Comments on: For Teachers and Students (5): Discussion Questions for the Truman Show http://alinihatekenblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/for-teachers-and-students-5-discussion-questions-for-the-truman-show/ In Turkish and in English since July 30, 2007 / Istanbul, Turkey Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:59:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: bob http://alinihatekenblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/for-teachers-and-students-5-discussion-questions-for-the-truman-show/#comment-2498 bob Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:02:07 +0000 http://alinihatekenblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/for-teachers-and-students-5-discussion-questions-for-the-truman-show/#comment-2498 please none of u are making sense. Just to let you know their is definitely always a right answer except in religion. please none of u are making sense.
Just to let you know their is definitely always a right answer except in religion.

]]> By: Dan http://alinihatekenblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/for-teachers-and-students-5-discussion-questions-for-the-truman-show/#comment-2417 Dan Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:42:01 +0000 http://alinihatekenblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/for-teachers-and-students-5-discussion-questions-for-the-truman-show/#comment-2417 Margaret, There is an obivous difference between a right answer and a valid response. The idea that there are no right answers is absurd. Disagreement about what the right answer is in no way indicates that no right answer is available. We do not have universal agreement regarding the formation of the universe, but that certainly does not mean that there is no correct answer to the question of its formation. Even in math there are disagreements about what the right answers are. Fermet's last theorem was debated for hundreds of years, but that did not mean there was no correct answer. Right answers might be exceedingly difficult to find or determine, but that does not justify the claim that there are no right answers. I'm sure your intention was simply to state that students' ideas are evaluated in terms of process and presentation rather than content. But in making that uncontroversial claim, you overstate your case to the point of making an obvious error. Margaret,

There is an obivous difference between a right answer and a valid response. The idea that there are no right answers is absurd. Disagreement about what the right answer is in no way indicates that no right answer is available. We do not have universal agreement regarding the formation of the universe, but that certainly does not mean that there is no correct answer to the question of its formation. Even in math there are disagreements about what the right answers are. Fermet’s last theorem was debated for hundreds of years, but that did not mean there was no correct answer. Right answers might be exceedingly difficult to find or determine, but that does not justify the claim that there are no right answers.

I’m sure your intention was simply to state that students’ ideas are evaluated in terms of process and presentation rather than content. But in making that uncontroversial claim, you overstate your case to the point of making an obvious error.

]]> By: Margaret http://alinihatekenblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/for-teachers-and-students-5-discussion-questions-for-the-truman-show/#comment-2380 Margaret Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:01:53 +0000 http://alinihatekenblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/for-teachers-and-students-5-discussion-questions-for-the-truman-show/#comment-2380 Audrey-As every English teacher knows, there are NO 'right answers'. English is not Maths! There might be several valid responses. In Australia, we encourage students to have genuine responses that might differ from those of their teachers. So long as the student has not catastrophically misread the text, if s/he can argue fluently for a POV, and support argument points by citing relevant textual detail, then all will be well. Students of course need lots of encouragement to express their original ideas as the spectre of 'being wrong' haunts them and is often the root cause of the plagiarism that is the scourge of the intellectual community at present. All this is both a challenge and a joy to the committed secondary English teacher. Audrey-As every English teacher knows, there are NO ‘right answers’. English is not Maths! There might be several valid responses. In Australia, we encourage students to have genuine responses that might differ from those of their teachers. So long as the student has not catastrophically misread the text, if s/he can argue fluently for a POV, and support argument points by citing relevant textual detail, then all will be well.

Students of course need lots of encouragement to express their original ideas as the spectre of ‘being wrong’ haunts them and is often the root cause of the plagiarism that is the scourge of the intellectual community at present.

All this is both a challenge and a joy to the committed secondary English teacher.

]]> By: Audrey http://alinihatekenblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/for-teachers-and-students-5-discussion-questions-for-the-truman-show/#comment-2356 Audrey Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:24:44 +0000 http://alinihatekenblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/for-teachers-and-students-5-discussion-questions-for-the-truman-show/#comment-2356 As a teacher could i possibly have the answers? As a teacher could i possibly have the answers?

]]> By: Jacob http://alinihatekenblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/for-teachers-and-students-5-discussion-questions-for-the-truman-show/#comment-2066 Jacob Fri, 16 May 2008 00:16:45 +0000 http://alinihatekenblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/for-teachers-and-students-5-discussion-questions-for-the-truman-show/#comment-2066 lol now i know where my media studies teacher gets all his essay questions from. lol now i know where my media studies teacher gets all his essay questions from.

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