Week #13 - Academics vs. Education

Still feeling cynical, by the way. Be warned. Here lie dragons.
     "Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn."- Benjamin Franklin. From this quote the question was asked "How can your education at USI be based on involvement?" Well for starters, we could get more professors that actually care about their students. The ratio, in my opinion, of caring to shit professors is about 50/50. Half of my professors are really great and teach in a way that I understand and connect to. However, the other half could care less about their students and instead they drone on and on in their lectures not even looking us in the eyes. (You know who you are!!!)
     If teachers were more involved, their students would be more involved. For example, my psychology professor was teaching us a lesson about neurons. And since people don't really regularly see or talk about neurons, they can be hard to understand. So to get us to understand how neurons worked, the professor go the whole class to stand up with our arms in a certain position and we had to pass a ball around like a neuron would transmit a signal. She involved us, and we learned! 
    As I preciously said, a lot of our classes are basically a serious of lectures where the professor drones on and on about a subject you could not care less about. Instead if classes involved more discussion and hands on learning people would be able to learn better. For example, in my English 201 class we spend a lot of time discussing current issues. Even if you knew nothing about an issue before the class, after the discussion you have learned both sides on an issue. Getting students talking in a class is key. Most people need to think out loud and discuss in order to cement knowledge into their brains. I know that discussing something after I have learned it makes me understand the concept much better! 
     So bottom line? You want us to be involved? Involve us.