The scholarship on the relationship of thinking and language is extensive. This human capacity to know symbolically as apposed to what is often called active or enactive knowing, as when one learns to ride a bike. Or a level of iconic knowing that draws upon images, pictorial representations, etc. all so important in the growth of knowledge. But it is the realm of symbolic knowing that opens a much vaster range of possibilities for humans to create, to think more imaginatively and to go way beyond the here and now. And because of language Prof. Brands tries to employ it to improve the historical thinking of his students. He deserves so much credit in giving the time in thinking about the ways he can help his students through their writing to achieve this level of understanding.
There aren't many college instructors that work on their teaching as often as not they are into their own research or so often this is not given near the consideration when it comes to peer reviews. Fortunately of late this seems to be changing.
From my own experience teaching well requires an effort to improve in the manner of delivering the course material or thinking of the ways to engage with the students so they can think better about the subjects at hand.
I always valued the role student writing can assist them to these higher and more critical levels about the subjects under discussion. There was a time when we did a lot of reading of one another's writing and thereby engaged in some fine ideas but also manners of expression. This worked well with some. Not others.
There is always the concern that students will draw upon their own words and forms of expression rather than taking them from other sources and no doubt AI opens opportunities that must be handled carefully. If used well this can become a welcomed addition for students to grow in their thinking. It is a world I have never worked in. I do know when we were about to write I tried to keep the topics within the range of texts and the articles we all used. This way I had a pretty good sense and whether it was the students writing or that taken from other's work.
There will always be ways to improve on teaching the young. I appreciate the topics you experiment with and look forward to how all this goes in the new school year.
If I were writing that essay I might write it as a letter from Josie to a friend or sister. In that way I would be hoping to outwit AI’s ability to express intimacy if it is at all capable of doing that. Do you think an essay in that form would be an improvement?
The scholarship on the relationship of thinking and language is extensive. This human capacity to know symbolically as apposed to what is often called active or enactive knowing, as when one learns to ride a bike. Or a level of iconic knowing that draws upon images, pictorial representations, etc. all so important in the growth of knowledge. But it is the realm of symbolic knowing that opens a much vaster range of possibilities for humans to create, to think more imaginatively and to go way beyond the here and now. And because of language Prof. Brands tries to employ it to improve the historical thinking of his students. He deserves so much credit in giving the time in thinking about the ways he can help his students through their writing to achieve this level of understanding.
There aren't many college instructors that work on their teaching as often as not they are into their own research or so often this is not given near the consideration when it comes to peer reviews. Fortunately of late this seems to be changing.
From my own experience teaching well requires an effort to improve in the manner of delivering the course material or thinking of the ways to engage with the students so they can think better about the subjects at hand.
I always valued the role student writing can assist them to these higher and more critical levels about the subjects under discussion. There was a time when we did a lot of reading of one another's writing and thereby engaged in some fine ideas but also manners of expression. This worked well with some. Not others.
There is always the concern that students will draw upon their own words and forms of expression rather than taking them from other sources and no doubt AI opens opportunities that must be handled carefully. If used well this can become a welcomed addition for students to grow in their thinking. It is a world I have never worked in. I do know when we were about to write I tried to keep the topics within the range of texts and the articles we all used. This way I had a pretty good sense and whether it was the students writing or that taken from other's work.
There will always be ways to improve on teaching the young. I appreciate the topics you experiment with and look forward to how all this goes in the new school year.
If I were writing that essay I might write it as a letter from Josie to a friend or sister. In that way I would be hoping to outwit AI’s ability to express intimacy if it is at all capable of doing that. Do you think an essay in that form would be an improvement?
I did something like that last year. I had students imagine an older Josie writing to her younger self. I might do it again. Thanks.