We see, we do, and then we learn. He likes the smell of the bike shop, and the banter with the other class participants. It's something he can do with his hands. He has no confidence that he could learn in the same way from a computer program. Portia, his instructor, has become his mentor.
Students remember great teachers.
Nort said that he was once given the advice to tape his lecture so that it could be shown when he had to miss a class so that he would not have to make up the class. He was horrified at the idea. Technology is great when it assists the learning process, but it can't substitute for it. It does help for all students to see the sections and how they tie together. Can a computer say, let's take an intelligent deviation from the topic.