4. Good teachers know the "zone of proximal development": push students enough to learn, but not too much or else they give up.
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5. If you care about adoption you have to understand the onboarding experience as learning. Disrespect the ZPD at your peril.
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6. Every good teacher knows how to teach in successive approximations to the truth, to stay in the ZPD.
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7. That "well, actually…" instinct is not just obnoxious; it's harmful to learners and therefore to adoption.
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8. In fact, ZPD is a Worse-is-Better tactic for pedagogy: better to be 90% right & keep improving than to reach for 100% & lose everyone.
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@littlecalculist@wycats the difficulty is defining the 10% that doesn't matter enough1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ryanflorence it happens naturally as a solution evolves in good faith.@littlecalculist1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@wycats@ryanflorence@littlecalculist not sure I agree. Teaching well is hard. If you have knack for it, it's easy to take for granted.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@polotek Totally fair :) Trying to define the 10% ahead of time basically doesn't work though@ryanflorence@littlecalculist1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@wycats@ryanflorence@littlecalculist I would amend your theory. The signals evolve naturally. Recognizing and applying them is hard.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@polotek Fair enough :) @ryanflorence @littlecalculist
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