Jeff Liebermann wrote:

Also, one other minor thing. When someone takes
the time to explain how something works,
I suggest you not repackage what they provided
and ask them if that's is what they meant.
Doing that is a trick that students sometimes
do to reverse the situation on their
instructors. Instead of the instructor asking
questions, and the student providing an
explanation or answer, the student ask the
instructor the same question repackaged, and in
effect tests if the instructor understands the
question. The process does not demonstrate that
you've learned anything more than rearranging
a question.

What is happening is the instructor is using
words, phrases and presents a flow of thoughts
and maybe half of that is understood/followed by
the student.

The student tries to explain the same thing,
but in a language and mindset he/she
understands and recognizes, and organizes the
material in a way that makes more sense for
him/her.

E.g.,

Instructor: The sum of 5 and 4 is 9.

Student: You mean if you add 4 to 5, you get 9?

Instructor: Yes.

What has happened? Then student has understood
what is going on, so he or she can sleep at
night, AND s/hes given a chance to acquire
proper terminology.

When you own a tool or piece of technology it
is often very easy to understand what it does
and how it works.. But explaining it to someone
who doest have it, maybe never saw ti, is much
more difficult.


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