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Libraries have existed for much longer than Wikipedia. And probably showed up before schools in many parts of the world. So if access to info was all it took s
by gsatic 4y ago
Libraries have existed for much longer than Wikipedia. And probably showed up before schools in many parts of the world.
So if access to info was all it took schools would have never been invented.
Access to info is just one piece. The other piece is a good guide/teacher who knows which routes through the ever expanding library of knowledge are fruitful and which ones to avoid. Justly randomly meandering around is a very inefficient and time consuming way of working out what the right paths are.
Third piece which most people sweep under the carpet, and most critical to Learning is practice. The brain hardly ever registers anything deeply without repetition. And creating an environment where that practice is happening is not straight forward. Its more tempting to go look at something novel than to read the same thing again and again till its on your finger tips. Good teachers create such environments. The Internet is great in the access to info dept, but there are other pieces to the story for Learning to happen.
- frozencell 4y ago> Libraries have existed for much longer than Wikipedia That's what I thought untig using Wikipedia a lot. With books information is hardly linked, difficult to save. With Wikipedia, it's super easy to bookmark or copy link in Notes. > Justly randomly meandering around is a very inefficient and time consuming way of working out what the right paths are. School and innovation is mostly about meandering around for many years. I find general knowledge notions (geography and history) very useful to attack mathematics, physics or biology notions for example. I think what's very important there is how we link the Wikipedia knowledge and its sources in some "virtual palace". > again and again till its on your finger tips. Good teachers create such environments From my experience in school and college, we have the lecture one or a few times and no more. Wikipedia + Google/Lectures + Notebooks make it fun for me to go back to enhance my own notes: add an explaination image, some notes, add a link.
- gsatic 4y agoYup Wiki/internet definately has advantages over books and libraries. Just that there are processes going on outside of better quality info, better access to info etc. Maybe someday some one will find better ways to incorporate them and produce better learning environments. Nothing is static. Things are always changing. People have been talking about it eg - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VW31eOorx-I https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VW31eOorx-I But Today I think lot of kids (and adults) are getting lost because of the sheer amount of info. Lot more needs to be done to improve it.