Reading, researching, writing, reciting, reviewing and remembering': revitied with technology

摘要

To understand today, search yesterday. As an impressionable group of student teachers listened in the 1970s to the late Thomas "Cotton" Neely, former teacher, coach, and advisor at Lubbock, Texas' Monterey High School, a question from the back of theroom prompted an answer from Mr. Neely. "How do you continually motivate students to learn and excel in judging events, especially livestock and meat judging?" Cotton, as he was fondly called, responded without fanfare, "That's easy. Just use the six Rs: Have students read it, research it in the book, write it down, recite the answer, review the answer, and give them a test to find if they remember it." Keep in mind, this answer was from a master agriculture teacher in an educational era devoid of computers, e-mail, digital cameras, or VCRs--where transparencies, 35 mm slide sets, mimeographed handouts, and chalkboards were the rule.