I would love to write a book for newbie as well as experienced computer instructors in which I put the essence of my experience and views about how best to teach computer material.

Description

Aim

I would love to write a book in which I put my experience in teaching computer material. I should write many real stories about real situations and real cases I came through during teaching computer courses. This would make a book interesting and involving besides demonstrating my ideas clearly and in a way close to the heart and mind rather than in a dry theoretical manner.

Content

The book can include a section (or more) abut how to create tutorials or computer instructional material such as creating computer books or even designing and creating complete computer courses. The book can also talk about the concept of from specs to tutorials that point out the ailing problem of many computer learning material which goes directly from specs translating them into a tutorial which results in training material that is poorly digested by the human brain and as a result not very useful.

Human Brain

After relating the many real stories, I can then proceed to conclude my model of the human brain and how it differs from the computer ‘brain’. The problem is that computer instructors have been dealing too much with computers (and perhaps less with humans or non-computer-addicted humans) that they tend to treat students in the same way they treat computers and expect them to behave and react in ways similar to a computer. This not only disables students by overexpecting their performance in specific areas, but it also wastes a lot of their brain abilities by not tackling such abilities because the instructor is not aware of such human brain abilities or is not used to dealing with such abilities simply because they are lacking in computer ‘brains’.

For example, an inexperienced instructor may expect students to memorize all pieces of info he has given them indefinitely simply because a computer can normally do that. An experienced instructor however would know that students can normally forget many of the pieces of information he has provided them even within a short period of time. A good instructor would thus repeat and revise the same concepts and info several times and would never scold or make fun of a student who asks about some concept that the instructor has mentioned perhaps only once. People forget, they need repetition for their memory to work well, computers do not.

Guide

A complete guide would be given for how to deliver the first session of a course to students who are new to you, how to start and finish each training session, how to handle lab times, different types of students and how to deal with them … etc.

Implementation

Obstacles

• Finding an agent or publisher.

First Step

• Upload parts of the book to a self-publishing site such as Lulu.com.

Progress

• I have started working on the book by collecting content I have written related to it and putting it online at Born Trainer.