Understanding Design – Kees Dors
Learning by doing, Reflection, The tutoring dilemma, Naive design.
After i read the first four parts of understanding design, i begin to understand that why the lecturer do not give me a straight answer for the problems that i have. Although i understood design curricula are based upon learning by doing, sometimes i feel the lecturer are not willing to help and bring me down. I think the lecturer should try to understand the feeling of students who are facing difficulty (lecturer thought they understand but i think they forgot those feelings already). I agree that there are some mediocre students cannot get enough support from their lecturer and they become revolt against lecturer’s discipline (I found them in the class). After those mediocre students felt depressed and less from their lecturer, they use their own ways to solve the problems and those methods that they used are wrong.
I find that the lecturer did not spend too much time for the second year students. They cannot consult with every student in the class time and they cannot give us time to consult with them after class. I did have an experiment that I cannot have a consultation with my lecturer face to face and the only thing i can do is sending him an email and waiting for a comment of my work. There is no reason to understand the difficulties of the lecturer because i have already paid the fee (as a international student, i have a strong feeling that I paid a lot for nothing).
