Sunday, May 13, 2012

Further concept/s

Although I believe that as a class and individually we spent quite a bit of time understanding and analyzing inductive and deductive arguments, I also thought that I could have learned these types of arguments a bit more. The difference between Inductive and deductive reasoning were clear, but when I put everything together it seemed to mess up my thinking. The arguments seemed to be less understandable, so I had to repeatedly go back to the boss text and try to understand the arguments over and over again. This concept didn’t need further discussion because the book explained it well. It did need more examples and exercises so that we could practice understanding the concepts. If we could have had a couple more examples of these types of arguments, I think I would have understood the concepts better. Although this is so, all the other concepts in the readings were quite understandable.

likes and dislikes

In this class my favorite thing was that I could speak to all the students without really knowing who they were. It was fun stating my opinions on their blogg because we could speak freely and with an open mind. I really liked that we could all do this and respect each other as well. One of the things I did not like was that sometimes I would like to ask students questions about the class and they wouldn't respond on time or even at all. I would really like to interact a little more with my classmates. Although I like that we can interact with one another anonymously, I do not like that it is hard to communicate with each other. One way to fix this is to maybe have the opportunity to meet once every so often as a class and still have our anonymous blogg online. Hopefully this helps. I enjoyed taking this course!