One thing I realized I’ve improved at recently is being able to tell the difference between actually understanding something & merely thinking that I’ve understood something. Among other things, I feel a sort of “click” with the former.
On debugging one's own understanding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18105487 … Interesting to think about how people learn to take responsibility (or not) for this themselves. Related to self-models of different degrees of understanding.pic.twitter.com/R6ikAmNIUq
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I also find myself subvocally explaining things to an inquisitive imaginary interlocutor who keeps asking me “why” type questions. When I can keep doing this then I’m satisfied I’ve understood something.
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@peergrade here. We discussed precisely this HN post the other day exactly because Bloom's "Two Sigma" paper is the one of the most interesting (if not _the_ most interesting) papers on learning!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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There's probably a reason that Oxford (and Cambridge?) have those intensive nearly-one-on-one tutorial sessions as part of their regular courses of study.
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What software tool did you use to cut the webpage as image ?
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