Click the kids
May. 13th, 2007 03:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lilfluffWhile reading a page about clicker training animals a list was given of animals that have been successfully trained using the clicker method. Dolphins (aparently where it started), dogs, cats, rabbits, fish... Somewhere in the midst of the list I mentally tagged on, "children," simply as a joke.
Next paragraph? Mention that the same methodology used with humans is referred to as TAGteach. We can't embarrass the students, gymnists, or sports team members by letting them know "dog training" techniques are being used on them. So instead of talking about a clicker it's all about tagging or, "Teaching with Acoustical Guidance."
Hey, if it works great. Positive reinforcement rocks, negative reinforcement sucks, but I have to wonder how many kids who have been TAGged are then surprised when they run into clicking. "Whoa, that's the same thing coach does. Wait a minute... They've been using dog training on me!"
Why not just call it clicking from the start? Oh wait, because then someone wouldn't get a bright shiny new trademark.
(What? No I'm pretty sure I'm not up way too late... what? Yikes, um, off to bed now...)
Next paragraph? Mention that the same methodology used with humans is referred to as TAGteach. We can't embarrass the students, gymnists, or sports team members by letting them know "dog training" techniques are being used on them. So instead of talking about a clicker it's all about tagging or, "Teaching with Acoustical Guidance."
Hey, if it works great. Positive reinforcement rocks, negative reinforcement sucks, but I have to wonder how many kids who have been TAGged are then surprised when they run into clicking. "Whoa, that's the same thing coach does. Wait a minute... They've been using dog training on me!"
Why not just call it clicking from the start? Oh wait, because then someone wouldn't get a bright shiny new trademark.
(What? No I'm pretty sure I'm not up way too late... what? Yikes, um, off to bed now...)
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Date: 2007-05-13 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-13 10:09 pm (UTC)Although if we made sure the X stood for eXtreme we could probably pass it off as something, "Hip and cool, something the kids will really dig. It will prove teachers are the kind of hep cats who really get it not a bunch of squares." (Ouch, I think I just pulled my sarcasm resulting in a sprained irony)
Just never, ever, let the kids see that sentence. :)