Class Notes 6-22-10

Design - Goal oriented choices made under constraint
   
Learning takes place when the learner sends out probes into the environment, receives feedback and recognizes patterns.


Help Toward a new ethics….

Physics envy - aspirations to be scientific

Apologetics - look up - for people who believe or want to believe

IDT - is an ethical profession - we are here to help people learn

We are all a part of a field because we are all trying to help people

"mean (average)  time to help"  - this is the right metric for our success


Bloom

Conventional (1 to 35) vs tutoring (1 to 1)

The average student who is tutored scores better than 98% of the average student taught in a conventional  way

We are failing in helping our students achieve their true potential

New version
    Creating
    Evaluating
    Analysing
    Applying
    Understanding
    Remembering

-Remembering is underrated
   

-Music theory - rules of Bach - but no new Bach - there is an art and a science
We need the creativity and the rules combined in order to create the masterpiece

-We need to hold the center position of art and science

-Read Aeros impossibility theory - if more than one person get together and try to follow a set of rational decision making rules it is impossible to do… there has to be some compromise in order to make things happen

-The effectiveness of an instructional material is a combination of the instructional material and the learner