- Jul 2016
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lincs.ed.gov lincs.ed.gov
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It has also been criticized as hyper-rational, ignoring feelings, relation-ships
How is that a criticism? Stripping away feelings, relationships, and cultural bias is EXACTLY what you want in order to achieve pure understanding. MAET16
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mmediate use
It seems that this is one of the key differences between child and adult learning. Adults have more pressures on their time and cognitive resources, and so demand that their learning be more focused, pragmatic, efficient, and immediate. MAET16
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Draws on his/her accumulated reservoir of life experiences to aid learning
I like this - there is more to connect new knowledge to. MAET16
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There is no single theory of learning that can be ap-plied to all adults
How is this different from children?
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citeseerx.ist.psu.edu citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
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Creative people use Abstracting in order to concen-trate on one feature of a thing or process, in order to boil it down to basics and grasp its essence.
This is directly out of "How People Learn." Boiling down a concept to it's essence allows more streamlined and efficient knowledge recall - it's what experts do. Helping students learn how to do this can raise the quality of their thinking.
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- Jun 2016
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nap.nationalacademies.org nap.nationalacademies.org
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The fact that experts’ knowledge is organized around important ideas or concepts suggests that curricula should also be organized in ways that lead to conceptual understanding. Many approaches to curriculum design make it difficult for students to organize knowledge meaningfully. Often there is only superficial coverage of facts before moving on to the next topic; there is little time to develop important, organizing ideas.
Seems like they're saying that "depth is better than coverage." I completely agree with, as adequate depth can provide students with an opportunity to develop those structural frameworks of thinking. Even if you cover much less in a class, students can use these frameworks to more efficiently acquire knowledge in the future.
A great way of describing the merits of this approach would be to use music as an example. I am a musician, but I don't know how to play every instrument - I used only piano to develop a deep understanding of music. Even though I've never touched a trumpet, I could use my expertise to learn how to play one much faster than a non-musician.
I would think that if I had spent the last 10 years learning 50 instruments, but only spending a few months on each, then I would be less prepared to learn how to play a new one than I am now.
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An important characteristic exhibited by the history expert involves what is known as “metacognition” —the ability to monitor one’s current level of understanding and decide when it is not adequate.
I love this. Once you reach a certain level of expertise, you're more likely to accurately determine the limits of your own knowledge. It reminds me a lot of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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