Matt’s Notes
Folks… and folkers…
It’s my distinct pleasure to caw up some media hereabouts… to the effect of allaying the malicious and seditious tendencies of being entrenched in traditions vis-à-vis our educational approaches!
And so we veer all around, and it’s a cracking good chat! So click below!
If this audio could talk, the things it would squawk! #ednontech
The first day of summer: Whoda thunk it?
As we drift into the early, early days of a summer that shall no doubt be thought of later as having “blinked past”, I’m grateful in my un-erhm-self-employed situ to have such rad pursuits as podcasting, interviewing, and writing on the full-time, on the regular!
For sure, I have less than half my life left… that’s just math… and so my questions about next steps and so forth are more along the lines of “what’s best for my wellness” and “how sane and happy will I feel” and so forth… as being more pertinent than say… strictly financial criteria…
And so, to that end… I’m stoked with pretty much all aspects of what’s going on… given that what happens is a function of nature expressing its will in some way… being unhappy about it would be worse than pointless… it would be literally counter-productive…
Thanks as ever for the Stoics, and in particular Marcus Aurelius for his Meditations!
506 Consulting (2022) Ltd., Updates!
I’m pleased to announce that my pal Matt Gay has accepted my generous offer of pro bono employment, sans benefits, as Principal Consultant– Upper Canada with 506 Consulting (2022), Ltd. Updates to the website will be coming soon!
We are legitimately thrilled that Mr. Gay will taking part as an equal partner in 506 endeavors, and we look forward to many fruitful, not to say downright MOIST, collaborations in the short, medium, and long terms!
Matt is first and foremost an intelligent, educated, thoughtful, hilarious guy! None of my friends come close to making laugh like this dude! Sorry, not sorry, other friends… you know this as well as I do to be true!
He’s also a legitimate threat as a musician, having ripped gaping bloody holes across multiple acts, locations, and venues over two-and-a-half decades… terrorizing.. and mesmerizing!… the Atlantic Canadian, Quebec, and Ontario punk scenes in such time(s)!
Born Into This (Wollard/Bukowski)
It’s funny, the confluence between these two artists whom I greatly admire… poet laureate of whatever, Buk… and Florida punk musician Chris Wollard from Ship Thieves and Hot Water Music and The Sheryl Cro(w) Mags and many other things.
Bukowski is a writer of some notoriety/renown… some debauchedness… Nick Cave famously hates his writing… you can’t deny the man goes full scrotological… speaking freely of his debasedness… and elevating it some fashion in doing so…
I can’t believe I feel like I even have to defend somebody I enjoy this much! As with any writer… ditch the chaff, and locate the good stuff… if you can be bothered to, that is!
Bukowski wrote a book and a poem called Born Into This… and they did a documentary about him called the same… and Ship Thieves have a song called Born Into This on their excellent LP from a few years back entitled “No Anchor”! Sick is what all of it is… you’re doing yourself a serious disservice if you miss any of it!
Click here to download the poem which you can hear me reading directly above!
Doug’s Notes
Traditional Teaching Practice: Where we came from
Three different methods of instruction are utilized in the present investigation. These include the instructor-centered method, the stu- dent-centered method, and the eclectic method.
The eclectic method did not confine itself to any one manner of presentation. A combination of many instructional techniques was used. These included many of the techniques used in the two methods previously described.
Krumboltz, J. D., & Farquhar, W. W. (1957). The effect of three teaching methods on achievement and motivational and outcomes in a how-to-study course. Psychological Monographs: General and Applied, 71(14), 1.
There are more people in the world than ever before, and a far greater part of them want an education. The demand cannot be met simply by building more schools and training more teachers. Education must become more efficient. … In any other field a demand for increased production would have led at once to the invention of labor-saving capital equipment.
in the 192O’s, when Sidney L. Pressey designed several machines for the automatic testing of intelligence and information. … Pressey’s machines succumbed in part to cultural inertia; the world of education was not ready for them.
Skinner, B. F. (1958). Teaching Machines: From the experimental study of learning come devices which arrange optimal conditions for self-instruction. Science, 128(3330), 969-977.
Teaching effectiveness is today a national concern… the top priority is given to “the mounting shortage of excellent teachers.”
“Teaching a large class other than through television is more demanding than teaching a small class…. The amount of time necessary to develop cases and problems … is much greater than the time required to handle the course by lecture.”
Hatch, W. R., & Bennet, A. B. F. (1960). Effectiveness in teaching (No. 2). US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education.
OU teaching methods and the OU budget
The teaching system has the following main components.
A. CORRESPONDENCE MATERIALS
B. TV AND RADIO BROADCASTS
C. FACE-TO-FACE TEACHING
D. HOME EXPERIMENTAL KITS AND STUDENT COMPUTING SERVICE
Laidlaw, B., & Layard, R. (1974). Traditional versus Open University teaching methods: a cost comparison. Higher education, 3(4), 439-468.
Pressey’s Teaching Machine – originally only offered multiple choice questions
https://www.si.edu/object/pressey-teaching-machine:nmah_1367149
Suggestopedia … The theory applied positive suggestion in teaching when it was developed in the 1970s. Suggestopedia gets its name from the term “suggestologiya” – the science of the suggestion and “suggestopeadiya” – suggestology section devoted to the theory and practice of suggestion in teaching. A distinctive feature of this method is the disclosure of memory reserves, raising the intellectual activity, the use of suggestion, relaxation.
Nurutdinova, A. R., Perchatkina, V. G., Zinatullina, L. M., Zubkova, G. I., & Galeeva, F. T. (2016). Innovative teaching practice: traditional and alternative methods (challenges and implications). International journal of environmental and science education, 11(10), 3807-3819.
Word of the Podcast
Tradition
Question of the Podcast
Is tradition just peer pressure from dead people?
Phrase of the Podcast
Cultural inertia
Tradition would have it that this is where we shall gratefully see you to the door, and wish you a short and uneventful trip home!
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