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Owen_Richardson 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: Owen_Richardson 01 September 2011 05:05:03AM 0 points [-]

Thanks for your feedback... and patience. The wikipedia articles (there are two that differ only in the capitalization of one letter!) are confused.

The one with the lowercase "instruction" fluidly mixes up "little-di" and "big-DI".

“Little-di” is merely instruction that is somehow more direct than some other supposed norm. “Big-DI” is not “little-di” in rather the same way that linear algebra is not algebra that has been put in a line.

Do the notes added at the beginning as a replacement for the whole long thing help to start clearing stuff up any?

And does this help?