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Hi, I don't feel great about "calling you out", but I want to ask if you hold a degree, or have pursued extensive study (perhaps to the point of publishing a pe
by wcarss 15y ago
Hi, I don't feel great about "calling you out", but I want to ask if you hold a degree, or have pursued extensive study (perhaps to the point of publishing a peer-reviewed article) in any of the fields of neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, sociology, cognitive development, or educational research?
Your reply comes off as highly authoritative, but I don't want to just default to trusting that you are an expert in every (or even any) field mentioned, and hence, are able to produce an authoritative hierarchy of their usefulness as applied to a specific unsolved problem.
Sorry to be that guy!
- intenex 15y agoHahahaha awesome
- Alex3917 15y agoNo problem. I've taken a few classes on education and I've read a bunch of books on the research. It would be difficult to defend any sort of hierarchy in a rigorous way, but there is generally a pretty good consensus on which findings are the most important. For example, the is a pretty broad agreement that if a kid shows up at school after having not eaten for three days and their parents have been beating the shit out of them, then they probably aren't going to learn very well regardless of what neuroscience theory you're using. And since these sorts of problems effect 80+% of the kids in many school districts, you basically have to design schools around these sorts of issues before you can really start optimizing the content. Albeit all of the research sort of fits together. It's a good question though, so I'll throw up a Squidoo page with a bunch of the best books on education that I've found.
- Alex3917 15y agohttp://twitter.com/#!/AlexKrupp/status/97016704860823552 http://twitter.com/#!/AlexKrupp/status/97016704860823552