I haven’t written much for this blog so here goes with some
random comments about teaching information literacy.
I still feel the “substitute teacher mentality” with
students and information literacy. Back
in our elementary school days it was party time when a substitute teacher came
in. I think many students see a
librarian coming to their class as an outsider and don’t take the lecture
seriously.
Today I taught my class in how to find physical and
thermodynamic properties of chemical substances. A student sitting right in front of me was
actually sleeping during the lecture. I
could understand if he was in the back, but isn’t it insulting when he dozed
off right in front of the teacher.
A few weeks ago I taught a class to some graduate students
in physics. The professor had coffee and
cake for the students. During the talk
nobody asked questions, but several students approached me after the talk while
eating. I guess they prefer to ask their
questions privately.
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