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I have found when students lack basic knowledge teaching from a completely different angle than what other instructors are using gets many on track.

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I totally agree with you. I call this generation the "microwave" generation. They want everything now and want to be spoon fed. Trying to get them to critically think is a lot harder these days.

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I feel that basic knowledge is slowly dissipating with the new generation of students. I call it the "entitled Gen" sometimes it gets very frustrating when students don't use common sense and basic knowledge, just think before they do... I wonder sometimes if they really don't have these skills or they just don't care.

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Basic knowledge is used to show what the student knows.

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During the setup involving presentation of mock surgery cases, all the students are given a model to start them in the direction of future development of their own particular styles of preparation of their back table & Mayo stand. Different approaches of tackling a task is encouraged in order that I may discern where their though processes are heading.

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Encouraging students to perfom different types of tasks helps us to know what direction to lead them with

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I teach in the areas of Finance as well as in Management Information Systems. In both, the computer is used, a whole lot more in MIS than in Finance. I tend to insist my students never use Macros or built-in functions. It inhibits their understanding of the basic concepts.

KGBishop

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Skills performed by the students during class help me know that they understand the concept of what they are supposed to know

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my students demonstrate basic knowledge by there cooking skills