My students were like that, and luckily because I knew that prepping for stuff a few days before and working on my thesis and working at my part-time job were not all going to work together, I had put together my secondary reading lists well before teaching started (the primary stuff was all the responsibility of the convenor) but I found myself doing the "reminder-reading" the night before whereas they had all read it a couple of (or more) weeks before.
Part of my applauded their foresight, but it wasn't until I set mandatory written responses to one of the discussion questions (only ~500 words or so) that they started to be able to recall the reading that they had done so many weeks prior. I mean, it's fine at the beginning of the semester, but by week five no-one remembered what they'd read in week one, and it meant discussion was a struggle.
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Date: 2013-11-05 02:51 pm (UTC)Part of my applauded their foresight, but it wasn't until I set mandatory written responses to one of the discussion questions (only ~500 words or so) that they started to be able to recall the reading that they had done so many weeks prior. I mean, it's fine at the beginning of the semester, but by week five no-one remembered what they'd read in week one, and it meant discussion was a struggle.