Honestly, this isn’t a bad way of learning and very closely mimics how our course at Lighthouse works - figure it out yourself, try and find a solution, or ask someone who knows.
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Luckily, my peers were either much smarter than me or much more diligent, and had taken extra time to go ask the professor, a TA, or a student who had already finished the course about how to complete the problem. Oddly, only the labs were really supervised, and assigned problems were often done by myself at home or with a study group of my peers. The phrase “practice makes perfect” holds some truth to it, and most of what I learnt in engineering came from doing the assigned problems or by working through labs and extracurricular projects (such as Formula SAE). Both of these aim to teach students the subject matter in an effective manner however, in my opinion one of them is significantly more efficient at doing so.
One is more traditional while the other is basically what you would call a “flipped classroom” model. You can effectively hide in one while you’re marked on your participation in the other. Obviously these programs are quite different. Majority of marks came from class participation, a single project or report, midterm exam, and final exam.Show up to mandatory class, put hand up and participate in class discussion on cases for marks - alternatively, be cold called and embarrassed if you’re unprepared.Read business cases and readings the night before.Here’s a very brief overview of how things were different between the two programs: Luckily for my social ineptitude, I also earned a business degree and this put me in the fortunate position of being exposed to two very different teaching styles at the same time. It was Pythagorean theorem - something I’m pretty sure I had committed to memory before I even knew how to coherently talk to the opposite sex.Īs you probably guessed from that last comment, I have an engineering degree. I vaguely remember a three-week period in my first year calculus class where we were taken through a proof for what, at the time, I could only imagine was some extremely rare and complex trigonometric equation. It’s called the flipped classroom model, and its being used by bootcamps all over the world to change the way we think about education. Since finishing school and starting Lighthouse Labs, I’ve learned that there’s a model for teaching that is not only more engaging, but also helps students learn more effectively. University left me with the feeling that there must be a more engaging way of learning. What I didn’t like about my university classes wasn’t what I was learning, but how I was learning it. But alas, such is the life of an entrepreneur.
I’m even mad on a pretty regular basis about the fact that I don’t have more time to read. I know that probably sounds weird coming from a guy who has decided to help start what is effectively a programming school, but I’m not kidding.ĭon’t get me wrong, I love what I learnt while I was in school - in fact, I love learning in general.
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