The banking model: instructors act as the depositors of knowledge. They are authoritative and place themselves in a privileged position in both real classrooms and online courses.
DePew and Lettner-Rust discuss the “gaze” in the writing classroom as recently advocating collaboration, but still using traditional methods of information dissemination. With this method, too much time is spent on grammar, mechanics, and proper citation instruction.
G + H try to handle this problem by having students evaluate each others’ work, having them read aloud, and even assigning mini-essays for practice. This pulls away from the banking model and allows students to work together, removing ultimate authority from the instructor.
Moodle workshops allow students to compare their work to other students’. An online course helps to remove the powerful gaze from the instructor, thus encouraging further discussion with fellow students. A workshop takes away a lot of work on the part of the instructor, while simultaneously forcing collaboration.
This veers away from the traditional banking model toward the collaborative style that many theoreticians now advocate for writing classrooms.
The banking model: instructors act as the depositors of knowledge. They are authoritative and place themselves in a privileged position in both real classrooms and online courses.
DePew and Lettner-Rust discuss the “gaze” in the writing classroom as recently advocating collaboration, but still using traditional methods of information dissemination. With this method, too much time is spent on grammar, mechanics, and proper citation instruction.
G + H try to handle this problem by having students evaluate each others’ work, having them read aloud, and even assigning mini-essays for practice. This pulls away from the banking model and allows students to work together, removing ultimate authority from the instructor.
Moodle workshops allow students to compare their work to other students’. An online course helps to remove the powerful gaze from the instructor, thus encouraging further discussion with fellow students. A workshop takes away a lot of work on the part of the instructor, while simultaneously forcing collaboration.
This veers away from the traditional banking model toward the collaborative style that many theoreticians now advocate for writing classrooms.