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- Tell about your involvement in education, and your ideals for collegial sharing
- I'm an undergrad at Columbia University, majoring in psychology and minoring in education. I work for Teachers College's web channel AfterEd.TV producing videos and making music.
- About Me:
- I'm from Six Nations, Ontario, Canada originally. I was educated as a non-formal free range child. I've been living in New York since 2004. I've been a web designer, bar tender, dish washer, computer technologist, cafe tender, Barnes and Nobles employee, graphics designer, musician and composer.
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- http://aftered.tv/
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After Ed is awesome. Are you or any of your gang going to be joining in on some of our discussions here? Have you got any new recruits for us?
We're still featuring your show on the front page. Would love to have some discussion as well!
I'm crazy about AfterEd.TV!!! Such a pleasure to be associated with such creative, vibrant, outgoing, make-a-difference people!
Thanks for the note on my wall.
Hey, I'm reading Remix by Lawrence Lessig, and the book is strongly affecting the way I'm thinking about copyright issues (music, for instance) in this age. Have you read it? I really, really want to talk about it! Half-way through now, will finish this week. It just keeps getting MORE interesting! Let me know what you hear about the book, and whether you'd like to go through it together.
But, I was actually asking about your first hint, the case method used in law, and more to the point, in MBA (business) school.
Your answer, that your professors don't use it, is actually what I was looking to confirm.
Here's why I bring this up, the concept I'm developing: Here we have a lot of discussion about learning facts verses learning "critical thinking". The trend to even less facts has long bothered me for one reason: I spent 20 years in classrooms and never learned some really basic things like "Did Cicero and Caesar live before or after Socrates or Atilla the Hun?" "When a writer talks of 'crossing the Rubicon', to what does he refer" "What is the Peace of Westphalia", "The Philosopher's Stone", "Runnymeade', 1066, etc. On the other hand, I have it from the once chief engineer at DARPA that I'm a passable critical thinker. So it was hard for me to grasp the critical thinking in K12 movement.
What I have more recently begun to perceive is that it is humanities majors unhappy with their educations who lead the call for critical thinking. Once I finally understood that, (a huge aha! for me), I started casting around for solutions.
In the back of my mind, then, is precisely the concept you reference with cs design patterns. There is a way of doing things; we don't each need to reinvent the wheel each time. Yet how to bring that pattern learning to Humanities majors.
Thus to the case method. In B School, what they give you is a scenario. Usually it has some numbers in it, to keep things out of the purely fantastic speculative realm. You might have a budget, or a capital structure, or a market share. You're then tasked with coming up with a plan to take the organization from the current state to the next state.
My very early thinking is that teachers could use a lot more of this type of education. It may be the critical thinking training they feel they and other students are missing.
As I said, very early in this thought experiment, but thank you for giving me not only a data point, but bringing in the design patterns idea, which is potent indeed.
That's the first time I ever heard "free range child"! It made me howl... Such an apt term. I raised a couple of those myself, and also several flocks of free-range chickens.
Maybe you'll post some of your music sometime? Would love to hear it. What kind of music do you make?
If you get a chance, maybe you could post a couple of your favorite articles coming out of your psych/ed studies.
Welcome to Fireside. So glad to have you!
Welcome
Great to see you by the Fireside - hope you feel free to enjoy and participate wherever and whenever...
Actually, you're just the person to answer a question I was writing about. What do you know about the Case Method? What learning experiences have you had with it, if any?
Oh, and enjoy!