Lecture 1.1.0 - Are You Really Listening?
Lecture Overview
Think about this: What percentage of your daily waking hours do you spend just listening? 10% ? 50% ? 80%? Listening To What? (music, radio, friends talking, the teacher talking and lecturing, your fellow students responding in class etc.
Two of our main senses of “hearing” and “seeing” are wired into what we can call our principal “Learning Style” Some of us are auditory (listening) learners (i.e. you can remember what you hear). Some, (me included), are primarily visual learners. How do you remember best - what you see or what you hear, or a combination of the two?
A great deal of learning is acquired by reading. But as students we are often asked to just listen to teachers’ lectures or watch and listen to videos and PowerPoint presentations. If you are a “poor” listener, easily distracted or find it hard to follow someone who is speaking too quickly, has a strong accent, or a boring style. That can be a problem for active listening.