John Marucco

John Marucco

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Logic is a discipline. Some A(s) are B(s) Some B(s) are A(s) therefore all A(s) are B(s) is by definition is illogical. It seems on occasion that teachers are using logic and effort interchangeably. A student can exert effort and should be rewarded, students can have opinions and should be rewarded for thinking about the course content, but they cannot have their own logic. When we grade the process holistically don't we run the risk of rewarding illogical thinking because he student puts forth effort?

In college I worked with a professor who researched memory. He worked with word lists and recall. He found that although there are many urban legends that say seeing with your eyes and hearing with your ears improves memory, ergo videos have to be the best way to learn, since you see and hear something together. Unfortunately that is the opposite of what we see when we run memory experiments. If you read the word dog, you are able to easily form a mental picture of a dog, showing a picture of the dog and saying to word has no… >>>

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