Teddy’s Response to Jason’s Reading Log 02.07.2010

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Teddy’s Response to Jason’s Reading Log 02.07.2010

For class session 02.09.2010

In particular, I enjoyed the opening point Jason stated about cross cultural studies in teaching and learning. It is fascinating that so many disciplines are focusing on one topic, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Both teaching and learning communities are steadily making this a high priority. Yet, money is always an object in funding and supporting research in such areas, but we cannot afford to wait or stall progress that’s desperately needed to make advances in critical disciplines such as education, medicine and research. We must continue to pursue pedagogical research that will help our students increase life-long learning experiences and reduce surface learning. Our helpless need to continue to promote short term learning will be a thorn in our side as long as we deny that deeper learning comes as an artifact of first-hand experience. As Jason (2010) puts it, we continue to reward and glorify memorization, obsess over test scores, frame intelligence as an inherited ability, and attempt to fuel education with cut throat competitiveness in the classroom, we will continue to produce students that learn to anxiously cram for exams, memorize lots of facts, and forget everything when the course is over.

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