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.
(more…)-
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。
(more…) -
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。
(more…) -
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.
(more…)



