Learning as-you-do-it is more efficient and effective than classrooms or textbook reading.
Could academic subjects remodel themselves on meditation apps, asks?
notes.andymatuschak.org/Guided_meditat
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This is probably easier for heavily procedural subjects, like math and meditation. Note that math instruction is already a lot like this, and doing exercises feels like "sitting down to do math".
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That suggests to me that it's not the app format but the procedural nature of the domain. Sitting down to meditate or to do math is easier, and is straightforward to offer in app form. See also a million popular exercise apps. But how does one just sit down to do history?
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For history Anki + engaging videos + discussion groups should be more than enough in my opinion.
Teaching and learning math, physics etc. is more difficult than teaching or learning history.
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I think history’s incredibly diffiicult to teach and learn—all the more so because the skills are less concretely evaluable. Spent a while working on learning environments for this; was so much harder than math!
Interesting. I need to think about this more, because it is directly against many of my long-held beliefs.
(I should say—it was so much harder than building environments for traditional school math! Many of the same problems obtain for reform-minded math curricula, focused on explanation and creative problem-solving over procedure)
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History is such a difficult case. I’ve struggled with how to “take notes” for history books I enjoyed. One challenge is that it’s very unclear what the goal should be. Maybe some mix of Evergreen insights + SRS facts. Even harder for teaching. Going to read this over the weekend
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