Florita Robinson

With regard to opening up the classroom to students' use of cellphones to look up discussions to talk about them in small groups.  It's another way of creativity introduced to students' studying and learning, but the problem is they now want to use their cellphones for every period involved. 

In most classroom and workplaces, cellphones are to be silenced.  So having the opportunity to be allowed to use those in class I think is very welcoming to students.  The problem I think is, that it is hard to monitor if students really keep with the subject introduced by the instructor,… >>>

I don't think that the professional development course incorporated in a student's course of study is time consuming or that it is not of help to the student.  Professional development focuses on the soft skills every student/ employee/ person is to possess to be able to succeed in their work environment.  Some students need to hear and be taught about acceptable behaviors and attitudes, morality, and the characteristics valued and rewarded on the job.  Work is important but students/ prospective employees need to know how to communicate and be around customers, clients, patients, or their colleages. 

The Professional Development course… >>>

The subject of the three filters - deletion, distortion, generalization - determining what is of value to the learner I find to be interesting.With regard to distortion, I have come across this with some students. It seemed they focused on the logistical things like "We were told we are to receive notebooks, pencils." And during the courswe of their studies, the focus became something like "Why do we have to learn about a certain step in a procedure when it is not mentoned in the chapter we are studying but in the next?" This even when I mentioned it weas… >>>