I just don't get the brou-ha-ha over lectures. I lecture.
I make no excuses for that. There is a lot that can be done to make lectures relatively interactive. It's not rocket science. The pause for students to think about a question asked during a lecture, and then providing a CORRECT answer! the pause for students to formulate an answer, maybe a little pair and share, and then solicitation of the responses. I use lots of embedded demos, especially in cognitive. It does not have to be 100% delivery, but for most of my classes I'd say it's about 80% delivery with short film clips, demos and embedded questions. Let's face it, discovery learning does not work especially well. Students are are likely, if not more likely, to hit upon a wrong answer and then convince their classmates of the wrong information. Go back and check the archives for many of Hake's postings for evidence to that effect. Students who are learning new stuff and have minimal background need lecture. Ours is not a very hands-on discipline. It's important that they understand HOW we reached the conclusions we have reached, which is what we are teaching--the conclusions. So what's wrong with lecture? I'm tired of the black and white painting of course pedagogies. It's all in how you do any of them. Look at the discussions of powerpoint. It's not powerpoint that is inherently bad. I think it's great! One of the primary things that attracts our attention is motion, so that presenting things that appear one by one captures attention. It's a matter of what it is that appears that is important. So I lecture and I use powerpoint. There. I'm proud of it! Annette ps: And there are a large number of traditional TED talks that I really like a lot : But some of them are dogs...and most of them are more like lecture than anything else. Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [email protected] ________________________________________ Subject: Aren't TED talks just lectures? From: "Jim Clark" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:51:31 -0600 X-Message-Number: 1 Hi I often hear or read about how "bad" or "outdated" or whatever lecturing is. And yet TED talks appear to get lots of good publicity. But aren't TED talks just lectures, albeit very good ones (usually good, that is)? What do people who disparage lecturing think it is that they are criticizing? Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology [email protected] Room 4L41A 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax Dept of Psychology, U of Winnipeg 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0R4 CANADA --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=23311 or send a blank email to leave-23311-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
