4.3.6 Some minor but critical faults
4.3.6. Some minor but critical faults ‘Tek frak’, ‘tooterm’, ‘non crit art’, ‘non crit info’, ‘transition’, ‘wow!’ and ‘speed up’ were some of the editing codes used in editing self-study texts in Basic Systems Inc, New York, in the ’60s.I learned a lot from these codes. Usually written in red pencil or red ink, there […]
4.3.7 An always avoidable fault
4.3.7. An always avoidable fault This refers to any breakdown in the relationship between components in referent 2 (the nth generation of the specified needs).Not long ago I was working with a new subject for a new exercise in the Think Tank workshop. Participants had to design a course for spies. They had to teach […]
4.3.8 A fundamental fault
4.3.8. A fundamental fault If I were a millionaire, I would give away T-shirts with a special emblem; designers of instruction (myself included) would get four each. The emblem reminds us of a fundamental truth about ourselves and about our students. This truth has been mentioned before (par. 1.10): each of us has four quadrants […]
4.4 Case study no. 5: Riding out the storm
Case study no. Riding out the storm In this case study we return to the Botany students and their encounter with the use of the scientific method of enquiry into the phenomenon of apical dominance in plants. The results, you will remember, were not all that we hoped for in this think-band-do-for-yourself type of experiment. […]