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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Times have changed. Smartphones have decimated people’s attention span. Way too many distractions now. Lectures never worked especially well and are even less effective now. 
Studies have shown that listeners only retain about 5-10% information from lectures. It is a very inefficient way to deliver information. [/quote]

Thats why you take notes. Almost all of med school was lectures. Med CME conferences are lectures. Part of undergrad was lectures, part seminar: still took notes . College wellness events have lectures for parents of freshman, and half the audience of parents were taking notes. Take notes if you want to retain more! My kids both took notes, unprompted, on college info sessions they were the most interested in. [/quote]

Stop talking about med school which is a unique environment. There is a lot of memorisation involved in med school. And med students tend to be obsessive grade grubbers - they pretty much have to be just to get into med school [/quote]

so your argument is that education should be keyed to the laziest learners? ok. [/quote]
People have this really stupid belief that memorization is bad when it is actually key to you learning anything.
If you can't remember vast amount of details, you are going to be a bad worker, no matter the major.[/quote]

Have you taken physics? No memorization involved. Very different from biology. That is why premed students are often scared of physics. Because it involves a different way of learning and understanding than what many of them are used to. You don’t have to memorise equations. You can just derive them if you need them [/quote]

Again, lectures are not about rote memorizing (although that has it’s place). They are about conveying information verbally - aka direct instruction. This is especially important in math and physics. [/quote]

Terrible take.  Lectures are the worst way to teach physics, which should be taught through modeling.  Even Harvard switched to a form of active learning in their physics classes after determining that students don't learn anything in lectures.  Just google it.   [/quote]

Not sure what you mean by “lectures” here. Direct instruction (ie teacher verbally explaining concepts) is key to teaching. It’s not the only component but it’s key.[/quote]

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