Posted by MHK on August 02, 2001 at 12:45:08:
In Reply to: The old ways aren't always the best ways posted by e-shark on August 02, 2001 at 12:17:25:
Posted by e-shark on August 02, 2001 at 12:17:25:
"Right there it tells you right off the bat that the instructor can be replaced by a cd-rom."
For much of the classroom work for a traditional scuba class, you bet
ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!! You can't get proper feedback from a cd-rom.. You can't aski direct follow up questions from a cd-rom.. You don't get the interaction from the instructor and other students who may be struggling with the same concepts from a cd-rom. Not to mention if you look at the material contained in the cd itself they are teaching you all the wrong things.. One of the primary objectives of a good instructor is to be able to evaluate the comfort and comprehension level of a student and that can't be done when he/she is sitting home watching tv..
Posted by e-shark on August 02, 2001 at 12:17:25
How the beginning diver acquires that basic knowledge is not itself important, provided that it is acquired.
WHAT???????? If that is the case then why do we always hear that *it isn't the agency, it's the instructor*???? Garbage in and garbage out.. This cd-rom crap is nothing more than a money making marketing ploy that allows shops to spend less time with students and push more through the assembly line...
Posted by e-shark on August 02, 2001 at 12:17:25:
We accept children reading textbooks at home and doing practice problems for homework. A CD-ROM is not fundamentally different.
They are completely different.. In school your child is taught something by the teaching and then told to go home and study it.. He isn't told to go home and watch TV and learn it... That are two completely different things!!!!!!
You wrote further:
#1 20' max for :20
#2 20' max for :21
#3 20' max for :28
#4 35' max for :18
Given the location of these dives, the depths and times, and that there were five students in the class, there couldn't have been a tremendous amount of skills performed.
I don't care what agency or what shop it was, you got ripped off and that is in NO way teaching someone to dive and it's barely teaching them to breath underwater..
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