Comments on: Does Bauerlein have a point, or is he just a jerk? http://stevendkrause.com/2008/03/09/does-bauerlein-have-a-point-or-is-he-just-a-jerk/ School, work, life, and everything else Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:38:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: v yonkers http://stevendkrause.com/2008/03/09/does-bauerlein-have-a-point-or-is-he-just-a-jerk/#comment-199 v yonkers Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:16:57 +0000 http://stevendkrause.com/2008/03/09/does-bauerlein-have-a-point-or-is-he-just-a-jerk/#comment-199 One of the other things you left out is the preparation for class. As information and technology change on a daily basis, it is important to be prepared when you face your class who have information at their finger tips. I spend about 10 hours a week researching my field so that my students will be able to leave my classroom with skills they can use 10 years from now. The old system that everyone is thinking of where the knowledge is contained in books in the library, that do not change from year to year just is not valid anymore. When I first taught international market research 15 years ago, I was teaching my students how to make decisions using very little, outdated information. Now I have to teach them how to decipher and weed out garbage from the mounds of information they have at their finger tips. In my writing classes, I have to teach students how writing styles change according to their audience, and they now have the information about their audiences and the writing formats they expect, right at their finger tips. It is impossible to sit back and not keep current anymore as we enter the classroom. Students, graduates, and the universities demand more. One of the other things you left out is the preparation for class. As information and technology change on a daily basis, it is important to be prepared when you face your class who have information at their finger tips. I spend about 10 hours a week researching my field so that my students will be able to leave my classroom with skills they can use 10 years from now.

The old system that everyone is thinking of where the knowledge is contained in books in the library, that do not change from year to year just is not valid anymore. When I first taught international market research 15 years ago, I was teaching my students how to make decisions using very little, outdated information. Now I have to teach them how to decipher and weed out garbage from the mounds of information they have at their finger tips.

In my writing classes, I have to teach students how writing styles change according to their audience, and they now have the information about their audiences and the writing formats they expect, right at their finger tips. It is impossible to sit back and not keep current anymore as we enter the classroom. Students, graduates, and the universities demand more.

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