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Fronken comments on How to Teach Students to Not Guess the Teacher’s Password? - Less Wrong Discussion

24 Post author: Petruchio 04 January 2013 03:18PM

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Comment author: Fronken 01 February 2013 10:52:14AM 0 points [-]

Most third graders are probably still in the process of developing the foundational skills that they'll eventually need in order to effectively learn complex topics without guessing the teacher's password.

But then they don't, so we need to try another method, yes?

Comment author: Desrtopa 01 February 2013 01:55:08PM 0 points [-]

We need to do something differently, but we need to make the right changes at the right places. If you want kids to better understand rationality when they grow up, you don't want to start by teaching them things like the content of the Sequences, you start with something like "what did you see?"