Keith Keller

Not sure where this goes: 

In Nuclear Navy training, if a student did poorly on an exam or practical, an "REMEDIAL" was issued.  This was in addition to the standard qual card, requiring a student to make up, re learn, recheck out or requalify on the items missed.  It required extra effort to maintain timing of the program requirements. This also happened with qualified operators at times. 

in civilian education, Some professors have given make up exams or second (even third) exams so that students could get good grades... and demonstrate knowledge or proficiency... wanting to be on the students… >>>

in the military (nuclear navy) and qualification card was use to docuement knowleges and skill... if you could demonstrate knowledge, or perform this skill, you would get a signature on the qual card (similar to badging in the civilian education world). If not, you studied more, and were trained more, until you could pass the knowledge check or demostrate proficiency.

Think Forest Gump assembling his rifle.

If the institution is ABET accredited, having a new instructor complete ABET documetion, without any guidance, seems problematic with ongoing periodic trends. 

Part of IDCTE is to train teachers - specifically new teachers, and to certify them to some standard level. 

Orienting new teachers and assessing their capabilities should be the educational institutions responsibility, with IDCTE as a partner, which goes beyond the initial week of orientation.... Deans, department heads, program directors and whomever else should be part of the orientation and assessment team.  Mentors should be assigned.  A year long program of 1 semester observation, then 1 semester "student teaching" should be followed, with feedback to the new instruction.

1st year observation should not be the new instructor sitting in the… >>>

An interesting take on these generational differences is Morris Massey:

What you are now is what you were when...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6rPiehHQu8

There are modern updates to his theory that i was introduced to back in 1985.

One other concept that should be considered for this course is Helicopter parents

Helicopter parenting, defined as overprotective, micromanaging involvement, became prominent with Baby Boomers raising Millennials (Gen Y) in the 1990s/2000s, driven by economic shifts and perceived dangers, but is now increasingly seen in Millennial parents raising Gen Z and Gen Alpha, focusing on self-esteem and success, sometimes leading to indecisiveness in their children. 
Key Generations & Their Parenting Styles:
Baby Boomers (Parents): Often the original "helicopter parents," hovering over their Millennial children to ensure success, sometimes overly involved due to economic prosperity and anxiety.
Generation X (Parents):… >>>

One thing that should also be considered for new teachers, and managers and administrators of new teachers, is that the upcoming generations are also part of the Cancel Culture... 

If they don't like a restaurant - they will post it on social media, and others will do the same.

Likewise, if a new teacher struggles and the Cohort doesn't like the teacher, they will make their dissatisfaction known and Cancel the teacher.

Wise program directors, department chairs, and deans should make extra effort to bring in new teachers, especially those of Silent, Baby Boomers or Gen X when teaching Gen… >>>

The internet originally was provided as a means to increase communication and access to information... Google searches provided real information.

As time goes on, the internet is riddled with inaccurate information, spin, whatever the funding paying the researcher wants to discuss, or MSM story that they want to convey to the sheep.

It is no longer about access to information, it is about discernment of which information is true, or accurate... This used to be done in the library with scientific publication... now anyone with an opinion can post content and sell it to make it believable. 

New literacy… >>>

The first answer to thinking break in this module only say "IT". 

Why is it important for instructors to ask learners to orally defend why they answered a question or solved a problem as they did?

In the Nuclear Navy, assurity would be tested by asking the student if they would "Bet a coke/soda on it".  Sometimes the student was "sure enough in his answer" to say yes... and the student or instructor would buy a soda and provided it to the winning party.  More often than not, the student was wrong... but not always, and at time the instructor would pay out just to test the student.

Sometimes the student… >>>