2) Younger people (or maybe it is most people) do not ask enough
questions. I remember one case where the instructor said something on a
Monday that seemingly contradicted something he had said the previous
Wednesday. When I queried this, that triggered a five-minute flurry of
him looking through his notes. Finally, he asked if he had covered four
slides (showed them) on Friday. No, he had not, and when he did, the
problem was solved.
As far as I could see,no one else had twigged to the problem.
Really, it often felt as if I was taking a different course from my
classmates.
I think kids who have never had to work for a living have a completely
different attitude toward formal education. They sit there and consume it
passively as they would a TV show. They don't know what it means to apply
any knowledge in a work situation, so it doesn't occur to them to actually
follow what is being presented in real time and think about how it will be
used, step by step.
It's not even a question of motivation or laziness. They simply don't have
the necessary prerequisite experience to look at learning in that way.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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