(08-06-2014, 11:13 PM)PhysoniumI Wrote: Proposition 7
Teaching multiple people at once is not at all possible. A. Everyone wants to learn different things. B. Everyone knows different things. C. People understand different things faster than others.
Teaching something technical like redstone without any pre-written materials is completely different from teaching in a classroom. You have to rely mainly off the student's intelligence to figure out what's happening. Some people can do that, while others can't. This proves to be problematic as everyone's in different spots, having to answer even more questions (even with a WPM around 80 that proves to be difficult with 1-2 people) would prove near-impossible and over all detrimental to the understanding of the students.
This is quite untrue. I've had audiences of 4 or 5 people at once, and everything went very well.
A. Yes, everyone does want to learn different things, but the order in which you learn them stays the same for every student. If they want to learn something unique, they can have a more private lesson or join in on another mass lesson
B. Students will not be forced to join mass lessons. It would be absolutely unreasonable to force someone who hardly knows binary into an ALU lesson. They can choose to join whichever lesson they want, and multiple lessons covering multiple topics of multiple skill levels will be taught. The fact that everyone knows different things does not mean mass lessons fail. Think of it like real life school: Everyone knows different things, but there are different grades to compensate for that. Grades would be like a large lesson.
C. By creating a good curriculum, you can create material in a progressive and orderly way such that it is a good speed for everyone. If someone is struggling, they can ask for help after the lesson.
And relying on student's intelligence to know what's going on? How does that make mass lessons unsuccessful? That's just a measure of how well students are getting the material. It is no different than a lesson involving 1 or 2 students. Besides, some people do have prewritten materials to aid in their teaching; others who are good at memorizing can teach without them.
Qualified teachers are absolutely essential to this system. Practice and a greater population of teachers is also needed. And how do we get more teachers? Increase the popularity (after everything is sorted out, of course). How do teachers become qualified? By being taught in a good manner by others. While an audience of 1 or 2 people is more personalized, it just doesn't work out at all. There are just too many people to teach and not enough time/willpower to do it. Mass lessons, while slightly less individualized, make teaching more worthwhile and interesting for everyone, thus increasing how enjoyable teaching is and the amount of overall students learning.
It is very possible, even better, to teach a large audience. To reduce questions, teachers need to develop a good curriculum and learn from previous shortcomings/mistakes. This is not too hard to do, and teaching will become fun when you feel like you are helping lots of people. And to keep everything under control, a better environment (more orderly, friendly, and effective) and slightly stricter enforcement of things like spam and roughhousing will mitigate wild behavior.