Welcome to Lucian's Pedagogy.

This site contains information to help you understand the marking process in humanities, creative arts and science essays.

Please read the Table of Contents (Welcome!) . To earn A, (in an assignment, to have a healthy baby or use 50 As to earn a job) please visit the Anarchy Quiz.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Robot Helpers

Students who are helped often perform better.  Pretend you are talking with another student who is helped.  Say the student is helped with a mathematics question, e.g. D = b^2 - 4ac, by you.  After this, pretend the student helps you with your work.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

High quality source

Are you interested in writing as if you were using a high quality source of ideas?

Top student

Think of telling the lecturer you would like to be a top student.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Spectrum

Think of how each colour is related to each of the 5 reasons in your essay.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

War test

Think of the following:
  • Are you ready for the test?
  • Yes.
  • Good.  You've passed the test.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Inexpensive models

Think of inexpensive objects which can be used to model the objects in your arguments. For example, a bullet being deflected from kevlar can be modeled by a plastic ball bouncing off a plastic shield. People can also be modeled using mannequins.

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