Cooking chicken wings with a recipe.





Today we are making barbecue spicy garlic chicken with a recipe. They will be  compared to wings made two weeks ago without a recipe and measurements.  The ingredients necessary for today are 4-5 pounds chicken wings, broken down into wingettes and drumettes, 3 tablespoons light olive oil, 1 cup Old Bay Seasoning,  1 teaspoon of garlic powder, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 1/2 teaspoon barbecue sauce. The purpose of the exercise is to compare the taste, and flavor of the wings without using a recipe to those using the recipe.  
The technical part of this recipe  is the time and as well the ,measurements of the food. After seasoning the chicken you will preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and place the chicken in the oven for 20-30 minutes checking routinely. At the halfway point I will add the barbecue sauce and leave it to cook for about 15-20 minutes.  
 I stared cooking at 12:15 pm and ended at  1:25 pm.  Cooking with the  recipe took  more than an  hour.
After tasting the chicken  I preferred the chicken without the recipe because I had less restrictions in preparing and mixing and I feel the chicken prepared without the recipe tasted better. When cooking with a recipe it is easier for new learners because it gives them a guideline to follow.However, with cooking without a recipe a learner has the freedom to develop their own ideas and and inputs and only need to be provided guidance.  In other words, the teacher will act as a facilitator in this case to guide the learner in achieving his or her goal.  
















Comments

Professor Deckers said…
Thanks Hindolo. Again you have focused more on the process of cooking and less on the learning taking place. What is your plan for all this free time that we have? How will this new idea reframe your ongoing learning? How well do you think this idea will work in the world of nursing teaching? What other sources of learning have you explored besides a receipe (like on line TV shows, your tube videos, cooking group blogs, instagram groups, pintrest, etc). How to keep you motivated - cooking for your clinical group each week. A weekly dinner to learn more about what skills you do well and which ones you need to improve, etc.

Here are some examples of what I got from your post about learning. As a learner, particularly an adult learner I don't like prescriptive learning. How can I take assignments that have a specific end goal (like this one - learn about learning) and let students create their own path for that learning? (give choice about their topics, provide set check in times to see about progress/learning, provide facilitation along the way at these check in times). How do I provide needed scaffolding and support in that individualized learning activity to keep the learning going? (in this case I provide bi-monthly feedback and ongoing reflections to point you in the direction to keep learning going). What do I as an educator need to do if student's are off track? (perhaps we need to have a 1:1 zoom to discuss how to proceed with this project)?
March 24, 2020 at 12:30 PM
Hindolo said…
At the initial start of the assignment, my thought was a to work on a project and complete it at a go and move to the next assignment the next time learning from the previous. Looking at the feedback, it seems like learning as i go along. In my first recipe, I prepared a barbecue from start to finish instead of focusing on the steps that were involved, reflecting on what went well, WHAT I learned and how to improve on the learning. In my next couple of blogs experimenting in cooking with and without a recipe was to differentiate the different types of learning. There are two different types of learning in preparing both recipes. Cooking without the recipe provides some independence where I experimented with me coming up with the way i wanted to prepare the wings, taking my own time and initiative and evaluated the outcome by how it tasted. In this case I came up with my own solutions and learned at the end how the cooking tasted and improve on it over time with practice. Cooking with the recipe seems like been directed, ideas been provided and guided in completing the assignment. The teacher in this case facilitates the learning. I may need a zoom to discuss how to proceed with this project as you stated.
March 29, 2020 at 7:57 PM
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