http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2008/08/27/monicas-comment/ Technology is neither the problem nor the solution. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:24:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2008/08/27/monicas-comment/#comment-10803 Elizabeth Freeman Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:58:11 +0000 http://durandus.com/phaedrus/?p=221#comment-10803 I think that learning is a difficult term to define and it is hard, almost impossible to measure learning. As teachers we measure what we teach the students, but as said in this posting we have no way of determining if the students actually learned the content 5 or 10 years down the road. Plus there is also the factor as to what type of test is being administered. Some students perform better on essay exams, while others do better on multiple choice. I do not think that learning means memorizing something for a test, which I have been guilty of. There have been many tests that I got A's on because of memorization, not learning. To me learning means that you remember something for a long time. I think that learning is a difficult term to define and it is hard, almost impossible to measure learning. As teachers we measure what we teach the students, but as said in this posting we have no way of determining if the students actually learned the content 5 or 10 years down the road. Plus there is also the factor as to what type of test is being administered. Some students perform better on essay exams, while others do better on multiple choice. I do not think that learning means memorizing something for a test, which I have been guilty of. There have been many tests that I got A’s on because of memorization, not learning. To me learning means that you remember something for a long time.

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