Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "" video.
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A long time ago, he said he doesn't read YouTube comments, either. He said they'll make you crazy. So, here we are! LOL!
I used to hang on every student evaluation of mine, when I first got into teaching. Some of the things they hated I knew were working. Some of the things they LOVED I knew weren't really working. But I got tricked into continuing some strategies that basically enabled a lot of passive learning. I fell in love with the sound of my own voice and giving the "perfect lecture." There's no such thing.
Hell, they'd even clap after my talks, and I'd win awards, thinking I was hot shit, but then I did a survey of their lecture notes, and half of them were writing down what I told them what NOT to do as the thing for them TO do. Very sobering. Very humbling. Professors want to be high priests or rock stars in the content area, when the students don't really understand anything until they engage with the knowledge DiRECTLY. Sweat blood over the concepts. THEN their minds are primed for what I've got to say.
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