Today's discussions did not go well. It was hard to understand what our questions were getting at. Using "gains" vs "losses" terminology made it confusing. Our group didn't know the goal was to come up with + or - for the question, and the two questions didn't seem to hint at that. Our groups, For technology or Against technology did not seem to necessarily match up. For example, just because I was For technology doesn't mean I was coming up with gains for the question. It was mostly opinion questions and the discussion questions were not clear. Also, just having us summarize the key ideas of our own discussion did not at all match up with what would have been an appropriate summary of the chapter. I feel like the group discussion did not build on the chapter of help me understand the the Gains and Losses of the educational revolution. Professor Boyer had more positives and negatives and didn't really ask for our feedback (just told us to build on his topics. I definitely had more negatives than positives.
I was also surprised that when Professor Boyer shared the results of his mid course evaluation and was pleased that his workload was considered high. Especially because I thought that was a very generous answer (I answered Much Too High.) He said that ten hours is reasonable. And I know that's what to expect with a three credit course. But I think professors sometimes forget that we have other class with similar heavy work loads, a job, and other responsibilities. This week I plan to count to see if I am really doing only ten hours of homework, because I feel like it is very high. If I do have more than ten hours, I plan to talk to Professor Boyer. One of the things he does better than any other professor is making himslef available in a wide variety of ways (skype, email, office hours, etc.) By keeping track of my hours spent I can see what activites are taking up the most of my time.
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