{"id":69685,"date":"2020-02-18T10:33:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T15:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69685"},"modified":"2020-02-18T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T15:33:32","slug":"the-teacher-isnt-teaching-and-im-having-to-teach-myself-the-material-has-three-embedded-misconceptions-that-need-to-be-addressed-talbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/02\/18\/the-teacher-isnt-teaching-and-im-having-to-teach-myself-the-material-has-three-embedded-misconceptions-that-need-to-be-addressed-talbert\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The teacher isn&#8217;t teaching and I&#8217;m having to teach myself the material&#8221; has three embedded misconceptions that need to be addressed. [Talbert]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rtalbert.org\/three-thoughts-on-active-learning-and-self-teaching\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Three thoughts on active learning and self-teaching<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from rtalbert.org Robert Talbert<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;The teacher isn&#8217;t teaching and I&#8217;m having to teach myself the material&#8221; has three embedded misconceptions that need to be addressed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">First:\u00a0<strong>Learning is a process, not an action that one person performs on another.<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBut in the end,\u00a0<strong>an outside person cannot cause you to learn<\/strong>. This isn&#8217;t how learning works. Learning instead is a\u00a0<em>process<\/em>\u00a0that moves back and forth, sometimes focused on an instructor but other times focused on the learner or a group of learners together.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nSecond:\u00a0<strong>Not being lectured to all the time is not the same thing as having to teach yourself.<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8230;<br \/>\nThird:\u00a0<strong>In any event, the skill of self-teaching is essential in college and needs to be developed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>But in general, we need to see &#8212; and we have work to do in communicating this to students &#8212; that self-teaching is a feature, not a bug.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three thoughts on active learning and self-teaching &#8212; from rtalbert.org Robert Talbert &#8220;The teacher isn&#8217;t teaching and I&#8217;m having to teach myself the material&#8221; has three embedded misconceptions that need to be addressed. Excerpts: First:\u00a0Learning is a process, not an action that one person performs on another. &#8230; But in the end,\u00a0an outside person cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,322,115,302,3,119,46,102,7,223,173,66,89,50,188,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active-learning","category-adjunct-faculty","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-higher-education","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-theories","category-pedagogy","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-teaching-online","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69687,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69685\/revisions\/69687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}