On October 4, 2012, Amil Malik argued that lecturing makes
learning difficult for students in his article how lectures prevent you from learning from The Daily Texan. Malik does a great job of relating to his
audience of fellow college students. He is credible to write on this issue because like many of us, he sits through lectures everyday. He states that not all students learn using
the same learning styles and that “variety is the key to understanding.” I agree with this idea and believe, as Malik does, that
professors should alter the way they teach so that all learning styles are
covered to benefit all students.
Malik uses a recent study from the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology to support his idea. The study showed that by using different forms of learning, the students studied scored 37 percent better than their counterparts. Malik also receives alternate teaching styles from University of Texas English professor Elizabeth Richmond-Garza who uses multiple media outlets to enhance her students’ understanding (a class of up to 400), as well as Special Education Adjunct Professor James Patton who offers three different test methods and video summaries of the day’s main points (a class of about 100).
Malik uses a recent study from the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology to support his idea. The study showed that by using different forms of learning, the students studied scored 37 percent better than their counterparts. Malik also receives alternate teaching styles from University of Texas English professor Elizabeth Richmond-Garza who uses multiple media outlets to enhance her students’ understanding (a class of up to 400), as well as Special Education Adjunct Professor James Patton who offers three different test methods and video summaries of the day’s main points (a class of about 100).
Malik
does well in providing a defense from Patton to those that do not support the
alternative methods used over conventional lecturing. Those who oppose feel
professors who use such methods are setting the students up for failure, but
Patton disagrees and says he is helping the students master the material with
their intended individual learning styles.
Many people have a different way of learn techniques. Some are visual learners and even vocal learners. On October 7, 2012, my colleague, Kayla Kretzer, talks about an article named “Howlectures prevent you from learning” from The Daily Texan, that a man named Amil Malik, argued that lecturing makes learning difficult for students. Kretzer states that Malik does a great job of relating to his audience of fellow college students. He is credible to write on this issue because like many of us, he sits through lectures everyday. Malik says, “variety is the key to understanding.” I agree with both Kretzer and Malik that in order for a student to learn they have to be exposed to many learning technique’s not just lectures. For example, PowerPoint’s or even videos that presents a visual learning ability that can be easier for people to learn. Malik suggest “we should routinely change our perspective and approach the idea in a different manner.”
ReplyDeleteI was pleased to know that Malik used a study from the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology to help support his idea. Kretzer stated that the study showed that by using different forms of learning, the students studied scored 37 percent better than their counterparts. Malik also receives alternate teaching styles from University of Texas English professor Elizabeth Richmond-Garza. I feel like this article was helpful because it can really make people open their eyes to teach in a different matter. If teachers and professors use a learning method that isn’t helping their student, they should use a different way of teaching their students. Once students find their way to learning then their grades will improve.