Intrigued by this! as someone w/o much background in this area: Is deliberate practice actually in tension with Papert's ideas? Also, I wonder if constructionism helps build the motivational foundation to persist through the hard work of deliberate practice?https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1172519624778403843 …
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When I was a kid, I wasn't disciplined about practicing cello... but I grew to really enjoy it 20 years later (wow I feel old) that enjoyment has driven me to keep it up, and now I'm more into deliberate practice techniques
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Also reminds me of my interest in programming: Ruby on Rails and jQuery got me hooked because I could make cool things. Only later did I learn the fundamentals: SQL, Javascript, etc. Feels like a top-down approach: motivation first, technique second
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Geoffrey Litt Retweeted Geoffrey Litt
This helps me resolve the common debate: "Insisting on fundamentals is gatekeeping!" "No, fundamentals are valuable!" Yes, fundamentals are valuable, but you shouldn't have to learn fundamentals _before doing anything useful_https://twitter.com/geoffreylitt/status/986247725766332417 …
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My own best learning examples have come from precisely the opposite order Play around => get motivated => learn the fundamentals to level up
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This is a great point, thanks for distilling this! It feels very bimodal, "fast and slow", "left brain right brain"... I tend to "grok" things too before actually reading the docs, similar to your jQuery example.
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I think Seymour wanted to give people agency over their learning, to make them hungry for more. For better or worse, he gave few opinions on the day to day practice of education.
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"Good pedagogy is a delicate dance, with instructors sometimes leading, sometimes following, all in the hope that the student will find her own beat so that she can go solo."https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Looming-Gamification-of/233992 …
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