In this article, the author discusses how teachers should not merely teach their students content-mastery and problem-solving skills. She believes that teachers should learn about the sources of their students. The author discusses that in order to effectively teach students, teachers must not give everything to their students. Students must be…

Six ways to reverse student disaffection with basic science instruction are proposed, including examining the current medical model critically, changing the emphasis from facts to problem solving, decompressing the dental curriculum, building in redundancy to deepen understanding, developing applied basic science, and reexamining the changing…

Three major approaches to the use of computers in education are examined, serious limitations of each are presented, and questions are raised as to the efficacy of technologolizing education. The drill and practice approach is shown to embody a deterministic, behavioral technology that turns learning into a systematically-designed and…