orthogonal's Journal: Notes on Multi-Level-/Distributed/Bacterial Learning

Here's a dummy entry for anyone wanting to comment on

• My post on teaching via Slashdot or
• on Multi-Level-/Distributed/Bacterial Learning or
• my very incomplete post on free texts and tutotials

I'll add more ideas here if interest is shown any of these subjects.

Teaching skills will improve

[grepMeister]

this is the second time I have encountered this idea tonight. I don't believe in synchronicity, but I do believe I saw an episode of the (new) outer limits once in which a kid discovers cold fusion and They try to hold it back and it's too late -- other people are discovering it independently all over the world. because the Time Is Right. (I won't try to remember what the details were of what the other person mentioned the idea tonight, but it was a gpl-like (okay, far beyond the gpl) situation where the pe

The real benefit

[tyrecius]

Perhaps the greatest benefit to more widespread teaching wouldn't necessarily come directly from the teaching. Rather, it would help most by removing the mystique of the classroom.

Most people who go through the public school grill seem to come out thinking that teaching (and learning) are things that are only done within a particular context (lecture with chalkboard). They think that when they graduate, the learning part of their life will be over. If there were some way to overcome this meme, that would p

Related Note

[tyrecius]

Actually, on a related note, a while ago I had kind of a nifty (if perhaps not original) idea for textbooks that might be appropriate in the context of a 'Slashdot Tells' type of section.

The idea came from the year or so that I spent tutoring other people in the nuances of C++. I noticed that in order to teach well, I had to develop a repertoire of little explanations for each concept. And different explanations would make sense to different people.

A good example of this is has to do with explaining point

mmorpg

[mandalayx]

I liked the comment on the mmorpg currency thread.

Re:mmorpg

[orthogonal]

Thank you, thank you.