Walter Bright wrote:
Sean Kelly wrote:
For lectures I basically have a choice between two options:
1. Take notes and not remember a darn thing that was said.
2. Not take any notes and remember the lecture.
Eh, I found that the physical act of taking notes tended to fix it in my
brain.
On 2009-05-04 14:47:10 -0400, Sean Kelly s...@invisibleduck.org said:
For lectures I basically have a choice between two options:
1. Take notes and not remember a darn thing that was said.
2. Not take any notes and remember the lecture.
I've seen a few raised eyebrows at times, but this is
The subjects I did the best in and learned the most at uni were the ones
where I didn't *have* to take notes and could concentrate on what the
lecturer was trying to teach us.
Force students to take notes and the only thing they'll learn is how to
write fast.
-- Daniel
Daniel Keep wrote:
The subjects I did the best in and learned the most at uni were the ones
where I didn't *have* to take notes and could concentrate on what the
lecturer was trying to teach us.
Force students to take notes and the only thing they'll learn is how to
write fast.
The first
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Keep
daniel.keep.li...@gmail.com wrote:
The subjects I did the best in and learned the most at uni were the ones
where I didn't *have* to take notes and could concentrate on what the
lecturer was trying to teach us.
Indeed, if writing down notes is
== Quote from Daniel de Kok (m...@danieldk.org)'s article
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Keep
daniel.keep.li...@gmail.com wrote:
The subjects I did the best in and learned the most at uni were the ones
where I didn't *have* to take notes and could concentrate on what the
lecturer
Sean Kelly wrote:
Some professors seem to think that lecturing about material that isn't
presented anywhere else will force students to attend class. But in my
experience it also creates a class that takes notes furiously rather than
engaging the material and asking questions. Overall, I think
Reply to Sean,
Some professors seem to think that lecturing about material that isn't
presented anywhere else will force students to attend class. But in
my experience it also creates a class that takes notes furiously
rather than engaging the material and asking questions. Overall, I
think
BCS:
At the other end, if the professor *only* lectures on what's in the book,
what are they being paid for? Just talking? Better would be for the professor
to lecture on application, the what/why (and not the how), how ideas are
related, anecdotes and the like.
Books are meant to be read
== Quote from BCS (a...@pathlink.com)'s article
Reply to Sean,
Some professors seem to think that lecturing about material that isn't
presented anywhere else will force students to attend class. But in
my experience it also creates a class that takes notes furiously
rather than engaging
Simen Kjaeraas wrote:
On Mon, 04 May 2009 20:47:10 +0200, Sean Kelly s...@invisibleduck.org
wrote:
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s
article
I don't agree. I think there is much more at work here. Slides are
limited in size and text content simply because
Sean Kelly wrote:
== Quote from BCS (a...@pathlink.com)'s article
Reply to Walter,
Sean Kelly wrote:
Some professors seem to think that lecturing about material that
isn't presented anywhere else will force students to attend class.
But in my experience it also creates a class that takes
flGeorg Wrede wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
Everyone I talked to who was there didn't like it.
I think there's the *subconscious* notion of not respecting the
audience by bothering to do a Proper Presentation. And they let it seep
through, instead of pausing to think about the upsides. (The
I generally agree with Andrei (and he knows what he's doing, his talks
are both entertaining and informative, several cuts above the usual ones
I have to sit through).
I find after giving a presentation using a non-traditional format, that
the non-traditional format becomes the topic of
Andrei Alexandrescu:
Slides are
limited in size and text content simply because there is so much
information a person can absorb simultaneously by hearing and seeing.
Of course mammal brains have limits, but such limits are always higher than the
amount of information shown in normal
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article
The slide is not meant to convey complex information with completeness.
There is, for example, no hope in putting complex proofs or formulae on
the slide.
Wow. I really wish the rest of the Ph.D students in this world
Walter Bright wrote:
...
o pdf renders a lot better than html. Why that should be, I don't know,
but it is obviously better.
I could be the old Mac feature. From what I recall, Apple is
fanatical about the on-screen display of something matching, as closely
as possible, the on-page
Sean Kelly Wrote:
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article
I don't agree. I think there is much more at work here. Slides are
limited in size and text content simply because there is so much
information a person can absorb simultaneously by hearing and
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