The Teaching Method

I personally greatly appreciated this style of teaching and method for learning through assignments. Almost all of the classes I have taken at Berkeley are based on an individual effort where all the assignments, homework, labs, essays, and exams are judged on an individual basis. And often times I end up just studying and memorizing a lot of information before the exam to forget it a few days after. 

Our lives these days revolve so heavily around social media so why don't all classes take advantage of it? Social media in the classroom comes with a stigma for distraction and deviation from proper learning. I think Professor Lavian has successfully proved that this is not always the case. That in fact, social media can be utilized to aid education and learning. 

The reason I appreciated this learning style was due to the lack of pressure for studying for an exam allowed me to not only focus and learn what I was doing rather than memorize, but gave me the opportunity to learn from and with my peers. Through blogposts I was able to put down my thoughts on paper and after gathering them I was able to verbalize them through the youtube videos. Along with sharing information that I learned, I found the comments and feedback to be the most helpful. The comments helped me understand what I was doing right and what I was doing wrong. I learned that if you don’t understand what was taught in class there are often other students who understand it and may very well be capable of explaining it to others. The teaching style for IEOR 190G gave me the opportunity to learn from my peers.