Broke: Humans learn by lectures.
Woke: Humans learn by imitation.
Lectures are an outdated way of transmitting knowledge, and future of education should reflect this.
Humans are mimetic.
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This is a cyclic meme of sorts. They’re both ancient pedagogical traditions with strengths and weaknesses. They’re also not mutually exclusive. The “lecture-demonstration” is a common form. Teachers are good at one, both, or neither. No real need to be partisan about it.
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True, but seems like the scale is heavily tilted towards the lecture side
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I’m skeptical. Even pure lectures demonstrate thinking patterns you can imitate, and pure demonstrations are often accompanied by lecture-like expository commentary. You’re espousing something of a higher-ed religion you may not be aware of.
Back when I was at Michigan, I took a 6-week seminar on college teaching run by Ed dept ideologues who ranted at us all through about “sage on the stage” like it was cancer and how cooperative student-centric teaching was best, adapted to learning styles, learning by doing etc.
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Left a bad taste in my mouth, plus a lot of their indoctrination has since been debunked. In general good teaching is just a teacher sincere about trying to connect and get through. Good learning is a student who wants to. The process is secondary.
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