tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post114932378825856589..comments2024-03-28T21:53:50.039-04:00Comments on Half an Hour: On Teaching Being DeadStephen Downeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06140591903467372209noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-58232551241321854382008-10-24T18:27:00.000-04:002008-10-24T18:27:00.000-04:00Hi Stephen, I'm sorry I missed this post after all...Hi Stephen, I'm sorry I missed this post after all this time. But, thanks to this technology it is here, and we are able to revisit it - even if it just be a response from me.<BR/><BR/>The one thing I worry about in the "teaching is dead" topic, is that if we (I) give even an inch to teachers, to say - yeah teaching isn't really dead, they take a mile! Time and time again we see it. The institution of teaching absorbing its critics, convincing its agents that they are not the teachers being criticised, and on it goes - largely unchanged.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps we need to far more detailed about what sort of teaching we mean to be dead. But I can see plenty of reason for presentation/lecture style teaching to remain in different situations. By briefly explaining the inch of teaching that is dead, that gives teaching as a practice the mile it needs to retain a sense of legitimacy. <BR/><BR/>Your point about being honest and upright and a role model is right. And it is the level of positive detail that is perhaps more useful in this topic about teaching.<BR/><BR/>I suppose it is the institution of teaching that we are trying to get at.. but we simply join a long league of people who have done that before. I find it easier to say teaching is dead, long live learning.. what a shame the point is so easily missed - that its not about teaching at all, but about living and learningLeigh Blackallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-1149518182580994372006-06-05T10:36:00.000-04:002006-06-05T10:36:00.000-04:00Honesty is a vital ingredient - if for no other re...Honesty is a vital ingredient - if for no other reason, the seriousness of the subject we are addressing demands it of us. <BR/><BR/>Oh, and I'm very glad of the new directness in your work - I started down this road some while ago (partially following my "why the hell am I doing this?!?" moment with my IMS committee work, partially as a result of becoming a parent and getting more perspective) - and I think it makes life a lot easier. I certainly haven't lost any friends because of it, and have gained some new ones.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09360976971169846084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-1149472465310231692006-06-04T21:54:00.000-04:002006-06-04T21:54:00.000-04:00I agree - "Teaching as presenting is dead. Teachin...I agree - "Teaching as presenting is dead. Teaching is transferring information from one brain into another is dead. Teaching as exercising authority over a group of students is dead. But teaching, genuine teaching, living what it is you want the next generation to see and emulate, is necessary, and indeed, the only honorable profession." Yes!<BR/><BR/>And being honest with yourself is the work of a lifetime. Anyone who just tells and orders, whether as a teacher, parent, or in any profession, only gets shallow and faked responses.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for a great post.Joan Vinall-Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07054812627103822788noreply@blogger.com