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While I definitely appreciate the existence of pretty and accessible books like this, I wonder how effective spaced repetition is. If the end goal is testing th
by formalsystem 6y ago
While I definitely appreciate the existence of pretty and accessible books like this, I wonder how effective spaced repetition is. If the end goal is testing the rate of retaining information then I definitely agree that spaced repetition is great.
However, my take is that people that have mastered subjects are the ones that can create stuff with that information so I believe the goal of "education" should be to graduate people to creators as soon as possible. Instead of flashcards why not graduate people to messing around with a quantum simulator. I'm not even sure how important memory is these days.
As far as I'm concerned some of the best educators out today are the Zachtronics and the Factorio devs. I hope more people follow in their footsteps.
- alentodorov 6y agoquantum.country is actually a study in the effectiveness of spaced repetition. Andy and Michael have documented the results from Quantum Country here — https://numinous.productions/ttft/ https://numinous.productions/ttft/
- alentodorov 6y agoAndy goes into even deeper detail of the need of having Executable Books in order to enable learning — https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z2UKZTkAbLUKR85d92gqB7ahoxcS2tpB2ah2?stackedNotes=z244xx3kMf1v8UnkZKUwQBAwBsHLpUgN4YhsG https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z2UKZTkAbLUKR85d92gqB7ahoxcS...