Question

It is obvious a lot of people give direct answers in this section. I know sometimes you may not mean to, but it still happens (I've fallen into this trap before to). Instead of going through every single post here which has direct answers and deleting it, I thought it would be better if you got some tips on how to learn history and also use these tips to teach it as well.

Answer 1

\[\Large \text{HISTORY TIPS}\]
As I myself am very fascinated with history, and try to learn it time to time, I've discovered a few things that may help you understand history and keep the subject in your mind when you're doing your assignments.

1. Read the book, slides, what ever you need for your assignment. (Yup, I said it, you can't get around this)

2. Take notes of what you're reading.

3. When you're doing the assignment itself, or looking at a multiple choice, I personally took some parts of the method I actually learned in physics and applied it to history, and it works pretty well.
- Identify
- execute
- evaluate

\[\large \text{Identify}\]
Here you will be looking at the relevant concepts in the question, look at the date, what occurred, etc and relate it to your choices, you should also be doing this with your answer choices.

\[\large \text{Execute}\]
Once you have gone over all your choices and the question itself, you take this step and cancel out all the choices you believe don't belong with the question, around this step you'll have to choose between two options or so.

\[\large \text{Evaluate}\]
Finally the step where you take initiative and choose the answer, and reconsider anything else you may have left from steps above. You should also make notes on this step, as similar questions and answers will be related in future questions.

These are just some small tips that helped me learn some history. Once again, I am fascinated by history and these are just my little tips that may or may not help you, but if you have more to add please do, oh and I am not a history major, I just like to learn it for fun :). Hope this helps, and good luck studying history!

Answer 2

lol ok i guess but what do you mean by delete the direct answer in history? in math i dont give direct answers but history is kind of different its harder to walk a person step by step if its not math because math you have to solve by examples but history isnt really solving anything.

Answer 3

I mean, when you look at some posts, a lot of people just say it's "C" or etc without giving any information at all.
When you're trying to help people with history, it's best if you give some information related to the topic or even link them to something that's related. Or try to guide them on how to take on problems by giving them such tips as I just presented. Anything to avoid giving the answer directly.

Answer 4

oh yeah i don't do that i usually give an answer than explain where i found it at, as proof that is.

Answer 5

Yes, even that can be considered as direct answers, because you're giving the answer without letting the user think for themselves and take an attempt at it. Try your best to just guide them, and give them rooms to answer it themselves.

Answer 6

well not all the time sometimes i just do what i did with rainy.

Answer 7

il et them figure it out and just provide little assistance.

Answer 8

That's good :)

Answer 9

Direct Answers takes the point out of openstudy, for the record. I believe that one purpose of this site is so you can be guided to learn a subject area yourself. Just simply getting the answers to everything thrown your way is not healthy for the mind, or the development of the mind, and it can actually stunt its development completely

Answer 10

History is one of the hardest subjects to explain your answer, well at least for some people. Most people ask the simple a b c d question so a new method I have been trying out is explaining each of the wrong answers telling the asker what it is and then when I have finished explaining the wrong choices I will say the answer followed by another explanation.

@iambatman Well that's just my new approach I have only tested it once or twice and it is quite effective. Hope my fellow history brothers and sisters try this out from time to time. :)

Answer 11

true @Joel_the_boss

Answer 12

but at the same time i agree with batman....

Answer 13

i already said what joel said but yeah i agree with that because some people dont even want you to explain it they just want you to tell them because they're in a hurry.

Answer 14

I did notice people giving direct answers on history section, and also it sometimes happens at any multiple choice questions. I used to fall for these kind of questions by actually giving the answer and explain it. Which is completely \(\color{red}{wrong!}\)
Example: http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/527677ede4b09a6bb443ac4d
This is how i explained in history', again i should have not posted the answer early then xD. Oh well, I learned from my mistakes.

Another way: You can still be able to explain and walk the user step by step through the problem. If i noticed a very simple question, i usually link users through good informative websites and articles.

Answer 15

By the way, this is a very awesome post that has ever happened in here. Thanks for sharing Batman!

Answer 16

Great to hear Zale, and no worries, long as we learn from our mistakes it's fine :)!

Answer 17

Good point @iambatman

Answer 18

I agree! I am just trying to show them how to find the answer and then leaving them with two choices also showing them why the answers are wrong

Answer 19

I'm so glad to find this.

Answer 20

I understand what you are saying iambatman but that is hard to do in certain subjects and for certain questions but I do agree with you.

Answer 21

"History is one of the hardest subjects to explain your answer, well at least for some people. Most people ask the simple a b c d question so a new method I have been trying out is explaining each of the wrong answers telling the asker what it is and then when I have finished explaining the wrong choices I will say the answer followed by another explanation."
Originally posted by @Joel_the_boss

I think I have found a problem with this method though. The asker just randomly guesses and I painstakingly explain why it is wrong, but my efforts go to waste because the asker just takes away the answer in the end, and I do not even know if the asker even considered looking at my explanations. This is in my opinion though. I have tried it out, but it seems difficult.

Answer 22

As long as you not just handing out answers, then its fine. Always explain! That's the only point @EclipsedStar :) I think you are doing fine so no need to worry. :D

Answer 23

I feel like this is a GI Joe lecture, but with batman.

Answer 24

You sir, or ma'am, just earned all my respect

Answer 25

@iambatman Could you pls answer something for me???