Day 18
Chapter 9 Where Do We Go from Here?
THE PROMISE OF DELIBERATE PRACTICE
HOMO EXERCENS
Summary
The experiment of UBC students perform in a designated new teaching method of physics class based on delibrate practice indicates largely improved scores of the class, which emphasized the proactive thinking, engagement, and immediate feedback.
This is how training methods could be modified based on the delibrate practice. The same was carried out for top atheletes, whose mental representation was effictive and was further improved after their training.
If the methodology is taken serious in other fields, to more population than just the very top, the effect would be astonishing. One of the fields is education, and it is also how we all should try to train ourselves and work our potential out. The skill and information of it shall be in doing and feedback.
顶尖艺术家、学者和运动员的训练成功之法，在UBC仅后半学期的大幅成绩提升中获得验证——日常的教育，练习领域，我们都可以运用刻意练习的方法获得成功。
词汇学习
bas‧ti‧on /ˈbæstiən $ -tʃən/ noun [countable]
1 something that protects a way of life, principle etc that seems likely to change or end completely
bastion of
These clubs are the last bastions of male privilege.
2 a place where a country or army has strong military defences
Pearl Harbor was the principal American bastion in the Pacific.
3 technical a part of a castle wall that sticks out from the rest
原文出处：And this is what he and his two colleagues set out to demonstrate in that bastion of traditional teaching, the freshman physics course.
pon‧der /ˈpɒndə $ ˈpɑːndər/ ●○○ verb [intransitive, transitive]
formal to spend time thinking carefully and seriously about a problem, a difficult question, or something that has happened SYN consider
He continued to ponder the problem as he walked home.
ponder on/over/about
The university board is still pondering over the matter.
ponder how/what/whether
Jay stood still for a moment, pondering whether to go or not.
原文出处：Several clicker questions were asked during the course of the class, and sometimes Deslauriers might have the student groups discuss a question a second time, after he had offered some thoughts for them to ponder.