{"id":65849,"date":"2019-01-17T08:45:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=65849"},"modified":"2019-01-17T08:47:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:47:59","slug":"is-it-ever-ok-to-lecture-gooblar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/01\/17\/is-it-ever-ok-to-lecture-gooblar\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Is it ever OK to lecture?\u2019 [Gooblar]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Is it ever OK to lecture?\u2019<\/strong><\/a> — from chronicle.com by David Gooblar<\/p>\n

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All of which leaves many newcomers to teaching \u2014 and some classroom veterans \u2014 wondering: Can\u2019t instructors just lecture sometimes? Can\u2019t we ever just tell students what we know?<\/p>\n

Of course we can, but it\u2019s important to know what telling is good for \u2014 and what it\u2019s not. If we can better understand the problem with relying too much on lecturing \u2014 or “continuous exposition by the teacher,” as Derek Bruff, director of Vanderbilt University\u2019s teaching center, called it \u2014 then we can better situate lectures within a mix of teaching practices.<\/p>\n

When to “tell,” and when not to.
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\nTelling is an excellent method of communicating specific information, and there are plenty of occasions when our students need specific information. To communicate important facts, to illustrate a concept with a story of its application, to explain the historical origins of a conflict, you can take the easiest route from A to B and just tell (i.e., lecture) your students.<\/p>\n

What telling is not good for: teaching students complex ideas, conceptual knowledge, or difficult skills.
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\nIt\u2019s also true that the best students \u2014 ones who have developed good note-taking skills \u2014 can learn quite a lot from a lecture. But to reach more than just the best students, we need to do more than just tell the class information and expect everyone to understand and put it to use.<\/p>\n

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A short lecture on those very topics will be that much more effective after students first try to solve the puzzle on their own. Na\u00efve tasks work well because they reveal to students the gaps in their knowledge \u2014 gaps that your lecture can fill.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Or take a page from the na\u00efve-tasks concept and have students attempt the quiz before the lecture, thus revealing to them all that they don\u2019t know. Then give students a chance to change their answers as they learn from your lecture.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Is it ever OK to lecture?\u2019 — from chronicle.com by David Gooblar Excerpts: All of which leaves many newcomers to teaching \u2014 and some classroom veterans \u2014 wondering: Can\u2019t instructors just lecture sometimes? Can\u2019t we ever just tell students what we know? Of course we can, but it\u2019s important to know what telling is good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,115,302,121,71,3,62,173,89,50,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-face-to-face","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-online-learning","category-pedagogy","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65849"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65853,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65849\/revisions\/65853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}