Another key point of the work Mel cites is that at the expert stage, knowledge is tacit and experts do things intuitively rather than by conscious thought. This means that for many tasks their performance declines if they think about things too much. It also means that they may struggle if asked to explain what they are doing (e.g., by a novice).
Greg -----Original Message----- From: tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org [mailto:tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of Dave Neary Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 4:03 AM To: Mel Chua Cc: tos@teachingopensource.org Subject: Re: [TOS] blog post on getting students involved in open source Hi, Mel Chua wrote: > See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition -- the > key point the original paper makes is that you literally see the world > differently at different stages of mastery. It's hard to see with eyes > that are not our own. Interesting source! I wasn't aware of this. Know how I can get my hands on the original? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
