This week I audited a lecture given by the lead professor of a big mechanical engineering course that I’m involved in, modestly. I was there to signal my interest and get some information on an upcoming assignment.
At some point, the students were prompted to draw a human-powered hovercraft. I was sitting next to another [...]
Archive for the ‘novice’ Category
- Not too comfortable
Posted in experiment, notebook, novice, students on September 26, 2009 | 7 Comments »
- What they teach us
Posted in novice, students, teach on May 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On Wednesday afternoon, I went to capstone presentations by students graduating from Mount Ida College, where I used to teach and run the writing center. Events like these seem more a measure of educational outcomes than any standardized test or GPA could ever be. The students were poised, engaged, knowledgeable, professional, and comfortable discussing both [...]
- Fire starters
Posted in impulse, novice, word on January 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
When my sister Sally and I were children, we lit the woods behind our house on fire. This is a true story, one I have said out loud many times yet never written down.
I was about 10 years old then, and my friend Doreen and I had been lighting little fires in the woods for [...]
- Power tool
Posted in collaborate, experiment, novice, parent, stitch, teach on December 31, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A few weeks ago, Eli came across instructions online for making his own messenger bag out of fused plastic bags. He e-mailed it to me and asked if we could make one. In the past few days, we did.
An absolute novice, he approached the sewing machine tentatively yet was open to advice [...]
- Master/Novice
Posted in artist, novice, students, teach, word on October 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Since writing the “Wide eyed” post on novices, I’ve been seeing references to newness everywhere. (Is my unconscious attention looking for them?)
Shirin Neshat, a “visual artist who works primarily in video,” has produced a body of work — Passage (2001), for example — that has garnered prizes and earned permanent placement in the collections of [...]
- Wide eyed
Posted in novice, students, teach on October 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
At a conference of developmental educators today, I learned something from one of the speakers. If a person is a novice — a student was given as the example — that person could be considered “unconsciously incompetent.” If a person is an expert — a professor was given as the example — that person could [...]
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I'm Jane Kokernak, a writer who teaches college students and also gardens, makes things, and putters around. Here I blog about all that and sometimes digress; favorite people make an occasional appearance, too. Send e-mail to jane dot kokernak @ gmail dot com. -
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