Notes to self: If passive learning is when you just sit back and receive information, whether or not you remember it or use it, then what is it that you do when actively learning? What is it that you do beyond just receiving information? The video shows the example of the game and how people deduce how to solve the problem. But I think the essence of active learning is more than just problem solving, it's the application of the information that you receive, thus granting it utility and value, resulting in retention into memory along with how to use that information to solve this particular set of problems. Information thus becomes answers to problems, the answers becoming the agents through which the pain of not knowing how to get what you want caused by the obstacle (problem) is resolved. And what exactly is it that you do to apply the information? Trial and error. Experimentation. What happens when you experiment? You get feedback, results, and most probably failure. Learning is primarily triggered by pain observed in the Hippocampus. And what’s painful? Failure. And what does the pain do? It motivates you to resolve it, motivating you to continue trial and error, to perceive, act, get feedback, perceive said feedback, hange how you act and do another round of trial and error, then observe the feedback again (this is the perception action cycle mentioned at 1:45 ). You do this until either you succeed, thus learn and resolve the problem, or until the pain and fear of failure is great enough to pull you away from trying again (which means to give up), the pain and fear caused by learned helplessness, faithlessness, a fatalistic view, or any number of logic or reasoning serving to stop you from experiencing the pain of failure again. Call it being determined, having moxie and resolve, or being resilient, however you wish to put it, trying again means to voluntarily accept the pain of failure and also the risk of experiencing said pain. Therefore, if the origin of the word ‘passion’ is derived from the Latin word ‘patior’ -- which means to suffer and endure -- then one cannot say they are passionate without first being aware of the burden of pain and suffering (in their many forms) they shoulder by undertaking an endeavour, then to willingly accept that burden. Only then can that be truly called passion, not some fleeting and feeble interest that crumbles the moment one meets with any difficulty.
I'm supposed to study math but I'm here watching a video from 8 years ago about a professor playing a penguin game while explaining how passive learning sucks
So, if active learning is so effective, how come we have so many more great academics of an older generation today who were taught by passive learning, didactic, methods, than younger ones who were taught using these newer methods?
Much learning is passive (did you even learn from reading a book?). Ironically, this video employs passive learning. Did you learn anything from it? Moreover, actual instruction in actual schools is never totally passive. Teachers have been having students do things for decades. (At least since Sputnik.) The speaker seem unaware of the fact that even and an "active" instructional strategy does not require technology. Babies learn without going to school, so according to this speaker, nobody needs to go to school. Just tinker on your iPad and a you will learn a huge amount (probably not French or Calculus, however).
Notes to self:
If passive learning is when you just sit back and receive information, whether or not you remember it or use it, then what is it that you do when actively learning? What is it that you do beyond just receiving information? The video shows the example of the game and how people deduce how to solve the problem. But I think the essence of active learning is more than just problem solving, it's the application of the information that you receive, thus granting it utility and value, resulting in retention into memory along with how to use that information to solve this particular set of problems.
Information thus becomes answers to problems, the answers becoming the agents through which the pain of not knowing how to get what you want caused by the obstacle (problem) is resolved. And what exactly is it that you do to apply the information? Trial and error. Experimentation. What happens when you experiment? You get feedback, results, and most probably failure. Learning is primarily triggered by pain observed in the Hippocampus. And what’s painful? Failure. And what does the pain do? It motivates you to resolve it, motivating you to continue trial and error, to perceive, act, get feedback, perceive said feedback, hange how you act and do another round of trial and error, then observe the feedback again (this is the perception action cycle mentioned at 1:45 ).
You do this until either you succeed, thus learn and resolve the problem, or until the pain and fear of failure is great enough to pull you away from trying again (which means to give up), the pain and fear caused by learned helplessness, faithlessness, a fatalistic view, or any number of logic or reasoning serving to stop you from experiencing the pain of failure again. Call it being determined, having moxie and resolve, or being resilient, however you wish to put it, trying again means to voluntarily accept the pain of failure and also the risk of experiencing said pain. Therefore, if the origin of the word ‘passion’ is derived from the Latin word ‘patior’ -- which means to suffer and endure -- then one cannot say they are passionate without first being aware of the burden of pain and suffering (in their many forms) they shoulder by undertaking an endeavour, then to willingly accept that burden. Only then can that be truly called passion, not some fleeting and feeble interest that crumbles the moment one meets with any difficulty.
I'm supposed to study math but I'm here watching a video from 8 years ago about a professor playing a penguin game while explaining how passive learning sucks
So, if active learning is so effective, how come we have so many more great academics of an older generation today who were taught by passive learning, didactic, methods, than younger ones who were taught using these newer methods?
Much learning is passive (did you even learn from reading a book?). Ironically, this video employs passive learning. Did you learn anything from it? Moreover, actual instruction in actual schools is never totally passive. Teachers have been having students do things for decades. (At least since Sputnik.) The speaker seem unaware of the fact that even and an "active" instructional strategy does not require technology. Babies learn without going to school, so according to this speaker, nobody needs to go to school. Just tinker on your iPad and a you will learn a huge amount (probably not French or Calculus, however).
robotczar
I learned calculus in my computer, so i guess you can learn anything