In Morgan Bayda's blog post she covered many areas of the educational arena that would help many future teachers and teachers who want to be a good educator. Morgan included a video in her blog by Dan Brown and he explained how he dropped out of school because he was not being educated at all. Morgan discussed many things that college students of today are facing. She talked about how professors have long lectures and they are just throwing facts to students, but the students are not learning and most of the time the lectures are so uninteresting and students tend to fall asleep. In the video that she posted on her blog Dan Brown explained how he bought text books that he never used and in this case many college students have experienced this. It is not that the students do not want to learn by using their textbooks, but the internet has more information than a textbook would or you can say that a textbook is a limited source and students can go online and get the information for free.
Many of things that Morgan has gone through in college has been some of my experiences as a college student also. It is great to know that students are discussing their college experiences with other students so that they would know that their is a better way to cope with this frustration. Their are many professors who should try these new methods that Morgan has talked about and they should change their schooling to educating the students in the institutions. Students should not be so overwhelmed by the lectures until their bodies are exhausted from the rambling of the professor and the clicking that professors do when they use PowerPoint slides, I think that it is not educating teaching, but burp teaching.
Tom Johnson: Don't Let Them Take The Pencils Home
Even though, as I begin reading the post I did not fully understand what this post really meant. It took some thinking and analyzing to get it. I realized that this post is actually talking about solving a problem and what many teachers do when a problem occurs amongst their students test scores. In this instance, the post was referring to students test scores and the problem was that students who took their pencils home had lower test scores. The point of this blog was to explain how teachers focus on the problem instead of trying to figure out some kind of solution to stop the problem.
I, too, have had several of these same experiences. I agree with you that professors should definitely try some new methods besides lectures with PowerPoint.
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