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Joanvinallcox bookmarked on 2009-06-10 downes learning lectures

I agree that a lecture gives the speaker more learning than the audience, but it can help them too, in the manner Downes indicates.

  • a lecture is inevitably a learning experience. As for my audience, well, I have often maintained that they learn very little from the content of the lecture, and much more from my mannerisms and approach. A lecture (like a demonstration) isn't a learning event (except for the speaker), it's an enabling event, a celebration of what we already know and believe. Lectures challenge, invigorate, enliven, enable and enlighten, but they do not teach (much). Experience teaches.

This link has been bookmarked by 3 people . It was first bookmarked on 09 Jun 2009, by Gary Brown.

  • 10 Jun 09
    kylemurley
    Kyle Murley

    You Only Get This Type of Education in Class - Mythic Attributes of the Lecture Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.downes.ca%2Fcgi-bin%2Fpage.cgi%3Fpost%3D49214

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    • Giving a talk forces me to reconceptualize my thoughts
    • I do some of my best thinking though speaking
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  • joanvinallcox
    Joan Vinall-Cox

    I agree that a lecture gives the speaker more learning than the audience, but it can help them too, in the manner Downes indicates.

    downes learning lectures

    • a lecture is inevitably a learning experience. As for my audience, well, I have often maintained that they learn very little from the content of the lecture, and much more from my mannerisms and approach. A lecture (like a demonstration) isn't a learning event (except for the speaker), it's an enabling event, a celebration of what we already know and believe. Lectures challenge, invigorate, enliven, enable and enlighten, but they do not teach (much). Experience teaches.
  • 09 Jun 09
    grbrown
    Gary Brown

    You Only Get This Type of Education in Class - Mythic Attributes of the Lecture

    Good discussion of the use of the lecture in online learning, both on whether it is advisable, and on how to approach the idea. Given that the lecture has such a bad reputation, why do I produce so many of them? What I have found is that I do some of my best thinking though speaking. Giving a talk forces me to reconceptualize my thoughts. So for me, a lecture is inevitably a learning experience. As for my audience, well, I have often maintained that they learn very little from the content of the lecture, and much more from my mannerisms and approach. A lecture (like a demonstration) isn't a learning event (except for the speaker), it's an enabling event, a celebration of what we already know and believe. Lectures challenge, invigorate, enliven, enable and enlighten, but they do not teach (much). Experience teaches. David Jones, The Weblog of (a) David Jones, June 9, 2009. [Link] [Tags: Online Learning, Experience] [Previous][Next]

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