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very insightful! adding a rather ancient aspect: most religions have manifestos in book form (eg bible), but they still have to hammer the contents home with readings and discussions every single week during service. clearly, the book form (and service?) don’t work on their own.
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Some truth to this re Bible studies and sermons. Though other aspects are more important. For Christians, generally it’s 1) God coming to you in Word (and Sacrament) 2) you praising God and doing it within 3) a community of believers. Learning probably comes in 4th place.
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I think there may be a more fundamental issue: many readers aren't really interested in becoming competent in a field they're reading about. They may not know what competence is available, what it would mean to have it, or why they should value it. They're just curious.
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You may know that to really understand something, you should do the exercises and make an attempt at memorizing it. But you don't, because this is just a scouting expedition, and it's unclear whether you will come this way again.
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Strongly agree. In fact, this realization was the very reason why we started collecting learning resources across media types & formats. Once we're done tagging those with LRMI tags, exploration and learning effectiveness should see huge improvement.
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Maybe books should embrace repetition. Present many variations of the same idea in many contexts and with many examples, Make sure that idea will resurface periodically in the book. Write it as if there is a chance that whole paragrphs and pages are lost.
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This made me think of how choosing the right data structure for doing something in code is the difference between elegant code and a hacked together mess that still works, but not as well as it could
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