Cavendish and Berzelius converted their homes into laboratories where demonstration lectures were held on regular basis.
6 Read the following quotation and discuss it with your partner.
7 Read the text and choose an appropriate heading for each paragraph. a. Involves application and deals with real life situations b. It is more interesting c. Can motivate team work d. Interactive Education creates a Deeper Impact e. It does not require mugging up f. Includes practice g. Improves skills h. Knowledge retains in our mind i. Develops a better Understanding j. Interesting => Easy
no practice involved unless the theoretical teaching*
converted into practical activities. ^ Training and exercise are meant to improve уоЛ skills which cannot be obtained by just theoretic® knowledge. Theory can provide one with oodles of expertise and proficiency but it can never deliver those kinds of results and improved skills that you can gd from practical education. - I spent whole of my middle school wonderinj that what purpose it solves by knowing Sine thea square plus cosine theta square equals one. But when introduced to its applications I realized wha] importance trigonometry holds in architecture and its related fields. So unless you are applying youi theoretical knowledge to real life situations througH practical experiments theory doesn’t hold mucn good and you will keep wondering that why you are studying that particular topic. - Field trips, projects, experiments, don’t they interest you more than books, assignments and lectures? I am sure they do, because they are so much more interesting and engrossing than reading your regular bookish material. I manage to survive through a one hour long chemistry class but give me an experiment and I can stay busy in it for hours. - This is pretty obvious. When you find something interesting and have got your heart in it does seen
- When we are practically looking at things and
experiencing it, we do not need to cram it from a book. You might spend hours learning the climatic conditions of Africa but a visit to Africa can stick the picture in your mind instantly and very effectively. Not mugging up takes off loads of pressure form a student’s brain thus helping in the learning process and also for relieving stress from over their heads. - — When we are cramming a lesson for a test, our brain tends to remember it for a short while which can be shorter than the duration of your test thus not serving that purpose also because our brain forgets it easily. While doing it practically, it can be in form of experiments, real life projects or educational trips, the knowledge and the whole learning experience stays in our mind for long. - Just by reading about a phenomenon or a lesson, it cannot get straight to your mind even though it may be explained in the best manner. You actually got to see it happening in front of your eyes and not by hearing it in somebody else’s words. Practical knowledge can help a lot over here because it is all there. - Reading a lesson over and over again can be of little help. But performing activities or experiments based on it involves practice and you have heard it right, “Practice makes a man perfect”. So just sitting in a corner with a book or listening to a lecture has
easy. And especially when learning through practical
sources instead of conventional theoretical ones, the [leaning process does become comparatively easier. 'Also while you are doing something practically, it beaches your brain more effectively making it easier to understand, apply and remember. - While imparting practical knowledge to students, most of the activities involve team projects or programs where students are required to work in a group or as a team. On one hand it improves a student’s ability to interact with his/her fellow Students and encourage them all for team work. On ; the other hand it also makes the learning process more fun as students are able to grasp more while Beaming it in a group. And you learn more while having fun. Щ -Whereas in practical works, inputs from students i are not just invited but are also necessary. Interactive [sessions, experiments, interactive exercises, are important features of practical education which : ensure the involvement of students, making them learn and understand more. And learning is the ■fundamental purpose of education, so in order to improve the leaning level, more importance should ibe given to practical education as well. 8 Read the following definitions. Find eqi^H
words or phrases for them in the text.
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