📣 New essay distilling one strand of some ongoing work✨
I argue that books lack a functioning model of how people learn—instead, they're (accidentally, invisibly) built around a model that's plainly false. Plus some early models for what to do about it.
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Any thoughts on how to make the reader more involved in creating the Anki cards for your interactive books? AFAIK that's the part of Anki that makes it as effective as it is- whereas in your examples you're handpicking the cards for the reader (^ small, ^ connected, X meaningful)
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Yes, I think it’s possible to create an environment which scaffolds that skill through expert modeling, sentence starters, social comparison, etc. Would be a fun design project, but not top of my list this moment.
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Do you worry that without it the Anki-like system isn’t as effective?
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Sort of. Efficacy is multivalent. Empirically, Quantum Country students’ retention does indeed increase over time. But yes, that’s only part of the story. Lots of work to do here.