Learning from Mistakes

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Learning from Mistakes

• A different way of learning

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What is Learning from Mistakes?

• A way of testing the depth of understanding
  achieved by students.
• A fun method of getting information about usually
  boring subjects across.
• A last resort for a lecturer who had tried
  everything!

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How it evolved

• Initially applied to CAD drawings then to
  standard BS 8888 technical drawings.
• The drawings were produced with mistakes on them
  and labelled as the lecturers own work.
• Students were asked to mark the mistakes and note
  what was wrong.
• Then they were told not to make the same mistakes
  themselves in their work.

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Why use this idea?

• The same mistakes re-occurred annually .
• Telling students how to draw to standard did not
  always work.
• Practicing their own drawings, with feedback from
  lecturer was not always successful.
• Students really like to find fault with a
  lecturers work.
• It is a totally different and a fun way of
  assessing knowledge

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When can this be used?

• As a formative, but fun, session.
• When students have already had feedback and need
  reinforcement of theories.
• To assist learning in problem areas.
• To give detailed information in a format which
  will help the student to produce better work.

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What next?A mini project.

• There are plans to expand this idea into other
  areas of Engineering where there is a history of
  recurring student difficulties.
• Thermo-fluids
• Mechanics
• Communication

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