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Andy Matuschak on Books and Learning

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Learning Sciences - Is There a Far Transfer?

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When we learn things, we tend to apply them in a context whe we're told exactly what to do. And then the challenge becomes just knowing what kind of problem is it. What we call far transfer is a problem where you are forced to combine skill as things you're learning in a completely new to you environment. It definitionally cannot be a practised beatrils iv proubdly mentioned this before, my favourite course of valuation i ever received wasp. I gotlook of one out of five from a student who said, professor roberts is a terrible professor. He expects us to apply the material to things we've never seen before. Course, i warn people on day

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