provided me with the confidence to be successful throughout my entire educational experience (…which continues…).

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