[game_edu] Brenda Braithwaite's game_edu rant at GDC

[Ian Schreiber]

I think you do a good job of classifying the problem. But is there a solution? 
Or are you saying that there is no solution, we should just give up and go back 
to the master/apprentice model?





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From: Katrin Becker <becker at minkhollow.ca>
To: IGDA Game Education Listserv <game_edu at igda.org>
Sent: Tue, March 8, 2011 11:42:43 AM
Subject: Re: [game_edu] Brenda Braithwaite's game_edu rant at GDC

There's the rub: teaching is simply NOT efficient. Learning takes     TIME and 
PRACTICE.

There are ways to do teach programming fundamentals, but most     computer 
science departments still don't know how. I would not, for     the most part, 
look to computer science departments for answers     about how to teach 
programming. They have always been geared to     teaching programming to people 
who:
1. really WANT to learn how to program
2. are pre-disposed to being able to learn it easily

The teaching methods have a tendency to select only for those sorts     of 
people who learn like they did. They're not normally useful for     teaching 
people who aren't like the teachers. The same is true for     quite a few 
disciplines.

On 3/8/2011 9:19 AM, Simon Etienne Rozner wrote: 


>

>I would love to find a way that makes the students lifes         easier and my 

>teaching more efficient by being able to avoid the         endless one on one 

>sessions.


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Adjunct           ProfessorSchool           of Interactive Arts and Technology, 
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