"It went as follows: Learners remember 10% of what they read; 20% of what they hear; 30% of what they see; 50% of what they see and hear; 70% of what they discuss with others; 80% of personal experience; 90% of what they teach someone else. This all sounds about right to me, dispiriting as it is for someone who earns a crust writing things for people to read, and talking about things on the radio, only to find out that 90% of the former and 80% of the latter aren't recalled at all."
"That's a lot of wasted ink and keyboard taps and airtime. Disappointing. Disappointing too, for someone who used to present a lot of television, to read that what you see and hear at the same time scores rather better. Though I don't much miss working on television, I do occasionally feel the need to tell myself that radio and writing are nobler arts which linger longer than television in the minds of the audience. Hmm. Not according to this they don't."
"Whenever I go to schools, I always come away feeling that I've learned a lot more from the experience than any students have learned from me. This visit was no different. I came away enriched, but also completely knackered. I'm in awe of the stamina not only of teachers, but also of students."
A guest attended a Deep Learning Day at a secondary school in Birmingham after accepting a polite invitation. The guest felt anxious about leading the event but left feeling enriched and exhausted, and believed they learned more from students than students learned from them. A single day of intensive learning proved draining for both teachers and pupils, prompting admiration for their stamina. A staffroom notice listed retention rates showing much higher recall from discussion, personal experience, and teaching others than from reading, listening, or seeing alone, which felt dispiriting to someone working in writing and radio.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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