You’re probably learning (reinforcing) more than one skill at a time, in different proportions. Sometimes you unavoidably reinforce a bad thing but it’s still worthwhile in order to learn a good thing at the same time. It’s very good to be aware of all that you are learning—so I suggest formulating your question in the plural: “what skills am I training, at what tradeoffs?”
For example:
You’re going to make some mistakes as you learn a new piece of music; as you practice more, you stop making mistakes. There are better and worse tradeoffs in terms of initial playing speed and mistakes made.
While students learn to take notes (irrelevant) and parrot the teacher’s answers (mostly harmful), they also learn actual math, and this can be a great tradeoff.
You’re probably learning (reinforcing) more than one skill at a time, in different proportions. Sometimes you unavoidably reinforce a bad thing but it’s still worthwhile in order to learn a good thing at the same time. It’s very good to be aware of all that you are learning—so I suggest formulating your question in the plural: “what skills am I training, at what tradeoffs?”
For example:
You’re going to make some mistakes as you learn a new piece of music; as you practice more, you stop making mistakes. There are better and worse tradeoffs in terms of initial playing speed and mistakes made.
While students learn to take notes (irrelevant) and parrot the teacher’s answers (mostly harmful), they also learn actual math, and this can be a great tradeoff.