there’s evidence that humans learn this kind of thing well by classifying lots of examples with correction from an expert …
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… with no or little explanation provided. https://youtu.be/FKTxC9pl-WM …
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a “first course” is great to get people on the same page as to the goal, but lots of good/bad examples are also necessary.
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this gets back to your point that one very valuable thing about Higher Ed is the chance to be an apprentice, …
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and also the Vajrayana admonition that you just can’t do it without a teacher.
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Yeah. Unfortunately, this points me in the direction of trying to teach this stuff, about which I have quite mixed feelings.
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there’s a service to be done even in providing examples, I think. The Kathy Sierra talk is worthwhile, esp for only 20 minutes.
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problem being that what is “good” and what is “bad” is contentious, at this level.
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for STEM folks, who you’re trying to reach, what’s needed is examples where “fuzzy” “unscientific” thinking wins really big …
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especially if there’s a pretty obvious sciency approach that gets it wrong every time. (Thinking out loud here.)
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That would be great if we had an example!
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