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e.g. subtitles on movies, following instructions on computer games, googling stuff, reading books with parent (and looking again later without parent). The gen
by chimpinee 14y ago
e.g. subtitles on movies, following instructions on computer games, googling stuff, reading books with parent (and looking again later without parent).
The general case is: pursuing something cool for its own sake is enhanced by learning language and other gateway knowledge i.e. knowledge which aids wider learning. No teaching or curriculum or testing or extrinsic motivation is required. Help is available. I'm not advocating neglect.
And there are the additional benefits of saving vast amounts of time and not damaging creativity.
- gizmo686 14y agoReading seems like one of those areas where being taught is far more efficient than figuring out for ones self, and even being taught is difficult. We could argue about the way in which we teach it, in which case I generally agree that our current model is far to extrinsic. In the particular case of reading, I am not sure how to avoid it, as (with my limited knowledge of neruology) I believe there is a massive advantage to learning the skill early in your brains development, so we would want to learn it before we nessasarily have the reasoning skills to know why we need to spends so much time learning it.