Loons at NYT say the college lecture format is a conspiracy against women and non-whites!!!!

[ShootSpeeders]

They say we need more "active learning". HAHAHA. Fact is women and non-whites just don't have the brains of white males and that's why they need special treatment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/opinion/sunday/are-college-lectures-unfair.html?_r=0

sep 12 2015 DOES the college lecture discriminate? Is it biased against undergraduates who are not white, male and affluent?

The notion may seem absurd on its face. The lecture is an old and well-established tradition in education. To most of us, it simply is the way college courses are taught. Even online courses are largely conventional lectures uploaded to the web.

Yet a growing body of evidence suggests that the lecture is not generic or neutral, but a specific cultural form that favors some people while discriminating against others, including women, minorities and low-income and first-generation college students. This is not a matter of instructor bias; it is the lecture format itself — when used on its own without other instructional supports — that offers unfair advantages to an already privileged population.

The partiality of the lecture format has been made visible by studies that compare it with a different style of instruction, called active learning. This approach provides increased structure, feedback and interaction, prompting students to become participants in constructing their own knowledge rather than passive recipients.

Research comparing the two methods has consistently found that students over all perform better in active-learning courses than in traditional lecture courses. However, women, minorities, and low-income and first-generation students benefit more, on average, than white males from more affluent, educated families.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Let's do away with lectures then. In fact let's get rid of teachers. Self-study is the way you learn. Give the kid a book and tell him when the test will be. Only morons need teachers. Everything i learned came thru self study.

 

[bucs90]

So white males learn better from lectures? If we are all genetically the same regardless of race and gender...how can this be?

 

[ShootSpeeders]

I suspect the author was paid a bundle by the teacher's union. Fewer lectures and more hands-on teaching means more jobs for teachers.