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On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:24:11 -0800 MICHAEL HORTON
<<mailto:scitch@verizon.net>scitch@verizon.net> writes:
> If all you want them to do is remember the concept for
> a day or two then lecture is fine. If you want to remember it longer then
> there must be some connection in their mind between that concept and
something
> memorable. That memorable thing could be a mnemonic, a lab, an
> activity, a video, prior knowledge, whatever. The point of my project
is to see > if things that are learned via discovery last longer than things
> learned traditionally.
>
Throughout our lives, we have been lectured that that lectures
do not enhance learning. If this is true, then
why are lectures still used as the primary teaching tool
in almost all high schools, colleges, and universities
throughout the entire world?
Why do so many educators abandon "discovery learning" within a year or
two after it has been introduced?