Post#4

This week I finished what I set out to do last week. I went to kickboxing class twice.

But I miscalculated how long I was going to study for the midterm, which had more content than I expected, so I didn’t have time to learn the new kickboxing from video.

The movements I learned through video were no different from those taught in face-to-face classes.

However, there is a big mirror in class, so I can observe my actions and the teacher will correct my mistakes in time.

I feel I can get immediate feedback from face-to-face classes, which gives me confidence in my study.Because when I was learning at home, I didn’t know if I was doing it right.

I thought it might be possible to learn from a medium like video, but it didn’t seem rich, but this “simplest medium” did give me the basics of kickboxing.

About technology and learning.I think technology is a method, but it is a matter of opinion which method teachers use to teach and which method students use.

Of course, for ‘robo tutor’ like Knewton, I think its algorithm is not comprehensive enough. So the ‘black box’ is too rigid. In my opinion, if you want to implement such learning methods, you need an extremely powerful algorithm library, and you need timely feedback from learners to collect problems and give timely feedback.

But now this kind of website if only for making money, did not seriously to expand the algorithm library, so will not have a good learning effect.

My goal for next week was to continue with kickboxing class, I can’t keep up with other people’s physical strength. I was out of breath after just warming up. So I will continue to attend the course and I plan to go there twice next week.