Re: Teaching without seeming to teach!

[Tom Herme <hermet -at- DNINEVADA -dot- COM>]

Right you are, Nancy! Learn by watching others. Then learn by doing what others
do. Then solidify your own learning by teaching someone else.
See my post to George's initial thread concerning the use of examples in text.

>From another teacher in the classroom, now a teacher on paper (and on-line).

Tom

McDonald, Nancy -The Registry (LCI) wrote:

> George,
> Here's what comes to my mind right away:
> 1.  The problem with a wizard, in my mind, is that IT does the work FOR me,
> not teaching me how to do it myself.  In other words, for me to learn how to
> do it, I'll have to observe closely the actions involved in the task(s) the
> wizard is designed to do.  This seems to me to be analogous to:
> 2.  When I ask someone (who usually is not a teacher) how to do something at
> my computer, they'll sometimes want to  respond by sitting down at my
> computer and doing the thing I myself need to learn to do.  I don't learn by
> watching someone else doing the task as well as I learn when I actually go
> through the tasks at hand via another medium, such as a text that tells me
> how, when I read it, or someone at my shoulder who observes my actions and
> says, "no don't do that, do this instead, because this is....."
>
> Perhaps, using a wizard is  more like something I have to memorize doing,
> rather than having some c onceptual framework...  something such as  the
> actual reasons behind the task.
>
> These are just my raw thoughts here... must have more on this subject!
>
> From:  Nancy McDonald
> Sr. Tech writer, former teacher.  (who learned from a Dewey scholar......)
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Tom Herme
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DNI Nevada, Inc.
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