Assessment: Teacher-centered or Learner-centered?

I've taken the test & I understand what's being said. I fall mostly under the student-centered approach (as I'm assuming most did). The prompts seemed loaded to favor that category. My gut tells me a mixture must be reality. I teach mainly high school seniors whose ambition is not to continue education in a typical 4-year setting. Right, wrong or indifferent, motivation levels are inherently lower in the courses I teach (or maybe it's really me & I need to get out of teaching...but I don't think so). An entirely learner-centered approach works well when you have students who are willing to put in the effort to learn; if, however, you are begging kids to do ANYTHING, learner-centered approaches yield frustration.
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Week #1 Reflections

One quote in particular from the Lee & Allen reading stuck out to me:

"Another important aspect of edublogs is the asking of questions by peers, self, and the teacher. The research associated with cognitive information processing has thoroughly demonstrated that asking and answering questions about information to be learned can greatly improve comprehension." (Lee & Allen, 391)

I guess I'm a 3-year-old at heart, but I find myself questioning things, probably to a fault. Blogs with reflective and thoughtful followers can certainly teach peers, self & teachers much. I'd venture to say we'll have a vast amount of information collectively in our blogs by the semester's end. But I'm also willing to bet I'll fall into Vang & Fang's study that read, "And yet, only two fifths (40.0%) of the respondents indicated that they found no time to read everyone’s posting." (7) Not enough hours in the day...

Class Introduction by Rick

Rick, Damian & I did a triangular intro. Below you'll find Rick's picks of info on me:

Hello everyone. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce Matt from La Crosse. He is currently teaching high school English from a windowless classroom, running the drama department and helping out with directing his first Madrigal Dinner (I had to look that up). Over the last 10 years his resume also includes running both journalism and yearbook classes.
Matt moved from Colorado Springs with his wife and 2 kids Wyatt who is 5 and Ayda - 2. There in the Rockies he hiked, biked, and bow hunted.
He is building a 12x10 log cabin playhouse for his kids in the backyard and anxiously waiting to graduate in December so he can start training for a marathon which is an item on his bucket list.
Matt believes he is “blessed with more than he deserves and is continually reminded of ways we live on an incredible planet”. He seems to be obsessed with the TV show “The Office” and secretly longs to spend more time outside.
He is looking forward to changing some of his teaching-style to e-learning.
Welcome Matt. It’s been a pleasure. Rick from Buffalo WY