Eric Mazur: Memorization or understanding: are we teaching the right thing?

[@ashek1520]

thought provoking talk.. everyone who is going to teach must think about it..

[@WRKlemm]

This is a wonderful presentation, confirming what I have learned over 50 years of making teaching mistakes. As a "Memory Medic" (thankyoubrain.blogspot.com), I am concerned that other Mazur-enlightened teachers will disdain memorization. The educational problem is not memorization, but MINDLESS memorization. You can't assimilate and apply knowledge without having the knowledge. Mazur's emphasis on active learning not only enhances understanding, but also retention of the underlying knowledge.

[@davidwilkie9551]

little kids of two years old recognize themselves in the "Mirror Test", (and I think it's because it's connection between their intended action and the response in the reflection). The Aristotlian perception is dominated by time because survival depended on the living connection with the world and that was an echo of personal memory in an environment looked upon as a Calendar. Also a mirror test. Now we have a teaching environment assessed in detail in the context of the work of (rote-learned) Pavlovian memnonics and Piaget's Development Stages, (another mirror test of increasing difficulty). So Newtownian, Einsteinian, QM concept development are predominantly memnonics established in symbolic language of math, when Newton had demonstrated a "Metaphysical" process of going from fundamental natural biology to chemistry to math - reductionism. Ie, "simplicity" is hiding in plain sight, in the old world of complex, compound Time and Aristotle.

[@waleed.junaidy]

i wish i could like this video multiple times! haha awesome lecture

[@jessstuart7495]

I've started teaching a few electronics courses at a local community college, and I have found that students are very good at memorizing methods for solving problems, but will typically do very poorly on the conceptual questions I put on my exams where I ask them to explain things in their own words. I've had students complain and say these questions were unfair because they had not explicitly seen that exact question on any homework or test review. I make sure I've covered the relevant concepts in lectures, given multiple examples, and the concepts were used on multiple homework questions. I find these questions are a good way for me to see how much students are really getting out of my class, but it is always a little disappointing.

[@awasthiatul51]

Superb Presentation. Thank you for showing a different path

[@marciomarquesdarocha211]

Why we need to chose? My experience in learning shows me that UNDERSTANDING + MEMORIZATION is the right thing.

[@trueblueguy88]

Rivetting! I just had to see the whole video this is such a good speaker.

[@whoisbhauji]

I laughed more than on most stand ups! So good

[@kharoozy]

Excellent presentation

[@tamarastankovic7081]

41:07

[@PitchBlackGuitarMan]

great great thanks eric !

[@DMoberg]

Very nice presentation :)

[@ggomezivan83]

i want to know how software use Mr Mazur for do this... i'd search this software and i cant't find this.... i really appreciate your help.

[@finnophilepodcast]

Thumbs up

[@whoisbhauji]

The plural of anecdotes is not data

[@ulearnphys]

Apparently you didn't listen to the professor's presentation. His whole point is that absorption isn't what we need to be about.

[@HughChing]

Universal Permanent Education for Developing the Habit of Reason, Not Memorization Abstract This paper describes a complete educational system, which has eliminated all technical barriers and memorization in education. Schools today develop a student the habit of memorization from a very young age. Universal Permanent Education uses the logical numeral I Ching, such as 0 to 7 re[resented as I Ching Numerals ☷, ☳, ☵, ☱, ☶, ☲, ☴, and ☰, which corresponds to the binary system in computer science but uses block instead of serial display, and the completely automated Universal Permanent Software, which allows the access of unlimited amount of knowledge based on Human Associative Memory, to train students in an educational system that is universal, applicable in all languages, and permanent, lasing from the age of 6 to 60 and beyond.

[@ClockSavers]

Too much emphasis is put on memorization, understanding something is better and just looking up something takes seconds.

[@kaoutarrah7995]

Aaaaaaameennnnnn