Philosophy Team (UW La Crosse)

For Logic Proofs:
We noticed that many of the students were alert even for an 8:50 class. We noticed that many of the student pairs worked well together, and seem geniunely committed to the tasks.

There was perhaps too much material to cover in a 50 minute course. This lesson might work better if steps 1-3 were already mastered.

We might change the name of one component of the lesson--to pragmatic questions as opposed to kinds...The space of the clssroom might be more fully utilized for the small group work.

Overall the class was very successful. Nearly all of the students were engaged in active learning.

On Doing Phenomenology:
All of the students participated in the process. Professor Maly commented on how the camera disrupted the natural flow of the class more so than in the logic class. We covered too much material for one class period.  So, one change would be in the amount of material or the time it takes to cover it. We noticed a gap between the students being able to experience the phenemena and their ability to articulate it using the technical jargon. We wondered how important being able to use the jargon is as compared to noticing what is going on. We decided that although using the jargon is important for further discussions in philosophy at this point it is even more important to focus on the phenomena and noticing that.

The aspects that could be changed were: more use of board, less material, and no camera.

The strategies with the jug and the experiential experiences were quite effective.

Contacts: kramer.eric@uwlax.edu, maly.kenn@uwlax.edu, ross.sher@uwlax.edu
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Comments

[Sheri Ross]

This was a far different feeling experience from the previous lesson. This is a much larger class, roughly 90 students, than the previous course. The room set up was quite good. We placed the chair on top of a table to enable the viewing of all the students. The participation was very good. About 20 students volunteered responses when asked for participation. A few more illustrative stories would have improved comprehension of the more difficult points. Over all a fine class.