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Re: Teaching IDL Courses [message #77351 is a reply to message #77289]

Sun, 21 August 2011 12:49

Craig Markwardt
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On Aug 18, 11:25 am, David Fanning <n...@idlcoyote.com> wrote:
> The strange thing is, I think people learned more
> when the course content was a mess than they learn
> today. Sometimes I'll lecture for three days and then
> ask a class to write a short program without my help.
> Fewer and fewer people, it seems to me, are up to the
> challenge.

I used to attend seminars and take notes. The purpose of notes was
mostly to keep me awake and mentally engaged -- I never go back and
referred to the notes again.

Once I was taking notes at a talk and the speaker noticed this. He
made a point of announcing it to the rest of the audience, and made a
big production of handing me a preprint of his recent paper so that I
wouldn't have to take notes anymore. Sorry dude, that's not why I'm
taking notes. [ That, and coffee doesn't help me stay awake. ]

I think seeing something develop slowly - organically - on a black/
white board can help a listener learn and remember something. The
content is revealed at human speed. As opposed to projected slides -
where "everything" is already there on the screen and the audience
just views it passively.

Craig

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		Teaching IDL Courses By: David Fanning on Thu, 18 August 2011 08:25
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		Re: Teaching IDL Courses By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 22 August 2011 10:02
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