Hopefully this would not be too late to talk about it...
Hmm let me recall...
It was a shock to me when we were told to get a piece of mahjong paper and marker to do the assignment. 'What?!' Whispers around. I asked the lecturer directly, "Why are we wasting our lecture time to do the assignment which is not due urgently since we'll be doing the same thing off-lecture?" I remembered he replied that he's trying to have a different teaching method so that the lectures won't be boring. In addition, we may have the opportunities to improve our work before submission. I agreed with him on the spot which I thought, well it may true. But I think it did not work well in the end. We did not really do the work seriously during the lecture time, and back home we did not improve the work we have done earlier as we had the thought that 'oh, it's already done, we shall hand it in'. And the worse was, I heard complaints around. Yet, there might be other groups were happy and did well on this.
I guess I'm rather a 'traditional' kinda student. Of course everybody prefers interesting and lively lectures. But frankly speaking, to me, interesting and lively depend on how the lecturers lecture - the way they speak and bring up the main points and elaborations from the readings. I believe informal activities are more proper to be done during tutorials. I could not deny that I learnt from the exercise we did with the mahjong paper. But I would say, I'd learn the same thing even if I'm doing it off-lecturely. I guess we are all not used to the new method and thus are not accepting it. Perhaps, i guess overtime, we might find it useful! If it does not, well all we can do is read up ourselves, post up questions and pray hard hard that the lecturer and TAs would explain them well in their answers or even discuss in class.
All the best fellow peeps! and, All the best our respected lecturer and TAs =)
Hmm let me recall...
It was a shock to me when we were told to get a piece of mahjong paper and marker to do the assignment. 'What?!' Whispers around. I asked the lecturer directly, "Why are we wasting our lecture time to do the assignment which is not due urgently since we'll be doing the same thing off-lecture?" I remembered he replied that he's trying to have a different teaching method so that the lectures won't be boring. In addition, we may have the opportunities to improve our work before submission. I agreed with him on the spot which I thought, well it may true. But I think it did not work well in the end. We did not really do the work seriously during the lecture time, and back home we did not improve the work we have done earlier as we had the thought that 'oh, it's already done, we shall hand it in'. And the worse was, I heard complaints around. Yet, there might be other groups were happy and did well on this.
I guess I'm rather a 'traditional' kinda student. Of course everybody prefers interesting and lively lectures. But frankly speaking, to me, interesting and lively depend on how the lecturers lecture - the way they speak and bring up the main points and elaborations from the readings. I believe informal activities are more proper to be done during tutorials. I could not deny that I learnt from the exercise we did with the mahjong paper. But I would say, I'd learn the same thing even if I'm doing it off-lecturely. I guess we are all not used to the new method and thus are not accepting it. Perhaps, i guess overtime, we might find it useful! If it does not, well all we can do is read up ourselves, post up questions and pray hard hard that the lecturer and TAs would explain them well in their answers or even discuss in class.
All the best fellow peeps! and, All the best our respected lecturer and TAs =)
Thanks you are very obedient; but know that we can agree to disagree in the spirit of learning. Feel free to post what you don't understand, okay? I do comb the blogs once in a while.
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