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Many orders of magnitude more effort has been spent on the latter to little avail.
by concordDance 5y ago
Many orders of magnitude more effort has been spent on the latter to little avail.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoI disagree - we have excellent tooling avaliable to cram and compile code into smallest CPUs, but our teaching methods are still the same as they were in 1800's
- concordDance 5y agoI think this reveals a lot of ignorance on the huge amounts of different teaching methodologies and techniques that have risen and fallen over the last 100 years.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoI have spent 15 years in the educatuonal system and I feel I am qualified to state that the methods are very obsolete. A week of playing Kerbal Space programm gave me better understanding of orbits than years studying calculus, physics, general and special relativity. It has poor applicability in everyday life - we learn all the biology of a cell but kid's don't know the difference between aspirin and ibuprophene.
- summm 5y agoAfaik Kerbal's simulation is non-relativistic, so you shouldn't have learnt anything about relativity from Kerbal...