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The lecture style appears to come from a time before the printing press when access to information was poor, enabling students to be essentially human photocopi
by randomdata 3y ago
The lecture style appears to come from a time before the printing press when access to information was poor, enabling students to be essentially human photocopiers to copy the material to bring back to the home for the rest of the family to learn from.
Seems we still do it because we have a love of tradition.
- Nullabillity 3y agoYMMV, which is kind of the entire point here. Personally I found lectures to be a great way to learn, given the right teacher. A big key for me was to stop taking notes so that I could actually focus on what was being said instead. Another was, for lack of a better word… humanity. Video lectures just don't capture me the same way at all.
- 7thaccount 3y agoThis wouldn't work well in my engineering classes unfortunately. Sure you might follow along better, but then you'd have no example problems to study and would be screwed when it came time to study for the test.
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoI always had to take notes, still do, if I want to be able to focus on the speaker. Something about how I process speech. I'm very skeptical about the "there are no learning styles" results.
- randomdata 3y agoThe idea is that it is unlikely that individuals can be neatly categorized into one specific learning style among of set of learning styles. What allows one to learn best is highly contextual and ever changing.