Step 1: Education
Step 2: Online class and in-class lecture
Step 3: The methods of how students learn either online in class or both
Step 4: Online students learn based on what they see than writing
Step 5: The technique of handwritten notes than typing on computers increases brain activity
Step 6: Increase engagement activities such as exercise problems and in-class lecture time to convert listeners to doers, which improves their cognitive thinking and behavior learning experience.
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
I do love coffee, GamersPet, and I like to think that caffeine has benefits, but I don’t much favor a “catalog thesis” that collects a bunch of benefits and describes them each superficially. You might find five articles that each describe a different small health benefit and devote a paragraph to each, but that sort of survey only satisfies the casual reader of a general health magazine “Top Ten Reasons Coffee is Cool” feature.
What I do find intriguing about your proposal is the phrase “dosage amount,” which clearly indicates that one could consume too much or too little of this uncontrolled substance for maximum benefit.
I THINK what you’re suggesting is that the only benefit of coffee that interests you is what the caffeine provides in the way of metabolic alteration, so . . .
so why is the coffee needed? Pepsi has plenty of caffeine. So do Excedrin tablets. So does a caffeine tablet. As long as we’re “dosing,” couldn’t we do it more effectively by ingesting a calibrated amount?
Let me know what you think.
Regarding your Rewrite:
I think there’s a chance to make a good essay on the shortcomings of online learning, GamersPet, but you’re not there yet.
Do some research and see if there’s a more compelling reason to prefer the in-class format (or a more powerful objection to self-directed learning).
Of the three, I like the online learning hypothesis best, but it’s still way too vague to result in any actual insights.
We don’t yet have a chance to visualize the actual differences between the in-person and online versions of delivering course material. If you want to make me happy (you might not) you’ll have to use more specific examples of lesson plans.
Take, for example, the exercise we conducted in class the other day, when I guided the class through an examination of several Citation Exercises, showing where the samples got the punctuation and phrasing right, and where they did not, then correcting them in a fresh version that included the improvements.
Would that lesson be the same online? What would it look like online? A video of the same exercise? A print version of uncorrected/corrected examples? A multiple choice test that asked students to choose the best example from a set of versions?
THIS is when vague claims about instructor/learner interactions start to be useful. And until you get granular in that way, no amount of general language about distractions or attention span really mean anything.
Your reactions, please?
I appreciate these feedbacks throughout the days.
Based on the questions of which version is the best, I believed that what was being taught through lectures online or in-class would be the same topic. However, if the learner is learning based on what they are seeing versus hands on action orientated the takeaway would be different. If a learner is just sitting and staring at a screen then their minds would move elsewhere, but if a learner is writing, and doing hands on activities such as doing exercise problems or writing notes then the results would be different. Cause I believed that the motion of the hand of writing versus typing are two key different variables because when we type on a computer or a laptop, we would have muscle memory with little to no brain power because the layout of the letters on the keyboard will always be the same. On the other hand, when we use pen and paper; our brain power would significantly increase because we use our hands to write down what we hear cause our brains would store words to send them through our hands to write down what we hear instead of what we see. The words would come from one ear in, and out the other if we stare at a screen whereas the words come from one ear to the brain, and then to our hands.
I don’t want to say is this correct or not, but I would like to know if I’m heading on the right direction for my hypothesis.
Thank you.
What you suggest is certainly one way in which online work might differ from in-person work, but it’s also possible to conduct an in-person class where students use their keyboards to do their exercises, such as we do in our class.
What’s good about the thinking you’re doing now is that you’ve trying hard to DEFINE what you mean by in-person learning versus ONLINE learning.
That’s a good foundation for your first 1000 words of Definition/Categorical writing, GamersPet. Keep working to identify the ways in which one or the other style of learning is more effective. You’ll be fine as long as you stay to the specifics. This is the sort of essay that will benefit very much from anecdotal evidence of how classwork is actually done.