On 7/7/07, Jeff Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Taken for what its worth as an outsider to the educational system, I've never > seen much focus on teaching people "*how* to learn" an arbitrary topic. It so > often seems to be trickery (not in a malicious sense) and indirection, to > reach that ah-ha moment.
This is what I like about the O'Reilly 'Head First' series, which pays a lot of conscious attention to "metacognition". http://safari.oreilly.com/0596008678/hfobjects-preface-2-sect-4?imagepage=xxv Some of the pedagogical principles (spelled out in each book): Make it visual (words within or near graphics) Conversational and personalized style (what math books often avoid -- too proud) Keep it weird (unusual, surprising) Related: http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2005/01/brainstorming-about-pedagogy.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2003-October/003204.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2007-February/007740.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03821.html Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
