From what you wrote in Holistic Learning about the use of genius and innate talent to explain away successful learning, I think we agree that anyone without some relevant disability who is in a stable environment with access to the right resources should be able to do the same, and will after we learn how to teach how to learn. By “unimpressive,” I mean “what one would expect, given what the wide distribution of mental skill levels and effort made by people who complete 4-year university says about its actual difficulty and the probable level of skill and effort of the ‘productivity hacking’ person doing it.” You are comparatively impressive, and a very special snowflake.
Are you buying the textbooks/ finding your own? Just using the video lectures (and internet for removed sections) seems unbearably slow, and you aren’t in nearly as much control over the flow of information.
I imagine some researchers will study learners’ processes for learning in terms of cognitive algorithms, mental habits, preferred thinking styles, or whatever it turns out to be that makes some people learn better and faster than others, and then experiment with ways to change the process individuals use to learn. And they’ll teach us how to teach how to learn.
Are you buying the textbooks/ finding your own? Just using the video lectures (and internet for removed sections) seems unbearably slow, and you aren’t in nearly as much control over the flow of information.
When I was watching Khan Academy’s lectures, I got good results from VLC player’s time dilation; it speeds up the video and adjusts the audio’s pitch to compensate, so you can adjust the pacing. I experimentally determined 1.8x to be the right speed for me, though that will depend on you, and on whose lecture you’re watching, and some of the time saved should probably go into pausing the video strategically to digest things.
Yes—for my pilot course I went around 1.5-2x, strategically speeding up and slowing down. Lectures are way more efficient when you can fast-forward and rewind.
From what you wrote in Holistic Learning about the use of genius and innate talent to explain away successful learning, I think we agree that anyone without some relevant disability who is in a stable environment with access to the right resources should be able to do the same, and will after we learn how to teach how to learn. By “unimpressive,” I mean “what one would expect, given what the wide distribution of mental skill levels and effort made by people who complete 4-year university says about its actual difficulty and the probable level of skill and effort of the ‘productivity hacking’ person doing it.” You are comparatively impressive, and a very special snowflake.
Are you buying the textbooks/ finding your own? Just using the video lectures (and internet for removed sections) seems unbearably slow, and you aren’t in nearly as much control over the flow of information.
Yes. After that.
Well, after that and that’s successful implementation on a large scale.
What I mean is, who will teach us how to learn how to teach how to learn?
I imagine some researchers will study learners’ processes for learning in terms of cognitive algorithms, mental habits, preferred thinking styles, or whatever it turns out to be that makes some people learn better and faster than others, and then experiment with ways to change the process individuals use to learn. And they’ll teach us how to teach how to learn.
You are a superb straight man.
It helps that I never get the jokes.
When I was watching Khan Academy’s lectures, I got good results from VLC player’s time dilation; it speeds up the video and adjusts the audio’s pitch to compensate, so you can adjust the pacing. I experimentally determined 1.8x to be the right speed for me, though that will depend on you, and on whose lecture you’re watching, and some of the time saved should probably go into pausing the video strategically to digest things.
Yes—for my pilot course I went around 1.5-2x, strategically speeding up and slowing down. Lectures are way more efficient when you can fast-forward and rewind.