I recently posted about Mylène’s attempts to teach “technical reading.” Now she has another post on a different exercise she used: Reading Comprehension: Identifying Confusion. Once more, good stuff that would be very useful in beginning engineering classes.
I have a hard time justifying 20 minutes in my grad classes on this sort of vocabulary-based reading (though there are probably students who need it). It might be a good exercise to get into the TA training course though, on the off chance that they would accept the instruction if disguised as a technique they could teach, rather than one they need to use themselves.
Thank you for posting these! I have been looking for a way to help my CS undergrads with their reading skills, which are very poor.
Comment by BKM — 2011 May 27 @ 03:16 |