“the average student tutored one-to-one using mastery learning techniques performed two standard deviations better than students educated in a classroom environment” as documented by Bloom in 01984. #education
on 02026-04-09will #neural-networks #AI revolutionize #golf #education? #toread
on 02025-09-05#Deutsche-Welle explains how most men in #Thailand become monks for a while. #Theravada #Buddhism #education #schooling #religion
on 02024-11-27in #Thailand nearly all men become monks in wats for a while in their youth, a quarter of a million at any given time. I’m curious how old this tradition is. #Theravada #Buddhism #education #schooling #religion
on 02024-11-27pg on #education and hackable tests and learning the long lesson
on 02024-08-18General knowledge norms: #paper about what trivia college students know, or don’t (astounding degrees of ignorance on a survey of general knowledge questions; less than half of #USA college students knew the capital of Iraq, which was currently full of US troops) #education
on 02024-05-23St. John's College's "Great Books" curriculum. #education
on 02023-03-09#PDF #paper on the gendered experience of the Socratic method in #USA law school #education; basically the author supports it
on 02018-09-24how to learn math #education
on 02017-05-19programming #education should teach #debugging; the circuit debugging story #formina
on 02017-04-26#PDF #paper reporting three experiments on #spaced-practice in a classroom environment. #education #psychology #toread
on 02017-03-15The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher #education
on 02017-03-11popularized #education #psychology recommendations: #spaced-practice, interleaved practice, and varied practice.
on 02017-03-11#education #psychologybased on a Bjork interview
on 02017-03-11short #pdf #paperon #spaced-practice #education #psychology
on 02017-03-11a 2014 #ebook #chapter #pdf on #spaced-practice #toread #education #psychology
on 02017-03-11a 2012 #review #paper #pdf on #spaced-practice #toread #education #psychology
on 02017-03-11#education #psychology #interview on “retrieval practice”
on 02017-03-11#education #psychology #paper on (independently) #spaced-practice and overlearning of math
on 02017-03-11#pdf on empirical information about #education #psychology success factors: content knowledge, quality of instruction, classroom climate (constantly demanding more), etc. Seems terribly preliminary to me for the grandiose title.
on 02017-03-11#spaced-practice in math #education, shuffled formats, etc. #desirable-difficulties #psychology
on 02017-03-11#psychology of #education: Bjork’s "desirable difficulties" (although this includes the debunked unreadable-font experiment, I guess in 2011 it was still “in press”)
on 02017-03-11a comment on #education and #spaced-practice
on 02017-01-1455-page #PDF #paper on #education #psychology evaluating ten learning techniques, half of which are widely used but don’t work. #Spaced-practice is one of the two that works very well, the other being “practice testing”. By Dunlosky et al.
on 02017-01-03position of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics on "procedural fluency". #education #psychology
on 02017-01-03#pdf whitepaper promoting some company’s vaguely described wares that claims that #education #psychology shows that “productive struggle” is needed to achieve “deep conceptual understanding and procedural fluency”.
on 02017-01-03#pdf by Learning Pool’s Donald Clark about #education #psychology and in particular #spaced-practice. Fairly illiterate, but mentions some interesting points.
on 02017-01-03CMU’s #mechanical engineering curriculum; there are only 21 courses! “Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering”, calculus (1, 2, 3D), differential equations, numerical methods, physics (1 “for engineering students” and 2), thermodynamics I, statics, dynamics, fluid mechanics (a very basic introduction), heat transfer, stress analysis, thermal fluids, dynamic systems & controls, mechanical systems experimentation, intro to CAD, machine shop, design (1 and 2). Their four-year program in their undergraduate catalog isn’t exactly the same (it omits physics 2 and includes “Interpretation and Argument” and some bullshit courses like “experiential learning”), but close. #education
on 02016-11-24Geoffrey Challen talks about how he didn’t get tenure at Buffalo. “I have no interest in fighting this decision. To me, it sends a strong signal about what kind of department this is, and it’s not a place that I want to continue to work. … I’m angry with my colleagues. I trusted that they would be able to put aside historical personal grievances and act in the best interest of the department. I was wrong.” #education
on 02016-10-23syllabus for Geoffrey Challen’s #flipped-classroom “how the internet works” course. “Classroom time is reused for participation-graded group activities that reinforce that week’s material (Monday), for Q&A based on questions about the video content added and voted on by students online (Wednesday), and to allow students to complete graded weekly homework assignments (Friday recitation).” #education
on 02016-10-23textbook recommendations from 2011 to 2015 from lesswrong, with justifications, covering philosophy, cogsci, logic, economics, representation theory (?), various aspects of math (probability and statistics, calculus, abstract algebra, partial and ordinary differential equations, numerical methods, linear algebra, elliptic curves, commutative algebra), various aspects of physics (quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, electrodynamics, topology, special relativity), music theory, business, machine learning, algorithms, systems theory, self-help (!), linguistics, meta-ethics, decision-making, neuroscience, WWII, improv theater, criminal justice/criminology, animal behavior, and organic chemistry. #education
on 02016-10-14#physics #education recommendations for people who aren’t in school
on 02016-10-12Gowers on #math #education
on 02016-10-07article about expertise and giftedness and #education and whatnot
on 02016-10-02#education #psychology suggests that kids learn best by trying to imitate adults doing things, because if the adult is showing them things, they imitate them more exactly instead of understanding what’s going on
on 02016-08-01List of "active learning" #education techniques
on 02016-06-30#Omidyar bought #Liberia’s #education system under the name Bridge Academies #colonialism
on 02016-04-22how Neil Fraser did some computer science #education in #Vietnam, developing a new DHTML version of Scratch localized in Vietnamese.
on 02016-04-19on #electronics #education by way of learning to use diodes to design a circuit.
on 02016-04-19#pdf on #literacy in the US, which is pretty bad. #education
on 02015-12-04on #trigger-warnings and higher #education
on 02015-10-30Books to read to get an #education.
on 02015-08-13HN commentary on “The Invented #History of ‘The Factory Model of #Education’”, taking issue with Salman Khan.
on 02015-08-10Discussion of “Teach, Don’t Tell” #education
on 02015-08-05How to write good tutorials. #education
on 02015-08-05“If the reader is to grasp what the writer means, the writer must understand what the reader needs” #education #science #academia
on 02015-08-05how to practice and learn stuff, with touch-typing as an example #toread #education
on 02015-08-05Writing software documentation is teaching #education
on 02015-08-05