Julia DiGiorgio<\/p>\n\n\n\n

29 September, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WRT120<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                Topic #4 Course Based Learning <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The course-based learning atmosphere at West Chester University is \u201clearning\u201d by the student\u2019s choice, initiative, and action. In Freire\u2019s essay, \u201cThe Banking Concept of Education\u201d, he addresses the issue of student learning and the freedom within it. Bio100 taught at West Chester is a course-based class that needs to be changed in order to educate the students at WCU. This course contains 150 people per class and strictly note taking the whole time. On the other hand, the syllabus is lying to the school and the students taking the class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freire\u2019s essay he states that \u201cWords are emptied of their concreteness and become a hollow, alienated, and alienating verbosity.\u201d (page one paragraph 2). The PowerPoint presentations become exactly what Freire wrote, words become so meaningless and boring it loses the attention and ability to learn and process the information. Bio100 is a grade of an exam and the lab grade. There is no attendance grade not showing that people are even going to these long lectures which seem pointless to students when they cannot even process and learn the information in class.  In the class syllabus the very first learning outcome states that \u201cGeneral Education Goal #1: Communicate effectively. \u201cWhen in reality the information is not being addressed in an effective way to students. Freire wrote \u201cTeachers limit creativity of students\u201d (paragraph 5 page 1) I completely agree with Freire because there is actually no creativity being produced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The syllabus has several points that the class should contain in which it is not completing. There are several student learning objectives in which so far, the class has failed to accomplish. This course claims to \u201cSLO: Employ quantitative methods to examine a problem in the natural or physical world.\u201dIn this course we have not done anything that we can apply to a problem in the real world. The labs we finish are completed on a computer and there is no hands-on completion to completely know what is going on and learn effectively from it. Another goal is that \u201cGeneral Education Goal #2: Think critically and analytically\u201d In this course there is no time or things to do that involve thinking critically and analytically. The whole 50 minutes is copying the PowerPoint and not doing anything to actually challenge ourselves. The only way to study is by memorization and little challenging and actually process the information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

West Chester University needs to address the reality that course-based learning is not an effective way to learn considering it is memorization that is used for the course and never used again. There are several ideas I have to change Bio100 for the better. The interaction with groups or group projects will not only help process the information to students but it also encourages social interaction and relationships. The labs should be modified to understand the concept of what we are learning and apply it to real life situations and not a multiple choice lab. The class needs to be modified in an effective way for the students and not so much of a convient way for the teacher. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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