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Has Ontario taught its high-school students not to think? | University Affairs - 1 views

  • most of the students I see are not so much disengaged as poorly trained for university expectations. Students' ability to do analysis and synthesis seems to have been replaced by rote memorization and regurgitation in both the sciences and the humanities. This is a complaint that I hear from instructors in senior high-school classes through to professors in the humanities.
  • students do not really understand what they are doing even when they have covered the material in high school.
  • More important is the ability to relate these facts in new ways, to see them in a new light, and to bring quite disparate ideas together to solve new problems or create new forms of art. This ability to analyze and synthesize is what makes good scientists, writers, philosophers and artists. It is the ability needed to drive a knowledge-based economy.
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  • Much of the new curriculum in the junior grades is considered by many experienced teachers to be beyond the mental development of students at that level. This encourages blind memorization rather than understanding.
  • Moreover, the new curriculum significantly reduces time spent on the visual arts, and was so content-heavy that it greatly limited the amount of time available for developing analytical and conceptual-understanding skills from kindergarten on
  • much of the teaching at the elementary level is now directed to passing those tests, as schools are rated publicly on the results
  • our students entering university are a year younger. The teenage brain is still developing its "executive functions" during this time, so students enter university with a year's less ability to analyze and plan ahead.
  • grade inflation is clearly present
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      I agree this trend toward video and video games has reduced reading habits and turned the focus off text and onto multimedia delivery of information, but I'm not sure this trend alone has reduced analytical skills. Many video games require deep levels of analytical maneuvering to complete. A great book to read on this is Steven Johnson's book, "Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter"
  • The trend among young people to move away from reading and towards video and video games, means they spend less time developing reading/writing/analytical skills
  • They do not appreciate that, even as students, they will be expected to develop new knowledge, not just regurgitate existing facts.
  • Students continue to demonstrate serious deficiencies in problem solving skills, basic math skills, and hands-on laboratory skills when they arrive at the university level
  • There may be 10 years of students who have been taught not to think, and reversing that effect will be not be easy without a determined effort.

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Do you know much about cornish hens and cornish hen recipes? - 1 views

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    Are you interested in animal? Do you raise any animal as a leisure activity or at least to improve your life standard? Don't think that animal is all that stupid, they sometimes work as your loyal friend, partner, company. Many people often use animal as a type of meat, help them to supplement their nutrition. According to an institute, white meat such as fish or chicken is more nutritious and safer compared with red meat such as beef or pork. As the result, chicken is always one of the most favorite of every customer. There are many types of chicken in the world now, however, have you ever heard about the Cornish hen? If not, this article will give you short introduction about this interesting species. Cornish hen is a breeding and cross-breeding of chickens. Cornish hen has a quite long and glorious history, extending over continents and centuries. A new type was made from the Cornish Game and Plymouth or White Rock breeds of chicken, which produce a very deliciously-eaten chicken, the Rock Cornish hen or Rock Cornish hen. They are a great combination between the two hens. Though they are called hen, but we can easily find both male and female chicken of Cornish hens. One interesting point is that unlike other type of chicken, Cornish hen has shorter period of time in order to have a large breast. Hence, they are considered the world leading attribute of the breed in developing the large breast. Not only their short period of time in having a large breast, they have pretty short time in growing span as well, ranging from 4-6 weeks and after that they may be slaughtered or killed to the customers. Cornish hens weigh around 2 to 2, 5 pounds and provide about one serving of meat each. Many people like this type of chicken due to their light weight. There are some questions related to Cornish hen. Many know what a Cornish game "hen" is. However, many do not know the proper terminology for the male counterpart. There are some ideas about this question but some of the
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Shaking Up the Classroom - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    "...competency-based learning,... is based on the idea that students learn at their own pace and should earn credits and advance after they master the material-not just because they have spent a year in a certain class."

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SAT Coaching Classes in Hong Kong (China) - 0 views

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    Testprepkart is an online preparation class available all over the world even in Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, UAE etc. They prepare students from all over the world for SAT and SAT subject tests. Their faculty is outstanding as they know how to tackle each student in such a way that he/she understands maximum. They also provide study material, test series and free doubt removal classes.

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Wake Up and Smell the New Epistemology - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher... - 1 views

  • "It is imperative that someone studying this generation realize that we have the world at our fingertips — and the world has been at our fingertips for our entire lives. I think this access to information seriously undermines this generation's view of authority, especially traditional scholastic authority." Today's students know full well that authorities can be found for every position and any knowledge claim, and consequently the students are dubious (privately, that is) about anything we claim to be true or important.
  • Of course, this new epistemology does not imply that our students have become skilled arbiters of information and interpretation. It simply means that they arrive at college with well-established methods of sorting, doubting, or ignoring the same. That, by itself, is not troubling. Many professors encourage students to question authority, and would welcome more who challenged and debated ideas. But this new epistemology carries some heavy baggage — indeed, it is inseparably conjoined with personal economics. Short of fame or a lottery win, today's students recognize that a college degree is the minimum credential they will need to attain their desired standard of living (and hence "happiness"). So this new epistemology produces a rather odd kind of student — one who appears polite and dutiful but who cares little about the course work, the larger questions it raises, or the value of living an examined life. And it produces such students in overwhelming abundance.
  • we must respect students as thinkers, even though their thinking skills may be undeveloped and their knowledge base shallow. Moreover, our respect must be genuine. Students have keen hypocrisy sensors and do not like being patronized.
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  • It is not just residential-college students who live in a bubble — many faculty members do as well.
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11 New Year's Resolutions That Will Help You Graduate Sooner - 0 views

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    These common New Year's resolutions will not only make you a little healthier and more alive, they can give you the push you need toward that degree in, uh, hydroponics. Really?
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Online MBA vs Traditional MBA - Which is Best? - 0 views

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    With online MBAs becoming more prevalent, students and employers are posing some big, serious questions. Are online MBAs really equivalent to classroom-based degrees? Could they actually provide the same level of business expertise?

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5 Skills a Digital Marketer Needs to Succeed - DigitalMantra - Digital Marketing Traini... - 0 views

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    Digital Marketing as a domain is very dynamic in nature. Working on the digital marketing landscape is like always being on your toes. There have always been new tools, platforms, and trends in this particular industry. As a result of these frequent changes, digital marketer's need a particular skill set that is not only unique, adaptable but also relevant. Here we are going to discuss the 5 Skills a Digital Marketer Needs to Succeed 5 Skills a Digital Marketer Needs to Succeed - DigitalMantra - Digital Marketing Training Centre in Noida Being a digital marketer is tough as he/she needs to understand the new web paradigms and how they interact. It is also about how the social and digital channels operate and interact with each other.

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