📝🔬 What does it mean to “master” the skill of creatively manipulating understandings in novel situations?
New on our team blog, some working thoughts on the intersection of mastery learning and creative tasks:
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Great stuff! Love the way y’all think about this. The Knowledge Components idea in the Knowledge-Learning-Instruction framework out of CMU (by Ken Koedinger and colleagues) might be helpful way to think about chunks, synthesis, difficulty, and transfer.
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I’m also reminded of the notion of Adaptive Expertise. Happy to chat more and/or connect you to others who’ve been thinking a lot about mastery and transfer from cognitive science perspective!
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Oh very interesting! Let me read a bit in these subjects and get back to you with more cogent thoughts.