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SqrachMasda
Pileated woodpecker
Joined: Aug 30, 2004
Posts: 188
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 Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: anybody learn in class or from the teacher? |
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everything i learn i learn on my own which i can do for free
that's okay, and sure that is home work but what is lecture for
i can learn and understand the material as great as any expert
the difficult part is trying to learn what exactly does the teacher want me to say , what do they want to hear
i go to class to see, oh, okay. so this is the piece of class they want to hear and then try to figure out, how they want to hear it
sometimes a teacher can increase my interest which i think is really good
but i look at other students and wonder if they are really learning something directly from class
i have got grades that were less than other people i know i did better than and i don't want to sound arrogant but literally i have gone to explain to the teacher what i did because they actually did not understand the material that well
this usually ends up making things worse for me as i realized teachers get extremely offended when you prove them wrong, even when i say i don't want my grade change i just want to explain this and that
lucky for both of us, i hate speaking to them or i'd do that more often
haha, i'm not trying to complain here
just not sure if i am lecture disabled  |
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CaptainMac
Snowy Owl
Joined: Mar 10, 2008
Posts: 153
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I too like to learn on my own.
Everything in four of my five classes is taken right from the book. I simply read the book, do my work at home, and get A's. In class, I usually surf the web and take notes only so that I have something to show if they ever question me.
I'm not an auditory learner anyways. And I get tired of homogenized PowerPoints. No visual stimulation, no stimulation period from them. Just boring Arial font and white backgrounds.
I only go to profs if I have questions or concerns. Usually I use other resources first so I don't tie up too much of their time but there are some times when I prefer it to come from the person who is being paid to drone on and on about stuff.
The class I am not doing well in has a lot of videos and stuff from lecture. I do focus in this class but the problem is that so much of it is social stuff in nature. I'm going to talk with my prof this week because I need to get out of there with at least a B-, preferably a B...I've got to get into grad school next year after all!
It's a good thing I'm on a full scholarship right now because otherwise I'd be paying $$$$ just to take tests/have people look at papers. |
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DuceXcreW
Sea Gull
Joined: Oct 10, 2007
Age: 20
Posts: 218
Location: New York
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I don't really know what the deal with learning is, I can only share my experience.
I sit in a room, and I don't really pay attention to the lecture. I usually read books off my phone (as of late anyway). I don't do assignments, like homework, readings, etc (unless they severely impact grades -- like a term paper, or lab writeup). Yet, though I can never remember anything a professor says, it feels like I learned at the end of each class. (I also take really minimal notes that I type when I get home)
So it really feels like that at the end of each class, I simply 'remembered' a bunch of material I never actually learned before.
*shrug*
I have no idea what other people get from it. Some people scribble pages and pages of notes, ask tons of questions, follow along with the text book, and fail each test. |
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