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Instructional Barriers – Materials – How Our Brains Interact with Media
However, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater just yet. Well-placed lecture can be just as nourishing as well-placed visuals or well-placed digital media.
For example, one college student was describing a class where the instructor opted to do little lecture and focused instead on a lot of group activities. While the students appreciated getting to demonstrate their own knowledge, they also really wondered what the instructor was thinking and how she would tackle the problems. She is the expert with over 20 years experience, after all. Finally, one day, she did give them a 30-minute lecture on the content. This one brief lecture efficiently pulled together the concepts and created a framework, or schema, for the students that they had been struggling with. The student explained that she then felt far more confident in her work and felt like the lecture had elucidated some things she was struggling with.
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