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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
Idle thought: if you’re not good at teaching and you’re too busy/lazy to get good at it, an easy hack around this is to just demonstrate the skill you want to teach, live, with running commentary. (Pausing to answer questions, of course). Osmosis/mimicry is underrated.
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Jurvis Tan
@jurvistan
Replying to @bkegley
💯 I read @ejames_c piece on using online video to acquire tacit knowledge (commoncog.com/blog/youtube-l) and tried learning poetry critique with great success. I stumbled upon your stream ytd and found that it works for programming too! Teaching is hard, and mimicry is underrated
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
Of course, if you do this and get all your students to do this to their students, you eventually end up with the Japanese pedagogical approach to Judo, which is roughly: FIGHT A LOT, EVERY DAY, FOR MANY YEARS, UNTIL YOU STOP GETTING THROWN BY OTHERS. So, obvious limits.
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