So yesterday, I mentioned that I came up with an analogy for my music class. I suppose I will just do that today then. I’m going to start with the analogy, and then I will explain it.
A child gets spoon-fed every day. Morning, noon, night, the kid’s mom is feeding the em herself. The problem with this comes down the road. In 9 and then in 18 weeks, the mom will be gone, and there will be no one to feed the child directly. He must either pick the spoon up and feed himself, or he’ll go hungry for the day. Had the child been attentive during the feeding, he will be fine for these days, but if not, he will likely go hungry.
As for my class, it is a bit different from most of the classes I’ve taken. In class, she lectures from lecture notes that she projects on to the front of the class. She also puts these lecture notes online for her students to download. She also hands out study guides for each of the sections she goes over.
I’d say a majority of people go through and answer the study guide in class, but a lot people don’t so anything in class. They just veg out for an hour and a half. I imagine the train of thought being that they can just get the lecture notes online and be fine. Sadly, there appears to be a lot of people turning in study guides that are simply copied off of other people. It’s getting my teacher rather upset.
There is an illusion of ease to class, and really, its not a hard class, but you still get out what you put in. For the midterm, the average score was a 73%. I got an A, and I’m not the only person that did well. I’m guessing there was a large distribution well above and below the average rather than a bulk of people actually getting C’s. It was a rather easy test if you actually paid any attention in class, and probably a beach if you didn’t.
While I don’t fault my teacher for the class, after all, its easy to succeed in the class with only a little bit motivation, but I imagine a more normal class setup world force students into paying attention in class and learn.
All-in-all, I enjoy the class and structure, but it is depressing to see the results
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