Learning Through Asking?

There are many different ways of teaching. From the traditional class room setting where a teacher lectures students through out class to a more innovative process that allows students to be given a topic upon which they are responsible to look into and eventually draw their own conclusions. But through both processes, the teacher is there to help guide students in the direction that they should be aiming.

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But what happens when there is a topic that the teacher themselves have a hard time explaining? What tools are available for students then? The simplest way to fix this is to turn to the internet. But let's take it one step further. Let's use the internet, but not at the same time. Take a tool, Skype, that allows you to call someone with a web cam on your computer. What? Call someone to talk to you online? Yes! Through the power of video conferencing, you can now find someone that is an expert in the area that you need help with.

And that is exactly what we got to do in my 5th period Principles of Democracy class. While learning about the election progress, people always have the same question about the same topic. What is the Electoral College and what do they do? So, when we got to this question, we turned to an expert. And who was that expert? Well, this man has made it to the New York Best Sellers list, and held his position at the top for 35 consecutive weeks. With his unbiased looks into many different topics, he allows readers to see things in a new light. He makes things easy to understand while keeping it interesting.

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 Author Kenneth C Davis was kind enough to join our class and explain the topic to us. But he did it in a way that isn't a norm in most classrooms. He didn't simply preach to us. He briefly explained it to us, but then allowed us to ask him questions about the topic that we personally felt were important to our understanding of the topic. Personally, I felt like this was EXTREMELY helpful. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against my teachers teaching in their own styles and concepts. The Don't Know Much About... books that Mr. David wrote hold a lot of insight and hold covers a wind variety of topics. And like I said, he spells it out in a way that is easy for beginners to understand. I would suggest this to anyone that is looking for the things that aren't covered in the textbooks.

If you would like to know more about Mr. Davis, or simple have a question for him, you can follow him on Twitter. A brilliant man that clearly knows where his passions lie, he can advise you and walk you through just about any questions that you may have.