I am enjoying teaching here in Hawaii. So you don’t feel sorry for me soaking up all the beaches and warm weather; we are inside much of the day in class. Here the students are working on their assignment for a 1:3 lighting ratio.

If you want to see their assignment, it is in an earlier blog post.

You will need to return next week when I hope to post some of their photos.

Fuji X-E2, XF 18-55mm, ISO 6400, ƒ/2.8, 1/140

No matter how much I told the students, it wasn’t until they started shooting did they come to see if they understood the concepts.

The cool thing is I don’t jump in and help them. Instead, I let the students work in small groups and teach each other. So you see, they are synthesizing the information when they teach something they just learned.

If you listen to someone, you probably only get about 5% of the content. If you read about it, then 10%, but when you start practicing, you are now in the Kinesthetic level of learning, and the average recall of the content after 24 hours is 50% or better.

Based on research, you will retain what you learned when you have hands-on learning and get to practice. As a result, you will keep 75% of the content.

Those students who helped their classmates understand a concept they had just grasped will recall 90% of that concept the following day.

Give me a call. I do personal one-on-one workshops, or you can have me come and lead your camera club in a hands-on workshop.