This is a fascinating essay on education (that happens to be a tweet)

Why do schools keep chasing every new educational trend when decades of proven research already show us what works? 🧵⬇️

It’s shocking how much we know about how learning happens, all the way down to the mechanics of what’s going on in the brain.

And it’s not just how learning happens, but also, what we can do to improve learning.

There are plenty of learning-enhancing practice strategies that…

Justin Skycak

This is a fascinating essay on education (that happens to be a tweet)

https://x.com/justinskycak/status/1858012912557633800

Expertise reversal effect is by far the biggest challenge in acquiring new skills. By the time you are ready to help others, you’ve usually forgotten the newbie struggles that represent the largest chasm. In highschool I had an idea of a keyboard that shows the text on an embedded lcd screen, so you don’t need to move your eyes from the keyboard as you search for letters. Obviously the moment you learn to type, this is totally unnecessary and there are much better techniques to do this, but it demonstrates how your mind changes with knowledge. Teaching kids to shoot a basketball is similar as they don’t have the strength needed for proper technique and a coach needs to be both very specialized and ready to aim for the long term success (loosing games) for optimal development. This is not changing anytime soon on scale, but a beautiful life hack for those with time and means. Open University is working on AI tutors that use blockchain based knowledge graphs (Origin Trail) and that might be the way.