I learn best through observation and tactile feedback. I have discovered, in my new want to play the electric guitar, that sometimes the best way to get The Blues in your bones is to have someone physically put it there
through the pressure of touch. My new learning mantra is: “Play it On
My Arm!”
We are big supporters of the power nap. We know sleep heals. We believe you can make up on missed sleep even if it kills you.
The instructional DVD — “The Blues Guitar of Hubert Sumlin” — is a mix of genius and boredom. When Hubert is playing: Pure Genius. When “interviewer” Jimmy Vivino is interrupting Hubert: Boredom.
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As we are watched and surveilled by those around us — is cheating in plan sight a clever plan against the purpose of the Panopticon — or do we need to pretend online “study aids” are really helpful to the soul and not deceitful against the mind?
Is Cramster.com a “community of learning” or is it just a chance to cheat better in class at $9.95 a month for access to all the answers?
This year’s Open Ed conference brought to light a strange, new, phenomenon of students listening to prerecorded video lectures at double speed in order absorb the information faster. In theory, that sounds like a neat idea: Listen to a lecture in half the time and you can listen to twice as many lectures in the timespan it would take you to listen to one live lecture.
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