03-30-2016, 01:25 PM
I also ask about what they want to learn, and ask them if they know the basics for making that kind of mechanism (except if is teaching the basics). I try to have a good time and have fun while teaching, me and the student, so they don't see it boring, learning has to be fun and interesting. That's one of the things I've learned from my irl teachers of last year. I make jokes, and maybe some puns, but I don't stop teaching the concept they want to learn. The best option is being nice to the student, do not give up because the student doesn't understand and don't let the student give up. I actively teach on the school server, and usually they say they are not good with redstone, they are stupid, or they can't know many things. What a teacher can do is motivate them, tell them you didn't know that things in the past, tell them he can not because everything is possible, but because someone did too. I've went through many bad times, overall in my actual grade (1st ESO of Spanish Edu. System), the people say I only can study, and not play or have fun, they insult me or try to approach I'm clever to do their homework (I evidently don't help them). But I've learned one thing, don't let anyone take you down, don't let anyone change your way of being, be yourself and fuck anyone that insults you, for any reason. YOU are YOU, don't torture yourself saying you cannot do things because if you want, you can.
One problem of the human being is that we tend to make easy things harder. For example, Cronax3/FabuKiller wanted to learn the basics, I taught him the simplest and better way possible, or A_Master, he wants to build a CPU and I'm helping him, but he puts things that himself doesn't know what are they for, I ask him what is that for, and they tell me he doesn't know. But that is not the problem, anyone can fail, but he got nervous. I told him to calm, and we started using logic. An advice for learning: Don't anticipate the lessons, don't make things harder, things are as is, they have an utility and a meaning. Don't mess yourself. Also, one day someone called me Professor, when was a visitor and wanted someone to promote him, I talked politely to him. I told him that he doesn't need to worry about the tag, he could call me just Crim, because we are there to help without any distinction of the others, anyways, he called me Prof. Crim. I think we, the teachers, don't need to be called that way, we are people like the student, the teacher rank is not different to the builder rank except for some things. The teacher tag is not a privilege, is a way of showing the students you can help them and you are qualified to help them, they will call you before a builder because they now know that you can help him.
No, I'm not Shia BeLouf, or however the name is spelled. But we, the teachers, are here to help students.
I also think, as ddthj says, this is a "streamlined ALU factory we have going right now". Students learn addition logic and RCA ALU, but they should learn more complex concepts, I learned how to make basic control-line CPUs in school. School is not an obstacle, but a resource for learning.
One problem of the human being is that we tend to make easy things harder. For example, Cronax3/FabuKiller wanted to learn the basics, I taught him the simplest and better way possible, or A_Master, he wants to build a CPU and I'm helping him, but he puts things that himself doesn't know what are they for, I ask him what is that for, and they tell me he doesn't know. But that is not the problem, anyone can fail, but he got nervous. I told him to calm, and we started using logic. An advice for learning: Don't anticipate the lessons, don't make things harder, things are as is, they have an utility and a meaning. Don't mess yourself. Also, one day someone called me Professor, when was a visitor and wanted someone to promote him, I talked politely to him. I told him that he doesn't need to worry about the tag, he could call me just Crim, because we are there to help without any distinction of the others, anyways, he called me Prof. Crim. I think we, the teachers, don't need to be called that way, we are people like the student, the teacher rank is not different to the builder rank except for some things. The teacher tag is not a privilege, is a way of showing the students you can help them and you are qualified to help them, they will call you before a builder because they now know that you can help him.
No, I'm not Shia BeLouf, or however the name is spelled. But we, the teachers, are here to help students.
I also think, as ddthj says, this is a "streamlined ALU factory we have going right now". Students learn addition logic and RCA ALU, but they should learn more complex concepts, I learned how to make basic control-line CPUs in school. School is not an obstacle, but a resource for learning.