The students may not have interest in studying but maybe its because
they are not getting something *interesting*. Its like studying math
for the sake of studying maths... For abstract thinkers that may be
interesting but for most, they would probably find it interesting only
if they see the applicability.
We cannot wait for the whole education system to change. Actually you
can start changing it in small ways on your own. For example students
may be focused on grades but if you gave them an engaging project I
daresay they would become more focused on the project.
On 11/09/2010 14:40, David G M wrote:
Hi,
Indeed this is a mental issue that has to be dealt with through our
education system.
Just like Johnson said "We need to tackle to problem right away from
secondary and even primary!"
Most students read to pass and that's all. This mentality has to be
uprooted for better results.
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 3:15 PM, J.Mwebaze <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Most of our students do not have the interest to study heard - most
of them are there to get papers! I have seen
students complaining about lecturers who involve them a lot and
teach hard core stuff.. i for one - i was supervising students and
they requested to change supervision, because i asked for a rather
simple python implementation.. So even those good and interested
students miss out!
We need to tackle to problem right away from secondary and every
primary! Students are rather interested in passing than leaning!
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Emmanuel Mulo
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I believe like many that the problem lies with the instruction.
I can give you a concrete example. For an entire semester at
uni, the longest assignment we got for the so called Programming
methodology course involved writing 20 lines of C code and
mostly with scanf's and printf's for that matter. I am sure the
situation is much improved now but if that was the quality of
the instruction, you couldn't expect such an instructor to
challenge his/her students to contribute to OSS projects.
On 11/09/2010 10:11, Tim Schofield wrote:
I agree here. I am currently mentoring some Makarere
students on an
open source project, and they do lack some very basic skills.
Tim
On 11 September 2010 01:18, Wilson
Abigaba<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Peter C.
Ndikuwera<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Can you estimate how many students were at the
event? Surely if students
were involved in OSS development they'd have
encountered the GSoC?
I did submit an application when I was a student (4
years ago) but it
wasn't selected to take part...it could be the case for
many of the
students given the fact they haven't been exposed to
these kinds of
projects/code etc.
Another simple example, how many students do *serious*
programming
projects/courses at University? For BIT/Computer
Science, MUK, I think
the number is less than 15 per year. I for one haven't
seen a final
year project written in C or C++ or any at least any
object oriented
programming/scripting language. To me, this explains how our
programming skills are still wanting. We still need to
sharpen our
skills before we can even contribute to such (FOSS)
projects and
graduate to be selected for GSoC.
Regards,
Wilson
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