I’ve had a period of being somewhat obsessed with improving learning, mostly in the context of improving the performance of high-achieving math & CS students. Some random thoughts:
In a degree context, it might be important to identify the small number of important ideas/skills to learn that could best help with the rest of the degree and further on in life.
Generally speaking, I’m not sure how important is learning quality during a degree (as opposed to high grades) when considering one’s potential impact on the world. I have some worry that in practice, all one needs is to get through the door to a good career that they’d be motivated to engage in and learn on the job whatever they lacked from school.
This reminds me a bit of this podcast, delivered by a psychologist interested in helping us to be more effective altruists.
I’ve had a period of being somewhat obsessed with improving learning, mostly in the context of improving the performance of high-achieving math & CS students. Some random thoughts:
I loved this website.
I’m not sure that good memorization techniques are the most important learning tool for many (most?) fields.
Also, it’s likely that these aren’t the major bottleneck for most people. I expect motivation and focus to be higher on the list.
There’s something interesting going on regarding Bloom’s 2-sigma problem.
In a degree context, it might be important to identify the small number of important ideas/skills to learn that could best help with the rest of the degree and further on in life.
Generally speaking, I’m not sure how important is learning quality during a degree (as opposed to high grades) when considering one’s potential impact on the world. I have some worry that in practice, all one needs is to get through the door to a good career that they’d be motivated to engage in and learn on the job whatever they lacked from school.
This reminds me a bit of this podcast, delivered by a psychologist interested in helping us to be more effective altruists.