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 [CS 150: Computer Organization & Architecture]

[CS 245: Computer Organization & Architecture]  [CoE 243/244: Digital Logic] 

 

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Some of My Teaching/Learning Philosophies

• ". . . All of the great teachers of ancient times -- Confucius and Lao Tse of China, the Hebrew prophets and Jesus in Biblical times, Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato in ancient Greece, and Cicero, Evelid, and Qutillian in ancient Rome -- were all teachers of adults, not of children.  Because of their experience with adults, they developed a very different concept of the learning/teaching process from the one that later dominated formal education.  They perceived learning to be a process of inquiry, not passive reception of transmitted content." (Malcom Knowles)

• "None but the humble become good teachers of adults.  In an adult class the student's experience counts for as much as the teacher's knowledge. . . . Indeed, in some of the best adult classes it is sometimes difficult to discover who is learning most, the teacher or the students." (Eduard Lindeman)

• "Lectures must be replaced with class exercises in which there is a large share of student participation.  'Let the class do the work' should be the adopted motto." (Harold Fields)

• "We cannot teach another person directly; we can only facilitate his learning."  (Carl Rogers)

• "[Educators must] make efforts to create learning experiences in which adults are helped to make the transition from dependent to self directing learners."  (Malcom Knowles)

• "As students become more proficient at engineering, our approach should change from telling them what they should know, to helping them decide and discover it for themselves. Fostering this by creating a practical, real-world situation in which students can experience problems and explore their own solutions, is superior to using only the traditional [lecture] in a classroom setting."  (Rex Fisher, excerpt from full paper)

• People learn best by doing.  (unknown origin)

•  "You only really learn a principle by using it, over and over again."  (Henry B. Eyring)

• "Turn some control over to the students. Amazing things can happen."  (Rex Fisher, excerpt from ASEE Paper)

• "If you can't explain something in several independent ways, then you don't really understand it."  (Richard Feynman)

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