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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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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I've yet to reached the chapters where they talked about putting this theory to practice, but the context of the book is that it is a generalised report prepared for the Department of Defence, after many years of applying it in military training programs.
That said, some nuance re: that first assertion on incremental complexification …
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