TITLE: Learning is Change
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: February 04, 2005  9:47 AM
DESC: If you don't want to change, you can't learn much.
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BODY:
I realized yesterday that some of my students are
approaching the course with an attitude of changing
as little as possible: figure out how to do the
assignments without becoming a different kind of
programmer, or person.  That makes learning a new
set of practices, new habits, nearly impossible.
They may not be doing it consciously, but I can see
it in their behavior.  That attitude has a place and
time, but in the classroom -- where learning is the
presumed goal -- it is an impediment.

Lecturing on some dry course content and giving exams
full of objective questions would be a lot easier...
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