Dragon's Den Demonstration Case Study

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"Catastrophically Bad Dragon 's Den Demonstration"
Information Service Pay-per-minute number

For the time, pre-smartphones and apps with local search results, this was a sound idea with to contact a Taxi Driver for information, since they have more knowledge than anyone. Anytime I visit Vegas for business; I would talk to the Cab drivers. They know where the best places to eat (cheap and good) and tell you all about how the city is doing, busy hours, and more. The part that failed is the fact that the cost to the consumer is very high but worse, the demo failed as nobody was available to answer the call.

- Expensive at 1 Pound per minute, even more from a mobile phone number, which most people would be calling
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Yes, before Dial-up Internet was even a standard. The presentation is presenting a problem that was around for centuries, but the digital age has made it more apparent that visual learning works so much better for more people that they may have realized. I did not know about the various learning styles until long after I attended a tech school that was based on Kinesthetic learning where after a 4-hour class, a 4-hour lab followed within 8 hours or less of that day 's lecture. We learn by doing after hearing and seeing examples. It was an entertainment school, so it was natural since it is focused on the arts, but the technology was a driving factor. Fast forward to today where I am returning to school for an online education, I can say that I still prefer the interactive learning with online tech solutions, compare to a traditional classroom. With distractions from other students while a lecture is being auditory delivered. There is little to no Kinesthetic adoption of the lesson besides writing as fast as one can write while missing some keywords being spoken and no ability to rewind the conversation. I was considered a special aid student when I couldn 't keep up with the other students in elementary school and stayed that way until there weren 't any special aid classes in high school. Barely passing any classes, I graduated remembering very …show more content…
They then take it apart to see how it works. They didn 't get a body frame, then wait a year to get an engine, then wait another year before they get a steering wheel and then have to wait for the clutch, gearbox, stick shift, and then say, can I drive now? No, you need tires, and then an exhaust pipe, and we will talk about that when you reach college. People learn from reverse engineering. Algebra could be done the same way. Throw the large problem on the board. Let everyone freak out. Then explain why the problem is even on the board by showing an image of what the math problem actually solves. If students understand why they are being taught something, then they will want to know how to take apart the problem, find the pieces, and then focus on each piece while seeing all the components at once. As they finish learning a piece of the math puzzle, then they will visually see how it all fits back together and the real world photo will match the math problem making the connection as to why and the

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