[WolfCoder]

Nykc, on 25 Nov, 2009 - 10:00 AM, said:

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[Nykc]

@wolfcoder - thanks, couldn't get to it from here.

[SixOfEleven]

Reading first and then trial and error. So I guess I would say that I'm visual. Just listening to something isn't really helpful. If I can't see it it is a little harder to grasp.

[Choscura]

Call me an ass all you want. I went from being able to learn nothing from anybody who couldn't hold my interest (highschool, first two years at college) to being able to learn from the monotone/powerpoint combination (currently). It is a question of discipline. Hell, if I can do it, anybody should be able to, and if you're not going to bother even trying, why bother even making the excuse?

[gawdlike]

Something that annoys the fuck out of me is when people don't pay attention then go whining that it's all the teachers fault. And yes, almost anybody should be able to learn from any "teaching style".

[gabehabe]

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[Bort]

That's just disturbing Gabe, although I'm sure Neo will appreciate it

[NeoTifa]

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[Gloin]

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[Sethro117]

Oh geez, my eyes.

[Choscura]

gawdlike, on 26 Nov, 2009 - 01:44 AM, said:

Something that annoys the fuck out of me is when people don't pay attention then go whining that it's all the teachers fault. And yes, almost anybody should be able to learn from any "teaching style".

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[artifex nex]

Choscura, on 25 Nov, 2009 - 07:46 PM, said:

Call me an ass all you want.

You're an ass.

Sorry couldn't help myself.

Back to the point.
I learn best from a mix of Visual and Kinesthetic. Note-taking comes in handy when they try to teach you in monotone.

[TriggaMike]

Honestly if you think you can learn from any teacher you have no experience truly crappy teachers. My operating systems teacher last semester:

1) Couldn't speak english properly (she was from South America and spoke Spanish as her first language. But my spanish friend couldn't understand her either....)

2) She taught us the wrong material. (It took her 2 weeks to explain the difference between hard and soft links in linux, and she still fucked it up)

3) She didn't understand the basics of a good lecture. Using the board she would start a long list of ordered steps or information halfway down, and then would run out of space, and would start randomly throwing things above/beside and on different white boards.

4) She constantly handed us out photo copies from the previous year's textbook and never made us use the text book that was listed as REQUIRED, had <200 pages, and cost $130CDN. She was simply too lazy to do her job and use the new textbook.

5) The photo copied readings were usually over 20 pages, double sided, and she expected us to have read them all for the next class. When you're taking 5 very involved courses you don't have that sort of time (especially if you've ever tried to just read a OS text book)

So yeah, guess what, I DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION. I also happened to get the highest mark on the midterm in the course (91%). Guess how I accomplished this?

I taught myself, and I went to another teacher's course (wasting my own fucking free time) and learned more in an hour than I had learned in her class in weeks.

IMO if you can teach yourself better than the teacher can, you might as well take leisure time while their distracting you and then teach yourself when you can focus.

[gawdlike]

Which has nothing to do with learning types (visual, kinesthetic and so on).

I didn't say that everyone could teach every subject.

This post has been edited by gawdlike: 27 November 2009 - 04:41 AM

[NeoTifa]

I learn best when my instructors speak English. I got an F in trig because my professor was teaching in Ukrainian.