As far as I can tell, the inherent purpose of graduate school is to do one thing and one thing only: make you feel guilty about all the things you did wrong.Today I watched this really great video on youtube about How People Learn. My professor made this an assignment.
The big takeway I got from this video is people learn by:
1. Making analogies
2. Comparing things to other things
As a teacher, I rarely did this. I followed the time honored yet statistically inefficient teaching model of "Today we're going to learn about light. Light is bright, and it comes from the sun." In other words, I told kids what we were going to learn, I defined the topic, and I gave an example of the topic.
Ineffective.
Instead, I should have held up a picture of a light bulb, and a picture of a dark room, compared the two pictures, and made an analogy from something to kids already knew. Research suggests that the latter teaching method will give the results I want.
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