Re: [lojban] Re: Teaching methods, especially WRT terminators, and validation thereof

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:02:02PM -0700, Lindar wrote:
> 3. Whether or not you or anyone else has directly viewed any kind
> of statistic or result based on any new learning style, the
> unfortunate truth is that I have spent at least 20 hours per month
> (likely much more than that) teaching new people, and I have
> directly observed that people that learn from CLL or L4B (and
> subsequently use {cu} over everything else), don't understand why
> we have terminators, don't grasp their use very easily, and have a
> very hard time understanding when they are needed. 

The problem is that what you describe could easily be about having
had an in-person teacher, more than anything else.  We don't have
any examples, that I'm aware of, of people who were taught by-hand
with {cu} as a major part of the teaching.  Well, except for
everyone who got their first lesson in person at various logfests,
but you say we all don't count, which is very frustrating by the
way.

The only way to actually make a valid comparison would be to teach
interactively in both fashions.

Not that it matters: if what you're doing is working, keep doing it.

That doesn't mean everything else is wrong, though, and I'd ilke you
to stop saying that.

> I actually completely left out {cu} until he asked, and he even
> commented that he didn't understand why it was necessary since at
> most one needs two terminators before any selbri. 

That's a flat-out lie, so I hope you corrected him on this point.

-Robin

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