Learning as-you-do-it is more efficient and effective than classrooms or textbook reading.
Could academic subjects remodel themselves on meditation apps, asks?
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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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(I actually spent a bit of time thinking about that question, when doing my MSc thesis on educational games. It looked to me like gamification is easy and effective for math, where you can automatically generate questions and verify the answers.)
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Interesting that you see gamification as easy! Do you have a theory as to why educational games have failed as a field? (or maybe you reject that premise?)
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my humble two cents as user/someone who learned english largely from videogames, is that educational games never took off because they still operate under a sort of classroom mindset and "work" by "making learning fun/interactive" rather than making learning incidental
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Learning is an automatic process that is difficult to prevent when an intelligent agent interacts with an environment. Education and indoctrination are two methods used to prevent learning. twitter.com/SarahTheHaider…
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I agree with the anti-educationalist sentiment, but there’s plenty of empirical evidence that this claim isn’t literally true.
Expert skill acquisition is highly sensitive to practice methodology; in various fields, naive (“automatic”) methods are observed to quickly plateau.