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1/ Let's talk about how note taking can help you accelerate expertise. Yes, I know how that sounds like. No, this isn't hype. There's some solid cognitive science here, and it has FASCINATING things to say about the nature of learning in messy, real world domains.

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Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

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2/ The theory I'm going to talk about is Cognitive Flexibility Theory, originally published by Spiro, Coulson, Feltovich and Anderson in a 1988 paper. The theory has 30 years of ACTUAL system implementations. We're going to talk about those in a sec.

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(PDF) Cognitive Flexibility Theory: Advanced Knowledge Acquisition in Ill-Structured Domains

PDF | On Jan 1, 1988, Rand Spiro and others published Cognitive Flexibility Theory: Advanced Knowledge Acquisition in Ill-Structured Domains | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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This reads like the re-discovery of apprenticeships and situated learning. Medical school also enables "legitimate peripheral participation" vs. classroom instruction. Christopher Alexander in "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" writes about trade-offs in making "rules" explicit.

Cedric Chin

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Wait, your takeaway from this is apprenticeships and situated learning?! ‘Present a collection of 10-20 rich instantiations for each concept; each case is hyperlinked; every case contains multiple concepts’ is NOT an apprenticeship.

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The early systems implementations of this in the Army called it ‘Experience Consolidation Systems’. This is NOT field work, you explore or solve problems in a hyperlinked computer system. How is that situated learning? We may be reading different threads 🙃