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Perhaps the real problem is forcing students to sit through lectures they don't care about in order to get information that is easily available in books or vide
by kirsebaer 9y ago
Perhaps the real problem is forcing students to sit through lectures they don't care about in order to get information that is easily available in books or videos.
- jimhefferon 9y agoThat information is available to them now. I don't find that they get it. I am learning a musical instrument. My practice is much more reliable when I have weekly lessons. People are funny. Not haha funny. Complicated funny.
- ben_jones 9y agoI wholeheartedly agree. But the (at least American) education system is build around obtaining checkmarks on a degree audit so you can get the credentials to get a job. I think its a deep issue and you have to start with simpler problems near the top rather then heading straight to 'break the wheel'.
- hackinthebochs 9y agoBut what's the alternative? I see this sentiment repeated all the time and no one offers any workable alternatives.
- Eridrus 9y agoThe alternative should be to make more classes elective and provide less rigorous versions. There's really no point teaching most kids anything beyond the basics of most subjects. Spend more of our resources on motivating subjects & topics, rather than just telling kids to learn things. If the kids aren't interested in learning what you're teaching, it doesn't matter what you're teaching anyway, you're just creating stress on everyone for no reason. Maybe I'm extrapolating too much from my own experiences, but I lost nothing when I dropped physics because my teacher was an asshat, nor from sticking with chemistry because my teacher was a non-asshat.
- Buldak 9y agoMost people are not cut out to learn like Good Will Hunting.
- sannee 9y agoI don't think you need to be exactly a genius in order to watch videos on the internet. It requires even less effort than attending a lecture, and has many benefits (cheaper, you can literally replicate the best lecturer in the universe for everyone, you can rewatch inifinite amount of times...).
- jbergens 9y agoVideos are generally much more boring to watch than a live teacher. I definatley don't expect students to watch the same 1 hour video twice.