one more thing...not a question but I just want to let you know that I really appreciate your writing and I've gained a lot of valuable insight from it. I've read every post on your notebook since early May and many of the posts before that too. I hope things begin to look up for you as I look forward to reading your writing every day, but don't put unnecessary pressure on yourself to write one days when it takes too much out of you. thank you for all of your ideas !
Relating to a recent notebook post, https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-06-22-19:57.html, how do you think this interacts with cases where there's a community of experts that are connected to a community of non-experts but neither is directly reliant on the other? For instance, a lot of software isn't used by non-developers, but I wouldn't expect that attitude to necessarily change for someone working on that type of software.
In the specific example, I do get the feeling that the behaviour is better on net? e.g. software developers actually document their APIs much better than they document their end user software. There's still some of the underlying negative attitude around usability and such, but I wonder if that can be productively framed as just changing the question of what sort of expertise counts? e.g. you might be an expert developer who is using, I don't know, Kubernetes, but if you are not a Kubernetes expert you might still be treated as lower status by people who are.
I read and enjoyed "How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching" but I must admit I don't seem to have retained much from it. Just flicking through it again, it seems very sensible and I should probably engage with it more - my guess is it would be more useful while actively teaching so you could put it into practice, while I was more interested in adapting it to self study.
I also really like "Teaching What You Don't Know", and when I read it a decade ago really rated "What the best college teachers do" but don't know if I'd rate the latter as highly on revisit (I might well do! It's just old knowledge and my opinions have evolved since then)
one more thing...not a question but I just want to let you know that I really appreciate your writing and I've gained a lot of valuable insight from it. I've read every post on your notebook since early May and many of the posts before that too. I hope things begin to look up for you as I look forward to reading your writing every day, but don't put unnecessary pressure on yourself to write one days when it takes too much out of you. thank you for all of your ideas !
Relating to a recent notebook post, https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-06-22-19:57.html, how do you think this interacts with cases where there's a community of experts that are connected to a community of non-experts but neither is directly reliant on the other? For instance, a lot of software isn't used by non-developers, but I wouldn't expect that attitude to necessarily change for someone working on that type of software.
Hmm. Good question.
In the specific example, I do get the feeling that the behaviour is better on net? e.g. software developers actually document their APIs much better than they document their end user software. There's still some of the underlying negative attitude around usability and such, but I wonder if that can be productively framed as just changing the question of what sort of expertise counts? e.g. you might be an expert developer who is using, I don't know, Kubernetes, but if you are not a Kubernetes expert you might still be treated as lower status by people who are.
do you have any book recs on education ? im mostly interested in primary/secondary but higher ed works too.
I read and enjoyed "How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching" but I must admit I don't seem to have retained much from it. Just flicking through it again, it seems very sensible and I should probably engage with it more - my guess is it would be more useful while actively teaching so you could put it into practice, while I was more interested in adapting it to self study.
I also really like "Teaching What You Don't Know", and when I read it a decade ago really rated "What the best college teachers do" but don't know if I'd rate the latter as highly on revisit (I might well do! It's just old knowledge and my opinions have evolved since then)