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  5. Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 11:00:50 EDT
  6. Sender:       "Megabyte University (Computers & Writing)" <MBU-L@TTUVM1.BITNET>
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  8. From:         BAHUOT01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU
  9. Subject:      Critical thinking and assigned tasks
  10. In-Reply-To:  note of 09/09/92 06:57
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  13. I think Lili Velez makes some valid points about teacher assumptions concerning
  14. what students want.  I wonder though if it isn't a little naive of us to try
  15. and free students from pedagogical restraints without helping them learn how to
  16.  do it.  I wasn't surprised that the Freshmen at CMU wanted assignments.
  17. That's what they know how to do, and they have been rewarded for doing it.  On
  18. the other hand, if we believe (as most of us do) that to learn how to do
  19. intellectual work a student needs to move beyond just responding to assignments
  20. then we need to structure that within the curriculum, starting with more rigid
  21. assignments and moving to writing and other projects which have less structure.
  22. It's like wanting students to work in peer groups but realizing we have to
  23. show them how to do it.
  24. Brian Huot
  25. University of Louisville
  26.