So I’m just starting on Accelerated Expertise and my god is this a heavy lift.
I’m going to leave these book screenshots here and see if anyone picks up on the bombshell implications.
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- Teaching simplified concepts and then progressively complexifying is bad.
- Recall memory doesn't help with inferential understanding/advanced knowledge acquisition.
- So spaced repetition recall of facts are bad! (You need to promote 'adaptive schema assembly'.)
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- Storehouse model of memory is bad (fact memorisation, practice + immediate feedback — bad)
- Cognitive load theory is true but not useful (experts operate with distractions).
- 'Learning advances (only?) when flawed mental models are replaced, stable when model is refined'
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- 'Advanced learning is promoted by emphasising the interconnectedness of multiple cases and concepts along multiple dimensions, and use of multiple highly organised representations.' -> holy shit.
I might need to rethink what I know about expertise acquisition.
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Word of warning if you want to read this: this was written for the Department of Defence, and is intended for other org psychologists and military training program designers. It assumes you have a background in existing expertise research.
It is not written for the layperson.
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The context (as I understand it) is more “you’ve spent years developing training programs that accelerate expertise acquisition for various military/org/business applications for us, please tell us what you know before the knowledge vanishes with you.”
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I sort of wonder how much they've tested that first proposition. In my own life I know that I, uh, really struggle to pick up concepts where I don't have some kind of North Star to steer by.
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What I *do* think I observe is that step-by-step complexification rarely brings me the full understanding. *With the right North Star*, I'm ready to dive straight into the reference material or whatever at full detail.
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My first reaction is "that can't be right" for a few claims on the list.
Definitely makes me curious, but I'm skeptical of turning upside down the idea of breaking concepts into smaller pieces...
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