Nice post at Liz’s mamamusings::
http://mamamusings.net/archives/2004/05/03/teaching_new_technologies.php
I enjoy Liz’s stuff a lot. This one I particularly liked.
As a fella who someday would like to teach, this bit was interesting:
The future, I think, is to let go of the traditional approach of teaching how to do things in a specific language, and instead offer a more studio-like environment in which students are given access to resources and tools, and then work on developing a project. (We teach most of our classes in ?studio mode,? but in most cases they?re far from real studio approaches?they?re lectures with occasional hands-on exercises.) Surprisingly, it?s the students who are often most resistant to this mode of teaching?we?ve successfully conditioned them to see school as a series of core dumps, and switching gears into a more user-directed model often generates resentment and confusion rather than enthusiasm and creativity.