Learning the letter “b”, distinguishing from several already-known letters. Only two examples (“b” in two fonts) are given before the test examples, because the concept has a narrow range; no negative examples.
I think it would be good to include also non-examples of “d”, “p” and “q”.
Generally, I think that any explanation should include non-examples, to show the boundaries of the concept. Otherwise you did not disprove the hypothesis that “anything is a valid example”.
My intuition about DI is that you give a few examples and non-examples such that an Occam’s razor will lead student to the correct explanation. Or in other words, “faultless communication” is one where the correct interpretation of teacher’s words has lower (preferably: much lower) Kolmogorov complexity than any incorrect interpretation.
One of the rules for nouns is that the negative examples you use (in the whole sequence, including testing) are ones the learner already knows. In this case, I think that, because there is such a narrow range of variation in letters, they felt like the already-known “d”, “p”, and “q” could be saved for the test examples.
I personally think it wouldn’t hurt to mention them before the testing examples, too, and this seems like something open to interpretation.
I think it would be good to include also non-examples of “d”, “p” and “q”.
Generally, I think that any explanation should include non-examples, to show the boundaries of the concept. Otherwise you did not disprove the hypothesis that “anything is a valid example”.
My intuition about DI is that you give a few examples and non-examples such that an Occam’s razor will lead student to the correct explanation. Or in other words, “faultless communication” is one where the correct interpretation of teacher’s words has lower (preferably: much lower) Kolmogorov complexity than any incorrect interpretation.
One of the rules for nouns is that the negative examples you use (in the whole sequence, including testing) are ones the learner already knows. In this case, I think that, because there is such a narrow range of variation in letters, they felt like the already-known “d”, “p”, and “q” could be saved for the test examples.
I personally think it wouldn’t hurt to mention them before the testing examples, too, and this seems like something open to interpretation.