James

media type="custom" key="17520056" Scanning the above QR code will take you to my google site

media type="custom" key="12454434" Explanation: Throughout high school the majority of my time in class was spent remembering and understanding the information that was presented to me by my teachers. Towards the end of high school in my advanced classes I spent some time on the other end of the spectrum with creating and evaluation, but that was a rare occasion. Even in art classes in elementary school, where someone would expect creativity to flourish, students mostly made and created what they were told to and used methods that we were taught to use. This would have just been another way of seeing if we remembered the techniques we were shown, not whether we really understood the methods that were being used. I think this happened because when I was in school (even though it was not that long ago), it was a different time in American education. Pre-NCLB, what was expected of schools and educators was very different. Remembering and understanding facts was still a critical skill, because the internet was not nearly as developed as it is today.

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