Saturday, October 28, 2006

Methods of Education

It seems beneficial to acquire technical skills by opening a technical text to a topic that jumps out at the student and begin going through it despite its potentially advanced nature. Go over every term or procedure that is unfamiliar to the student in great depth and detail until it is well understood or identified. This may be a very slow way to progress through the technical text, but it will actively engage lack of knowledge in a student and give it greater context in practice, and can delve quickly through numerous fields and topics depending on the technical nature of the text.

This method can also be used in apprenticeships. The student would be given full authority of his desired post under the supervision of an affirmed position holder. For example, a student training to be a doctor would be given the position of doctor and paired with a standing doctor. They would then observe the doctor's actions and attempt to duplicate his ability. Wherever the student is unaware of what is happening or the correct action, the doctor will take command and handle the situation as a doctor would, and also teach the student what he is doing when there is time.

This is an apprenticeship, and is the preferred pretext to certification or licensure, after primary non-technical education and aforementioned technical text analysis, followed by interview or written test of the technical material. Once the articulation of the knowledge is acquired through an apprenticeship, the student is ready to take the licensure exam and become a fully trained and able skilled practitioner.

Methods of Education

It seems beneficial to acquire technical skills by opening a technical text to a topic that jumps out at the student and begin going through it despite its potentially advanced nature. Go over every term or procedure that is unfamiliar to the student in great depth and detail until it is well understood or identified. This may be a very slow way to progress through the technical text, but it will actively engage lack of knowledge in a student and give it greater context in practice, and can delve quickly through numerous fields and topics depending on the technical nature of the text.

This method can also be used in apprenticeships. The student would be given full authority of his desired post under the supervision of an affirmed position holder. For example, a student training to be a doctor would be given the position of doctor and paired with a standing doctor. They would then observe the doctor's actions and attempt to duplicate his ability. Wherever the student is unaware of what is happening or the correct action, the doctor will take command and handle the situation as a doctor would, and also teach the student what he is doing when there is time.

This is an apprenticeship, and is the preferred pretext to certification or licensure, after primary non-technical education and aforementioned technical text analysis, followed by interview or written test of the technical material. Once the articulation of the knowledge is acquired through an apprenticeship, the student is ready to take the licensure exam and become a fully trained and able skilled individual.

Methods of Education

It seems beneficial to acquire technical skills by opening a technical text to a topic that jumps out at the student and begin going through it despite its potentially advanced nature. Go over every term or procedure that is unfamiliar to the student in great depth and detail until it is well understood or identified. This may be a very slow way to progress through the technical text, but it will actively engage lack of knowledge in a student and give it greater context in practice, and can delve quickly through numerous fields and topics depending on the technical nature of the text.

This method can also be used in apprenticeships. The student would be given full authority of his desired post under the supervision of an affirmed position holder. For example, a student training to be a doctor would be given the position of doctor and paired with a standing doctor. They would then observe the doctor's actions and attempt to duplicate his ability. Wherever the student is unaware of what is happening or the correct action, the doctor will take command and handle the situation as a doctor would, and also teach the student what he is doing when there is time. This is an apprenticeship.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Cheaper Education

This just in, free tech and engineering books are available online.

http://www.freetechbooks.com/

Textbooks for schoolchildren should not cost $150 each. I can buy a book of any length at Barnes & Noble for under $50. $150 for a textbook is inappropriate.