[TheForge] CAD Software

[Peter Hirst]

Hear, hear!  Nothing makes me crazier (or leave a course quicker)  than the 
egoistic teacher who begins a topic by asking questions on material yet to 
be covered and then "teaching"  by explaining why the answers are wrong.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] CAD Software


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> Grover.Richardson at gtri.gatech.edu wrote:
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>> Last lesson for the day, practice makes permanent.  If you learn how to
>> do it wrong, and practice, you will learn to do it perfectly, wrong.
>>
>    Good point.  An important corollary is to learn to do an operation 
> correctly the first time.  In teaching, showing students examples of the 
> wrong way can be a good learning aid, but it MUST be showed *after* the 
> student has learn the correct way.  If you do it in the wrong order, 
> chances are good that one of the wrong ways will stick and become habit. 
> Cognitive psychology 101... especially in children and young adults.
>
>    -Andy
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