Day 5: What I learned …

[karl gromelski]

What I’ve learned…. without real feedback from an instructor or TA, learning to discover “breakthroughs” in some of these assignments is like trying spot UAPs in the sky: was that a plane, helicopter, drone or star? How do I know if I’m right? or even close to being right??

I imagine there’s a point to these examples – but sure would be nice to have somebody who created the lessons to provide their “breakthroughs” so I can compare them to mine… especially when I don’t see any breakthroughs. Yeah, the scenes are good because the films and the acting is good. But without context, many of the scenes are just a good performance. Like A STAR IS BORN: a guy sitting around a parking lot as a girl sings… and?? Dunno. There’s obviously some attraction there because his driver is waiting for him… but how is this attraction more engaging than Clooney & Lopez in the trunk of a car. It’s not.
What’s the point of having forums if there’s no interaction from the instructor? How are we supposed to know what breakthroughs we’re missing if there’s nobody to guide and train a mind to see what they’re not seeing?
The idea of looking up a word in the dictionary to learn how to spell can be an okay way to teach students. But what do you do when the student is trying to learn how to spell “pterodactyl?”