Re: Lecture Isn't Effective: More Evidence #2

Some blog followers might be interested in a discussion-list post “Re: Lecture Isn't Effective: More Evidence #2” [Hake (2011)].

The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: In reply to my post “Re: Lecture Isn't Effective: More Evidence” at http://bit.ly/r80W5i , Ed Laughbaum of the MathEdCC list wrote at http://bit.ly/r8StCV : “My guess is that of the nearly 6 billion people on earth who have been (are being) educated, learned through lecture. . . . . Is lecture a common practice in China? In India? In Thailand? In Brazil? Canada, etc.? My guess is yes.”

To which Alain Schremmer replied “Yes, most people in the world learn from lectures but this is only because, in most of the world, there just are no textbooks: the teacher writes the book on the board and the students copy what's on the board in their notebook.”

A MUST-READ all-time classic in this regard is the hilarious “The Lecture System in Teaching Science” [Morrison (1986)] online at http://entropysite.oxy.edu/morrison.html.

Laughbaum went on to point out that the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of lectures is related to the neurobiology of human memory as discussed by Gerald Edelman http://bit.ly/n1LpW9, Terry McDermott http://bit.ly/qNPAQP, and Richard Restak http://bit.ly/pfWYNg .
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands
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Recognize the Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII)

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“Like the entomologist in search of brightly colored butterflies, my attention hunted, in the garden of gray matter, cells with delicate and elegant forms, the mysterious butterflies of the soul.”
- Santiago Ramon y Cajal http://bit.ly/pTBxSA, quoted on p. 12 of
Edelman (2006)


REFERENCES [URL’s shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 16 July 2011.]
Edelman, G.M. 2006. Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge. Yale University Press. Publisher's information at http://bit.ly/n1LpW9. Amazon.com information a http://amzn.to/q5WOvl

Hake, R.R. 2011. “Re: Lecture Isn't Effective: More Evidence #2,” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/mXiXoh. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to various discussion lists.