Related: if you haven’t spent time with @michael_nielsen’s and @andy_matuschak’s http://quantum.country , you really should.
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Authors like me have little telemetry on how effective their words are at conveying ideas. They know sales and little else that isn't anecdotal. That will change as the scientific method is applied to writing done in a world driven by SaaS. To change writing, create telemetry.
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That's already been one interesting consequence of https://quantum.country : we can see exactly which concepts people are struggling to retain. Sometimes it's just that the concept is complex (maybe we need to break it down more); other times it points to a failure on our part!
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"mediums can be designed, not just inherited" is excellent. Podcasts lean into active lifestyle of working professionals - commute, work, gym, etc Learn on the go
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right track. a great learning experience had prose, audio, video, simulations, discussion, self-assessment all tied to learning objectives and overlap across media types. learners self-select what works and the machine drives directed remediation. learner must maintain control
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Very interesting and happy to see the science, physics, and references to Phil Anderson and emergence (
@michael_nielsen ) but what feels missing is storytelling. So many nonfiction narratives lecture on ideas. But people dont care deeply about ideas. /1 -
They care deeply about people. And stories about those people - stories of conflict and resolution and learning and growth. That's why I turn pages. That's why movies mesmerize. Academic-style writing (speaking as a former academic) misses that. /2
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A University Math teacher in Russia wrote a dissertation on this. The result of her research is a series of text books for Linear Algebra and Calculus. One of techniques that she used is to make reader choose to either underline or cross strike`?not?`s in proofs...
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Another one is that when proofs refer to other theorems and lemmas, they list multiple options and you are supposed to choose which one is actually used here. There were many others. She was one of the best teachers I've met: Petrova Vera Timofeevna
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