Sunday, November 23, 2008

Digital learning

Should teachers learn how to use new technnology to teach students? Yes and no. Their is a study out about the students of today and how they learn that, it is different today with the increase of technology. Some argue that teachers need to chang how they teach in order for students to understand. Such as cuting down films making thins more visual and faster, this may or may not work. for me math is a class where i need to write the problems down and solve them on paper rather, than a computer and it is scarry how dependent we as a socity are on technology, what would we do if something were to happpen to it? the fact is that we should do things with the old and the new, that we need to find a balance between the old fasioned and the new and changing. so that we are not so dependent on one or the other. so in truth professors must look at what is changing and so themselfs cahnge how they teach but not completely just use what they know and update it. you know a little old school mixed with the new.

Academic Bias

Academic bias does it exist? Yes it does and it always will but so what. People know that some sort of bias exists in life because people themselfs are biased. should teachers be hired based on political beliefes NO. the fact is most young people get their political beliefes while growing up rather it be from family life, religion or other groups so, universitys should not have to hire based on believes but rather on experiance.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Academic Bias? Yes ther is some bias in the college instution but would you expect their, is some type of bias in everything so why the suprise in the educational system who knows. The thing that anoys me the most is that people only take the time to complain about it, and do survays about political bias yet the seem not to do much about it. Yes their is a liberal lean in most colleges, but, hay even in a name you know the College of liberal arts and sciences and insted of complaining that their is a bias do something creat a group or an originization to bring conseritive speakers to the university.