Educational Questions: a Path to Discovering, not just Learning
Originally posted on patrickhroache:
The question is our best educational asset. Postman, Weingartner, and Macrorie, would all make this argument, and they did in the assigned reading. Postman and Weingartner…
Reflection on Project 1: The About Me page
Originally posted on patrickhroache:
When I finished the first draft of my “About Me” page, one thing stuck out in particular. It was rather long. An internal conflict began to…
Free writing on Swales
Originally posted on patrickhroache:
The term discourse community has a very vague definition. In fact very few people actually have a complete thorough understanding of the term- most just have…
Response to Gee
Originally posted on patrickhroache:
To be completely honest, while reading Gee’s arguments I began to get distracted by thoughts- mainly questions- about my secondary Discourses. However, in doing so, it…
Ash and Clayton Post
Originally posted on ajh0824:
In this article, Ash and Clayton describe a learning process commonly used at NCSU called “service-learning.” This process does away with traditional student/teacher relationships in a…