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Why Books Donʼt Work | Andy Matuschak
If retrieval practice—trying to recall facts and concepts from memory—is so much better for learning, why don’t students realize
Scott Young • Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
TRANSFER: EDUCATION’S DIRTY SECRET
Scott H. Young • Ultralearning
we found that students exposed to smartboards and digital content actually fared worse in mathematics and writing compared to their peers in classrooms without digital tools.
The reasons were sobering. Teachers had not been adequately trained in using these technologies. Mathematics, which requires cognitive scaffolding and immediate feedback, suffe... See more
The reasons were sobering. Teachers had not been adequately trained in using these technologies. Mathematics, which requires cognitive scaffolding and immediate feedback, suffe... See more
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Before video became available at scale, tacit knowledge had to be transmitted in person, so that the learner could closely observe the knowledge in action and learn in real time — skilled metalworking, for example, is impossible to teach from a textbook. Because of this intensely local nature, it presents a uniquely strong succession problem: if a ... See more
Samo Burja • The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer
in undergraduate STEM courses: traditional lecturing, where students remain passive while the teacher preaches for fifty minutes, is inefficient.