After my previous whinge regarding the bewildering complexity of modern equipment I had a further thought. Given how easy it seems to be to invent new functions for pieces of modern equipment, why not also include lessons on how to learn to use them? Instead of working out how to use a mobile phone, or up-market microwave oven by pressing all the knobs to see what they do or don’t or might do in the appropriate circumstances, why not include a lesson that starts off with the simple functions and, if desired, later moves on to learning more complex ones. These apparatuses have screens, so it should be easy to project teaching instructions.
As a university lecturer (now retired), I would have been deficient if all I spouted was information, and failed to explain the context, and how best the knowledge could be acquired, used and retained by my students.
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