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0 pointsshkkmo4y ago0 comments

> But doing dishes during a lecture seems antithetical to what they are trying to achieve.

They are trying to exclude large swathes of the population?

It is extremely common for people with ADD to focus better when they keep the part of their brain that distracts them busy. In college I folded origami in lectures so that my brain wouldn't go off on tangents that would lead to me tuning out significant sections of the lecture.

Some people combat the tangents by being busy, and some people embrace the tangents (which can be valuable for understanding) by listening to lectures multiple times.

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itsoktocry4y ago

>It is extremely common for people with ADD to focus better when they keep the part of their brain that distracts them busy.

They should cater to those people as opposed to other people for whom bite-sized learning works better? When did we become a society that expects everyone else to cater to our specific needs? No one is being "excluded".

If that's the way you need to learn, fantastic. There are options out there for you. It wasn't that long ago when none of this existed.

shkkmoOP4y ago

> They should cater to those people as opposed to other people for whom bite-sized learning works better?

I didn't say that. The claim was made that learning in this method is incompatible with taking a college level course. I was demonstrating how that attitude is both blatantly false and exclusionary.

> When did we become a society that expects everyone else to cater to our specific needs?

The value of accessibility and inclusivity in education has long been recognized. Why does online learning get a pass from considering this?

Edit: There is no problem with one person saying "I learn better this way" and someone else saying ”I learn better this other way". The problem is when people say "the way you learn is inferior and not suited to college level material" because that is exclusionary.

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