Difference between revisions of "Comparison of pedagogical scenes"
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| − | | Generic pedagogy, say "good" math books like Tao, Axler, Spivak || Text || Yes (but it's very difficult work!) | + | | Generic pedagogy, say "good" math books like Tao, Axler, Spivak || Text || Yes || Yes (but it's very difficult work!) || Explanation || No || same old |
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| Tools for thought || The point is to create new mediums! || Yes? || Yes? || Creating/doing || Yes || Totally new stuff! | | Tools for thought || The point is to create new mediums! || Yes? || Yes? || Creating/doing || Yes || Totally new stuff! | ||
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| Name | Medium | Aiming to be comprehensive?[note 1] | Gets to deep/hard stuff, and forces people to think?[note 2] | Focus on explanation vs creating/doing? | Focus on analyzing explanations?[note 3] | Totally new stuff, or just "do more of the same, but faster and with more polish"? |
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| Generic pedagogy, say "good" math books like Tao, Axler, Spivak | Text | Yes | Yes (but it's very difficult work!) | Explanation | No | same old |
| Tools for thought | The point is to create new mediums! | Yes? | Yes? | Creating/doing | Yes | Totally new stuff! |
| Research distillation[1] | Mostly text, with some interactive widgets | No | Kinda (aspirational, but most online essays are still not so deep) | Explanation | No, or at least not in public | faster/more polish |
| Explorable explanations | Interactive widgets | Not | Not really | Explanation | No | mix of both |
| 3Blue1Brown | Non-interactive video with visualizations | No | No | Explanation | No | mix of both |
| Khan Academy | Tutor-like videos and text | Explanation | Yes, but it only targets "easy" topics | Kinda, but it only targets "easy" topics | No | just cover all the high school topics |
| Spaced repetition and "learning how to learn" | Flashcards, notes | Yes | Yes (but you do all the work!) | Creating/doing | Yes | Yes; people talk about how to write better prompts and come up with new learning techniques |
| Asynchronous Discord severs | Chatroom | Kinda (not intended to be a standalone resource, but a good server will cover all the chapters and be able to help at any stage of learning) | Yes (people who are asking their questions are actually asking about the stuff they are struggling with) | Explanation | No | The concept itself is new (as described in my LW post) but once it's been created, there is no drive to make it even better; instead, the drive has been to expand to more and more textbooks/subfields of math |
| Explanation science | Mostly text? | Yes (aspirational) | Yes | Explanation | Yes | Totally new stuff! |
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- ↑ Is the material comprehensive, and can it be used as a standalone resource? Or is it more of an auxiliary thing to make the topic more entertaining?
- ↑ Does the thing have exercises that really deepen understanding? Does it take desirable difficulties into account?
- ↑ Does the field or scene see the analysis of explanations as itself a topic of the work? Or is it more just a thing that happens outside of the public view? Is a discussion of a new technique to explain things seen as a contribution to the scene? Is the scene open to "meta" things?
