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Makes sense to me. My brain barely starts to take in the info before the next slide pops up.

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I’m not sure if it isn’t the other way around. I can only talk from my experience, but when I take photos of lectures, it is because I think that I will need it or that the content is important. But that only happens, when I really pay attention. That’s why I personally feel like it’s more of an I can remember those parts better because I was paying attention and the other parts less because I was slacking off before the taking photos part.

Learning by rote isn’t truly learning

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Why isn't the teacher just giving them the document for the slides, before the class, tell them to read it then have a quiz to see what people were too lazy to retain?

I took a class where all the 'teacher' did was read the slides to us for 90 minutes like we were braindead and couldn't read them ourselves. On top of that the slides were plagarized from a class he was taking at another school.

Then the slides were set up in such a stupid fashion that if you printed them they were unreadable because the colored text on colored backgrounds became a homongous grayscale blob.

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The best classes Ive ever had, the professor made the notes available ahead of time, but the equations were missing, and you had to fill them out in class. The professor offered a question session where most of the class asked questions regarding how to setup solving the homework problems. I used to work all week on the homework, come into the question session, find out how I did it wrong, then correct it and got A+s on all the homework.

It's called a flip classroom. It works really well for students who are willing to work at home etc.

It depends what you are learning. That’s basically the only way to teach anatomy

Definitely, and knowledge accumulation is important to be a specialist in a field, but this approach doesn’t offer the full experience.

It’s like giving a man fish rather than teaching him how to fish for himself - it’s something that is lacking in education generally.

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