New essay distilling one strand of some ongoing work
I argue that books lack a functioning model of how people learn—instead, they're (accidentally, invisibly) built around a model that's plainly false. Plus some early models for what to do about it.https://andymatuschak.org/books/
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“A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over.” — Joe Hill, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joe_Hill Maybe authors and professors should sing their books and lectures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYW50F42ss8 … IIRC, @cosmicpinot used to interleave music in his talks on cosmology.
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Excellent! Let’s do more! Let’s all sing the preamble of the US Constitution!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHp7sMqPL0g …
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And I can still sing school house rock to this day - The preamble is beautiful in its language and simplicity
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Maybe I should do this when we have staff meetings
@ourANU - I could commission a song embodying our strategic plan - 1 more reply
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