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This looks awesome. But: 1. Grain of salt: contemporary research shows how learning has other facets that are also important like grit[1] (i.e. repetitive appl
by itissid 8y ago
This looks awesome. But:
1. Grain of salt: contemporary research shows how learning has other facets that are also important like grit[1]
(i.e. repetitive application of hard work that has the right direction).
2. Contemporary research suggests that when learning a new concept is made "easier" using such methods its more efficient. On the contrary this is only the first step. Learning is better when its harder, but harder in a very specific sense: recall and mixing different concepts in tests spaced appropriately is really the hard work[2]
3. Contemporary research is also very much against bucketing learning as just only about "Learning Styles", like learning with music, play and pictures for the very same reason as above.
I also love the WWC: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/ https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/ Its a much standardize way look at what educational techniques pass muster in the real world. I wonder what similar to mathigon is present in WWC's list.
[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/0y545gn2withb5e/DuckworthPetersonMatthewsKelly_2007_PerseveranceandPassion.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/0y545gn2withb5e/DuckworthPetersonM...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Make-Stick-Peter-C-Brown-ebook/dp/B00JQ3FN7M https://www.amazon.com/Make-Stick-Peter-C-Brown-ebook/dp/B00...
- jacobolus 8y agoYes, this format makes it hard to ask very difficult questions, and the little chat bot rewarding the students with animated gifs of cartoon characters is a gimmick. This is okay for teaching basic vocabulary and concepts, but seems to go no further than a pretty superficial exploration. Not much ingenuity or thinking is required from the students. Everything is pre-digested. If a high school student were trying to learn about transformation geometry, working through Yaglom’s books of hard problems (Geometric Transformations, 4 thin volumes) would yield a much deeper understanding than going through https://mathigon.org/course/transformations-and-symmetry/transformations https://mathigon.org/course/transformations-and-symmetry/tra...
- robfitz 8y agoI think you're focused on making good learners great (which I assume is the journey you experienced in school), but there's also a fairly large opportunity in helping every student get up to a certain baseline of "pretty good". A student who can't grasp how to plot a point isn't going to benefit from Geometric Transformations.
- Secretmapper 8y agoCan you expound on your third point? I'm having a hard time parsing it.
- itissid 8y agoHave a look at Chapter 6 in the Make It Stick book.