Comments on: The Myth of First-Year Enlightenment II http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2008/11/the-myth-of-first-year-enlightenment-ii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-myth-of-first-year-enlightenment-ii From InterVarsity's Emerging Scholars Network Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:42:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Trice http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2008/11/the-myth-of-first-year-enlightenment-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-820 Trice Thu, 28 May 2009 17:43:37 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/?p=249#comment-820 Here's another interesting idea of how to change the way we teach to help students learn to think critically: http://savageminds.org/2006/04/02/a-brief-theory-of-anti-teaching/ I teach freshman and sophomores at a university in China so my experiences are probably quite different, but there is still that struggle to do things in such a way that students clearly understand the /why/ of assignments and activities. My students are very exam-oriented also (a reaction to the system here, I believe), so I am trying to find ways to help them understand that building skills in critical thinking and writing will also help them in the way of exam scores, and, ultimately, in their future careers. Here’s another interesting idea of how to change the way we teach to help students learn to think critically:

http://savageminds.org/2006/04/02/a-brief-theory-of-anti-teaching/

I teach freshman and sophomores at a university in China so my experiences are probably quite different, but there is still that struggle to do things in such a way that students clearly understand the /why/ of assignments and activities. My students are very exam-oriented also (a reaction to the system here, I believe), so I am trying to find ways to help them understand that building skills in critical thinking and writing will also help them in the way of exam scores, and, ultimately, in their future careers.

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