Re: Attention Experienced Professionals

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:11:56 -0700
Message-ID: <1097802802.813161@yasure>

Lemming wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:54:21 -0400, "Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>

>>I used collaboration to the hilt,  especially in lab work.  If one student
>>already "got it"  and explained it to another student who didn't "get it",
>>as far as I was concerned,  real education was going on.  Of course, I
>>wasn't responsible for certifying these people.  The only certificate
>>Digital gave them was a certificate of attendance.

>
>
> I concur. And perhaps surprisingly to those who have never worked as
> a trainer, the person who gains the most from such collaboration is
> often the person who you describe as the one who has already "got it".
> One of the best ways to learn, or to consolidate learning, is to
> explain it to someone else.
>
> Lemming

I've learned 10X more about SQL and Oracle since I started teaching than I knew when I started. Some of it the result of being abused by Howard but please don't tell him I said so. ;-)

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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