[CW] Re: [KochMorse] Diminishing returns when learning morse

[W3GERry]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "g0slz_nottm" <alan_matthews at ntlworld.com>
To: <KochMorse at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:36 AM
Subject: [KochMorse] Diminishing returns when learning morse
>
> I was bored during a lunchtime and I wrote a spreadsheet to
analyse
> something that struck me when using most morse tutors
> ............
>Someone experienced in CW said that it took, on average,
10,000
>repetitions of each character to learn them solidly,

Hi Alan

I find your analysis very interesting and I think you've made
some excellent points!

You've put me in mind of some musings I've been entertaining
lately that I'd now like to share:

I'm not a psychologist or educator, but it seems to me that a
program that worked as follows could be very effective for
reinforcement, as while driving or relaxing, or perhaps even
for sleep-teaching:

1.  It selects a character at random

2.  For a period on the order of 30 seconds to two minutes you
hear the character repetitively, at various speeds and pitches
and with varying intervals between repetitions.  You also hear
human voices saying the name of the character-- mixed male and
female voices, mixed pitches, mixed timbres, mixed accents,
varying intervals.  In general you hear the voices far less
frequently than you're hearing the character.

3.  You get 10-15 seconds of silence.

4.  Back to step 1.

Comments welcome!!

73 de W3GERry
W3GER at ARRL.NET