They still use the old chalk-and-talk method of teaching," said Kamal Kumar, former director of the National Police Academy.
The sort of people who study engineering may react better (or, indeed, worse) to the deliberate-practice method than, say, those reading fine art or history.Still, Dr Deslauriers and his team are bullish about the wider implications of their work, which adds to the evidence that it may be possible to improve on the long-established chalk-and-talk method.
An Egyptian child is far more likely to be taught using traditional "chalk and talk" methods, where the teacher writes on a blackboard and students are expected to repeat or copy by rote, than any more interactive method.
So it's a learning-by-living concept rather than an intellectual chalk-and-talk".
Thomas Henry Huxley was a dynamic chalk-and-talk lecturer and a fabulous anatomist.
In economics and other quantitatively-oriented disciplines, "chalk and talk" tends to be the dominant method of instruction.
The traditional method of "chalk and talk" lecturing may have its merits, but it often fails to engage students in the first place, to sustain their attention over time, or to meaningfully convey the point of the subject material.
And the only reliable way to make their case is, surely, to conduct a proper study, with children randomly allocated to teachers who use computers and teachers who use other methods, including the cheapest of all: chalk and talk.
He calls it the opposite of "chalk and talk".
The dominant pedagogy for engineering education, especially for numerical subject still remains "chalk and talk".
If it succeeds, though, it will provide a model that could make chalk and talk redundant.
