Aldo Foot: >> I think a possible explanation is that there a different learning >> styles. For instance Visual Spatial Learners learn by visualization >> and not by reading. For some folks reading is quite a chore. Some >> people "see things in their heads" and reading requires some mental >> translation. Ric Moore: > Inmates particularly fall into those two categories. It's why the > prison system fails so abysmally when trying to use traditional > classroom materials. I agree 100% with your observation and it is our > core-mission-statement towards using other methods to teach within our > DOC's. It goes back further than that, in the initial education of people. I spent years working in schools, many of them working with students who didn't fit into the way the school worked (schools mentality is that everyone is the same, we'll pretend they're the same, we'll try and force them to be the same, and we'll all teach them the same, even when it doesn't work). They'd do badly, cause trouble, get in trouble, etc. To be honest, I preferred working with those people. They were much more interesting, and generally much more enthusiastic about being involved in what they were learning, once you'd found their niche. I liked the non-academic work, we actually *did* stuff. And I think it's far less a waste of time than the academic work I was put through, we were all pressed into the english, high level maths, and sciences, told we needed them for further education, and it was all a lie. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
