Learning by Doing

I joined a very interesting webinar recently, where the speaker is very passionate about his field which is the robotics. I am not too familiar with it but what interested me more was his view on teaching, where most teachers are not actually teaching students with their materials, but they are actually creating references for themselves. You can watch the recording here, to see what I am saying.

I see the same thing too when a person try to explain or write a document, in the sense he/she is trying to write down what he/she (or people around him/her) understands, which is most likely not comprehensible to other people. An example would be if you were to write down a recipe, that you know, so that you can remember or check the steps, would make no sense to another person who wants to cook the recipe. This is an expert/teacher problem. Ask your mother how to cook something, and she will describe some vague process with an even more vague amount of ingredient. “Add coconut milk until it seems enough (???), and stir until thickens (???),” my mother would say.

Anyways it is not always easy to implement this way of teaching, as the presenter said in the webinar, but I think realizing that the method of teaching needs to be changed, is already a good enough progress.

Thank you for reading.