Make UBC's phys 157/158 teacher centered!

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Was 9/11 really that bad?

I struggled with this class last year and did not like the teaching method. I agree to changing the teaching style.

youre a bunch o queers. stop being bad at school

Make PHYS great again!

Regardless of how interesting the physics 157/158 course is, it has always only been a struggle for me because I could never understand what ever was going on in class.You can't expect us to read the book, and understand physics.We sometimes just spend hours on one example , or a bunch of clickers , and not explanation of theory.

Kahn Academy has taught me more than anything in lecture has. Flip classroom learning is not necessarily a bad thing, it just has to be done right but PHYS 157/158 does not work. You can't expect students to learn the material from reading a textbook and then spend 3 lectures on one example and believe that is sufficient. Consider APSC 160, the videos and the notes that accompany them are incredibly well done. Furthermore, a part of what makes APSC 160 successful is the relevant worksheets and the amount of TA's that come around and help. In PHYS 157, there were more worksheets but one TA and one professor cannot help 300 some students. Of course we try and work together, but that doesn't work when nobody understands what is going on.

You cant see me in class

Gas the jews. Race war now

Physics is a class that is probably best taught taught with the old school blackboard method. Clicker Questions of things we haven't learnt before in class is pointless to the idea of clickers.

I literally learnt more in a 6 hours crash course than 1.5 on the in class.

this would be motivation to actually go and participate in class

I agree, Down with Ali

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We're not quite in agreement here. Please turn to your neighbour and discuss the solution.

Though I appreciate the thought, there are far more effective ways of voicing our concerns, like compiling a list of grieviances as a class and submitting them through our academic representative, who has far more tools at his disposal to make changes.

UBC, please teach instead of making students learn material on their own. Students paid for the course.

Profs should be teaching this course rather than students learning on their own through pre-readings.

Absolutely. The style of teaching as it is makes it not worth anyone's time to show up to the lectures.