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On the class topic, I suspect that attendance was more impactful for students pre-internet as the alternative was to wade through the library piecing together m
by lumost 1y ago
On the class topic, I suspect that attendance was more impactful for students pre-internet as the alternative was to wade through the library piecing together material.
With lecture notes/slides available online, well prepared books and study forums readily available - in-person attendance can feel archaic.
We may be experiencing a similar dynamic in education with AI. In a world where we can create individualized curriculum’s for each student encompassing the entire tree of knowledge - Perhaps it’s time to rethink how we educate students rather than push them into lecture halls designed for the Middle Ages.
- sdenton4 1y agoHere's an alternative hypothesis... People thrive under regularity, and young people (especially) tend not to understand that. Similarly, being able to focus on a single thing is a kind of super-power, while multi-tasking generally hurts performance on tasks. Going to class (and paying attention) means that you've got a regular period of focus on the class topic. That combination of regularity and focus translates into long-term learning and better performance.