How We Learn Best

Dale Edgar studied how people learn and created the "Cone of Learning" to illustrate it. His findings validate what I will be doing teaching seminary this school year.

Listening to lectures is one of the least effective ways to learn. However I believe it is effective to talk in front of the class to explain a context or set the stage for what they will be learning. Reading the scriptures also sets the stage for learning, and we'll be doing that as well.

So while there will be some lecturing and reading, I want to spend a fair amount of time having the students participate in discussions and teaching/sharing the scriptures with other over the new media.

Here is the Cone of Learning: