A note on Teaching and Learning

• I want to reflect on something quickly.
• I saw something equivalent to this on the white board at the end of last semester
  • I grabbed this off of the most reliable of sources, Wikipedia
  • It is intuitive, unscientific and the numbers appear to be completely bogus. (see this blog post)
  • In short it is based on a series of they said that they said that ...
  • The original was intuitive and had no numbers
  • Numbers were added later without any formal research.
  • It appears to have become a "standard" of the educational field.
• It seems to make real sense when you look at it.
  • The more involved you are in a topic, the better you will learn it.
• I do tend to believe in the general principles however.
  • The more involved in a subject you are, the better you learn it.
• So how does that fit into a university class?
  • We have a vast amount of material to cover.
  • There is no way we can have you do the 70% and above activities for every item in class.
    • Can you "experience, model simulate", at the 70% level?
    • But how can you "Do the real thing", a 90% learning level.
• Take responsibility for active learning.
  • Read before and participate in class.
  • Ask questions
  • Do your homework, early, so that you can make this an interactive activity as well.