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by aik 15y ago
Ok we're on the same page then. I fear that the word "drill" is often linked to mindless repetition without caring for motivation. However, as that paper says ("The instructional task is not to "kill" motivation by demanding drill...") it e
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Could you tell me which cognitive psychologists say drills create a solid foundation? I agree that cognitive scientists say that extensive background knowledge is necessary for a solid foundation, however having background knowledge does no
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I have trouble believing all these "accidental leakages" are actually accidents. The new trendy marketing gimmick?
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> "But these stories of hero teachers spending 12 hours a day, every day working to prep for class sound highly improbable to me" The stories I hear about are the ones of teachers working ~12 hours a day because they teach several diffe
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Perhaps we need to talk in scales or include some comparators here. I completely agree that difficulty does drop some with more subject knowledge, teaching experience, and familiarity with the subject and types of questions and students, bu
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by aik 15y ago
Very interesting -- thanks for the reference! Will read through it this evening. I sincerely hope it proposes good methods of improving teachers, ones other than the horribly flawed method of judging teachers based on student test scores.
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> "The first time you teach a class, it’s incredibly hard and time consuming, but the difficulty drops like a logarithm to a relatively low plateau after you’ve done it a few times. This appears to be reflected in data." I'm not entirel
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You clearly see intelligence as malleable, which is great. The problem is many people don't (they view it as fixed), and Dweck's studies show that praising intelligence enforces this view. Dweck talks about good number of consequences of ha
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I think this study is being misunderstood here. Giftedness in most cases isn't something you either have or don't. Often it's a result of a better intellectually stimulating environment when growing up. Students of the same age that grew u
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I'm no writer but have a number of passions I write about often -- just one idea: I would continue to promote the ideas of the book (after all, it's the ideas I would be passionate about, not the book itself), and include a passive mention
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I am curious about this book, however unfortunately at the moment I'm sick of the marketing efforts. There's been a bit too much book related BUY ME NOW spam on Twitter for months and months on end.
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Not necessarily. My company is often hiring and I have friends who potentially need jobs, however unless I don't think they would be a good (or great) fit, I probably wouldn't mention it to them.
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This advice sounds a bit immature to me (which the author hints at in the end) -- it's sounds like a sign of one who hasn't taken "know thyself" to heart -- that the author defines himself and is motivated through the expectations and desir
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Legal wiretapping doubled? I wonder how the illegal kind is doing.
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The value isn't in knowing which books to read, but rather is in the Socratic classroom learning environment with 2 teachers per classroom and a 1-8 teacher-student ratio. Assuming the teachers are of good quality (and it sounds like they h
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Very interesting. Did you or do you know anyone who has attended St John's? Any idea if it's particularly successful in terms of students exiting with an impressive understanding of themselves and the world?
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Or, take 4 months out of your life, go somewhere remote with the collection, and spend about 4-5 months reading 6-8 hours a day to complete it. Or, perhaps this could be a business -- host a Harvard Classics Resort where everything is taken
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Funny, yeah that's the one. I switched to his class after I heard one of his presentations in the international building one evening.
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Good points. Storytelling is so important in delivering a message and having people successfully learn and remember it. I would say a key point is to keep in mind what you want the audience to actually remember from the story -- it's easi
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Most other comments are commenting on the interface, which is definitely great and impressive. As for the fonts, they're not smooth for me either.
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Let me know if you disagree, however I think the problem so many people have in this thread (and an increasing number in today's world), and one reason a good number seek and believe in alternative treatments, is because the medical communi
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by aik 15y ago
Yes exactly -- yet it's called "full screen mode". Exactly my point, thanks. :)
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Perhaps there's more to it. One of OSX Lion's main features is "full screen mode". Hilarious when seen on its own, but potentially unique (we'll see).
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I've aced a fair amount of exams in my lifetime, and knowing what I know now about "knowing", learning and understanding, acing a majority of those exams were in fact a TERRIBLE indication of the amount (and quality) of learning that had ta
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Video breakdown: Khan and Kinematics(wired.com)
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Interesting idea. It took me a moment to realize the incentive here (note: I didn't care enough up front to read the text as there's "a lot" of it) -- perhaps the idea of offering something special should be made more visible. Maybe you c
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I've seriously been thinking about starting a site like this for several months. However, I would like it to function as a free site for all, mentor and student, instead of a pay-for-the-mentor site. I'm fairly convinced that there would
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"What restrictions have others placed on you?" Among other things, I have come to the realization that the way that our schools are structured (in the US anyway) promotes this type of thinking you're talking about. There's a reinforcing fee
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Interesting. Just purchased that book. I imagine I will be able to answer some of the below questions after I read it, but as of now I am wondering the following: Recently I have heard that "Direct Instruction" is very effective, but I'm
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Interesting. Would you say that this book argues similar things that John Taylor Gatto's books do (ie. Weapons of Mass Instruction, Dumbing Us Down)?

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