Comments on: The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out http://blog.weflyspitfires.com/2009/07/04/the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out/ A blog about MMORPGs like World of Warcraft (WoW) and Everquest 2 (EQ2) Sat, 18 May 2013 23:06:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tesh http://blog.weflyspitfires.com/2009/07/04/the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out/comment-page-1/#comment-8365 Tesh Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:56:14 +0000 http://blog.weflyspitfires.com/?p=988#comment-8365 I must stress that learning is a spectrum. Rote memorization is at one end, fuzzy feel-good fluff like Investigations math is at the other. Both are detrimental to actual intellectual development. The truth is somewhere in the middle; we need to know "what" and we need to know "why" and "how". They don't make sense without each other. I must stress that learning is a spectrum. Rote memorization is at one end, fuzzy feel-good fluff like Investigations math is at the other. Both are detrimental to actual intellectual development. The truth is somewhere in the middle; we need to know “what” and we need to know “why” and “how”. They don’t make sense without each other.

]]> By: Gordon http://blog.weflyspitfires.com/2009/07/04/the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out/comment-page-1/#comment-8364 Gordon Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:53:37 +0000 http://blog.weflyspitfires.com/?p=988#comment-8364 @Beej I heard that Stephen King book was excellent. I think a friend of mine has read it. I'll need to check it out as obviously I love writing and I like Stephen King. Sounds like the perfect combination to me :) @Beej I heard that Stephen King book was excellent. I think a friend of mine has read it. I’ll need to check it out as obviously I love writing and I like Stephen King. Sounds like the perfect combination to me :)

]]> By: Beej http://blog.weflyspitfires.com/2009/07/04/the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out/comment-page-1/#comment-8360 Beej Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:50:29 +0000 http://blog.weflyspitfires.com/?p=988#comment-8360 As sad as it might sound, one of the books that changed my life (or at the very least, my way of thinking about academics and language) was Stephen King's "On Writing." It sounds like it did the same thing for me this one seemed to do for you. I even use an essay in my classes now called "What Writing Is" to get my students thinking about exactly why they're having to endure me for 16 weeks at a time. If you've not read it, I suggest it. So hey, it's another book suggestion! I might have to check this one out. Anything that talks about getting rid of the ridiculous notion that rote memorization is learning. It's not. I learned a very interesting fact at a Core Curriculum Assessment Workshop this May: students only retain 20% of a course, and that 20% is entirely up to the teacher. The more you stress one aspect, the less they pay attention to another. With that in mind, my next few classes are going to be interesting... As sad as it might sound, one of the books that changed my life (or at the very least, my way of thinking about academics and language) was Stephen King’s “On Writing.” It sounds like it did the same thing for me this one seemed to do for you. I even use an essay in my classes now called “What Writing Is” to get my students thinking about exactly why they’re having to endure me for 16 weeks at a time. If you’ve not read it, I suggest it. So hey, it’s another book suggestion!

I might have to check this one out. Anything that talks about getting rid of the ridiculous notion that rote memorization is learning. It’s not. I learned a very interesting fact at a Core Curriculum Assessment Workshop this May: students only retain 20% of a course, and that 20% is entirely up to the teacher. The more you stress one aspect, the less they pay attention to another. With that in mind, my next few classes are going to be interesting…

]]>