Narrative context matters, e.g., Smoking while praying VS Praying while smoking. The former context is on the site where people pray, and the latter context is on the site where people smoke.
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被教室偷走的機會–自由主義下的自主學習–Self-Directed Learning of Liberalism
您可曾聽過:「看不明白的東西,多讀幾次就懂了」。或者,您已親身體驗過這種「不死心,一定要搞懂」,然後,「突然有一天明白」的喜悅?可惜的是,在目前的教育體制下,這個自我挑戰,這個學習成為 Problem Solver 的機會,被教室偷走了!所有的學生都被框在同時間同一地點,一起聽著老師講述相同的內容。更糟糕地,學習者常在課後還要到補習班被繼續餵養知識。其結果,他們沒有時間按自身需求去自我挑戰,無法享受那份靠自己解決問題的成就感。
相對地,在自主學習的系統下,學習者能如影片中提到的「慢慢成為更好的自己」。例如觀看影片素材時,當遇到聽不懂的地方,就把影片拉回去多看幾遍。甚至,今天聽不懂,沒關係,明天再看一遍。這個老師講的關代聽不懂沒關係,再找另一個影片來看,說不定就懂了!本文收錄一些 YouTube 上世界各地分享的自主學習相關影片,以及蒐集來的各種想法……
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Case Study–TOEFL Reading
本文收集筆者喜歡的托福閱讀難題。
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The Language Education of Tomorrow
The role of a teacher has evolved several times these days, including leader, lecturer, instructor, logistician, consultant, host, inspirer, master, and manager. These are all necessary roles at the scene of education from the perspective of Darwinism.
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Behavior Modification via Lubrication 行為潤滑
In the field of Behavior Modification or Motivation, there hasn’t been any studies discussing this “Lubrication” topic as far as I know. The phenomenon, however, is very common in our daily life. Take drink water for example. When the water is available beside the working position, people tend to drink more and thus become healthier (sbd help locate the ref for me). From the perspective of psychology, it is called a cue. But from my point of view, as a fan of Behavioral Economics, I would say it is because the cost reduction of the target behavior lubricates the decision making process inside our brain.
As a professional habit formation researcher, I can tell you both the idea of cue and of the cost reduction theories hold true, since neural scientists have evidenced our brain operates with a parallel system consisting of reflective and conscious network.
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Keep-Up Vicious Circle in the Classroom of Taiwan
Asia Language education in 2020 is still in a mire, all the more so when everything seems to be much more efficient through technology. The major problem is that teachers keep busy lecturing at the blackboard, while students listen altogether to the same things in the classroom. Individuals are treated as a group, rather than as a single person.
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學英語也要 Learning by Doing
「做中學, learning by doing」之父 John Dewey 曾說:”I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.” 既然廣泛閱讀/視聽的教育活動,主要都是在「利用語言來取得娛樂或知識」(也就一種人類真實生活中的活動),那麼我們可以說,廣泛閱讀/視聽其實可以算是一種 learning by doing 的教育方法。
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Deliberate Practice 刻意練習–Notstupid AI Design 我不笨的人工智慧設計原理
「我不笨」(notstupid) 生字複習APP的設計原理,學術上稱為「刻意練習」,也就是所謂的「做中學」。本文將簡要回答學習者們常問的兩個問題: (a) 強化學習效率的原理。(b) 人工智慧的餵字邏輯。
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Internal/External Validity: the Control of Independent, Dependent, and Extraneous Variables in Laboratory or Field Experiments.
Internal Validity (IV): The extent to which we can say that the effect is actually caused by the manipulation. The key point is to take good control of manipulation implementation & Extraneous Variable. Field experiment is inevitably bad for IV but good for External Validity (EV)–the extent to which the effect found can be replicated or generalized to the real world settings.
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