But it is not used. Since it’s more than a century old, this is not for lack of time. I agree with beoShaffer that existing education institutions are pretty dysfunctional. (Which is not to say that online education might not be a productive field! But I worry that all the current interest reads like a bubble—people have given up on green energy, so what’s next on the list of liberal shibboleths...)
Spaced repetition is interesting, but I was under the impression that it was most helpful for improved memorization. I’ve always taken the criticism of the education system that it doesn’t do a good job of making the material part of the student as the most important critique.
Is there such a thing as learning without any memorization? And there’s little point in studying how it aids abstraction & conceptual understanding if you can’t even get the schools to use it for learning English or foreign language vocab, for example.
Spaced repetition is very well supported and most studies have been in educational contexts: http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition#literature-review
But it is not used. Since it’s more than a century old, this is not for lack of time. I agree with beoShaffer that existing education institutions are pretty dysfunctional. (Which is not to say that online education might not be a productive field! But I worry that all the current interest reads like a bubble—people have given up on green energy, so what’s next on the list of liberal shibboleths...)
Spaced repetition is interesting, but I was under the impression that it was most helpful for improved memorization. I’ve always taken the criticism of the education system that it doesn’t do a good job of making the material part of the student as the most important critique.
Is there such a thing as learning without any memorization? And there’s little point in studying how it aids abstraction & conceptual understanding if you can’t even get the schools to use it for learning English or foreign language vocab, for example.