Educational Techniques
This page discusses various contemporary educational techniques commonly used by computer science professors.
- Book Reading - This is where a professor will read you a book for 1 hour a day, several days a week for an entire semester. You touchingly recall when your mom used to read you bed time stories.
- The Duality Rule - In this case, the professor will operate on two mutually exclusive levels:
- Lectures
- Assignments
- The Proxy Method - This is an administrative technique in which students are taught by other students (usually foreign grad students). These courses are often challenging, both linguistically and emotionally.
-- AdamThorsen
- The Discussion Method - This is where students stare blankly at each other while the professor asks them to discuss the material "they read last night."
- The Lab Method - This is where professors make the labs so hard that they have as much extra credit labs as regular labs and the brightest student in the class gets a 174% in the class while about a quarter of the class actually shows up for lab and really does them at 5 am the day before they're due.
-- JoeWolin
- My preferred method of education is that of full immersion into a computer driven learning system which is able to push the student only if he/she is able to comprehend the material and provide active feedback. The "system" would consist of the following main components.
- Computer
- Large touchscreen plasma monitors
- interactive web tablet (wireless)
- complex interactive software
- nation database to update course material
See also: OufshaHome, ExtremeMeme