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How We Dummies Succeed: Education vs. Learning Systems

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Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-07 20:19|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 TW go on an average US campus. Keep going until you get to Sciences part. Count how many of the faculty below 60 is what you call "Natural Born Americans".

Posted by gromgoru 2006-09-07 21:19|| 2006-09-07 21:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Thank you,TW. An informative and interesting article.

I have several "... For Dummies" computer books myself: they give a good first-level look at a subject, and the typeface is easy on the eyes. The Grad-level training I got helps me take the basics they present and elaborate on my own.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2006-09-07 21:39|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2006-09-07 21:39|| Front Page Top

#3 A reformation of the educational system will be based on changing the educational environment to maximize education. The literally medieval system in use today has to change with the recognition that student time is critically short.

Optimally, and not beyond our current technology, students should be taught by individualized multimedia, not in classes. The very best instruction blocks can be recorded, then as the student watches them, he interacts with them, is reviewed and evaluated at his individual speed.

For example, on his primary screen, he gets a lesson on types of weather. On a side screen, the same lesson, but in another language that he learns concurrently with English. Every unusual or key word is shown on the screen, and he types it himself to help insure retention. The computer also reviews what it has just taught and tests him on what he just learned.

The lesson goes at his speed, reviews as he needs it, and can even digress if he clicks on a topic that interests him.

When his lesson is done, you *know* that he understands the material, and has absorbed much, much more useful information that would be possible by students in a classroom.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-09-07 23:04|| 2006-09-07 23:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Granted, my exposure to such things as Anonymoose proposes was at a more primitive level during my prime schooling years (how's that for a euphamism!), but I prefer learning from people. I easily master machine-presented information, but don't retain much once I've passed the unit exit exam. Different people learn differently, and one of the reasons modern primary and secondary school systems are so expensive is because the better ones at least work toward providing teaching for the variety of learning styles.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-07 23:21|| 2006-09-07 23:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Ptah, I have most of the computer dummies books and I use them for reference all the time.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-09-07 23:28|| 2006-09-07 23:28|| Front Page Top

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