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"Feel" Class
Oct. 8th, 2009 08:30 pmWeek 6
Day 10
Probably the most interesting thing about this period was there was nothing seriously awful about it. She showed us the slides that weren't shown due to the projector malfunction last class and then let the students do their presentations. Funny (but not surprising) that we didn't go back to the video we barely started. I really wanted to see that, you know. So did a lot of my classmates.
Mispronunciation of the day:
* "Feel" for fail. This is interesting because one of the members of my science fair group in high school, also Mainland Chinese, would always pronounce whale as "wheel", and our project was on whales. There must be something about the way that they learn this /eɪ/ phoneme that makes them confuse it with /iː/. Therefore Failwhale = "Feelwheel."
Day 11
So the elaboration on what's required for the reflection paper is as follows: recall two or three events from my school experience and discuss them critically with respect to one or more of the readings for the class. I'm not really sure how it's possible to "critically analyze" a personal, subjective experience, but okay.
Again, today's two presentations were excellent. They worked from notes but were spontaneous, one group gave out extensive handouts that had a long summary of the reading only, and then talked with a little more detail and some extra sources.
I'm starting to get a bit annoyed with the "critical pedagogy" discourse. Freedom! Democracy! Boo to hegemony! Call the Waahmbulance.
Day 10
Probably the most interesting thing about this period was there was nothing seriously awful about it. She showed us the slides that weren't shown due to the projector malfunction last class and then let the students do their presentations. Funny (but not surprising) that we didn't go back to the video we barely started. I really wanted to see that, you know. So did a lot of my classmates.
Mispronunciation of the day:
* "Feel" for fail. This is interesting because one of the members of my science fair group in high school, also Mainland Chinese, would always pronounce whale as "wheel", and our project was on whales. There must be something about the way that they learn this /eɪ/ phoneme that makes them confuse it with /iː/. Therefore Failwhale = "Feelwheel."
Day 11
So the elaboration on what's required for the reflection paper is as follows: recall two or three events from my school experience and discuss them critically with respect to one or more of the readings for the class. I'm not really sure how it's possible to "critically analyze" a personal, subjective experience, but okay.
Again, today's two presentations were excellent. They worked from notes but were spontaneous, one group gave out extensive handouts that had a long summary of the reading only, and then talked with a little more detail and some extra sources.
I'm starting to get a bit annoyed with the "critical pedagogy" discourse. Freedom! Democracy! Boo to hegemony! Call the Waahmbulance.
