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prase comments on Scientifically optimizing education: Hard problem, or solved problem? Introducing the Theory of Direct Instruction - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: Owen_Richardson 31 August 2011 05:28AM

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Comment author: prase 31 August 2011 06:27:31PM 3 points [-]

That explains DI's origins, but doesn't say anything about how it looks like and how it is different from other approaches. (Why it is called Direct Instruction, after all?)

Comment author: Vaniver 31 August 2011 07:46:22PM 4 points [-]

Right- that's because I don't know anything about what it looks like and how it's different from other approaches. (I haven't dug any deeper than this article and wikipedia).