This reminds me of my old chemistry teacher, we used to enjoy watching his demonstrations because half the time they didn't work. Excuses would be made about a bit dirt must have been in the test tube or out of date chemicals etc.
But it made the lesson interesting (we wanted to see it fail), watching a well made video is less engaging than seeing a live demonstration.
Am I the only one thinking that having a good presentation alone is not enough to learn automatically? You need to practice what you learn to make it sink in.
In other words: it depends on the individual student to practice. Just looking at the teaching method and ignoring that factor is not enough imho.
EDIT to clarify: Criticizing something but ignoring a potentially big factor is not enough.
Interesting, but it doesn't seem to control for the possibility that study materials presented in a subtly different way are recalled better. (I'd imagine Arial is used a lot in schools...)
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 26.4 ms ] threadBut it made the lesson interesting (we wanted to see it fail), watching a well made video is less engaging than seeing a live demonstration.
In other words: it depends on the individual student to practice. Just looking at the teaching method and ignoring that factor is not enough imho.
EDIT to clarify: Criticizing something but ignoring a potentially big factor is not enough.
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