Young children would rather explore than get rewards

Re:Young children would rather explore than get rewards by watwut on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:46AM (#24141556)

So now, you are blaming another kid for failure to be perfect tutor where adult educated teacher failed too. And that good kid is supposed to study out tutoring methods from materials targeted at adults. Which is definitely not fun free exploration for that good kid.

Which is why literally this whole setup where you have good students tutoring weak ones is a trap and punishment for the good one.

Expecting well behaved kid to be that emphatetic mind reading tutor is waaay beyond age appropriate expectations and abilities of typical kid.

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Re:Young children would rather explore than get rewards by kqr on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:49AM (#24142339)

I think you'll find better discussions if you choose to attack the steel man version of someone's argument, rather than the straw man.

Nowhere did I state I expected any expert tutors from children. I merely said that something, anything at all, is better than nothing. It might not even be better in all cases, but on average, the evidence tells us it is.

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Re:Young children would rather explore than get rewards by watwut on Thursday August 13, 2020 @09:28AM (#24143097)

Literally in the comment I responded to, you expect student tutor to make the subject interesting. This is your description of what you expect: To fiendishly ask questions that are just out of reach of the students ability, or will reveal some tiny flaw in the students understanding. This type of thing engages everyone when done well.

Plus, this is your attitude toward kid tutoring another kid: as a tutor, you have exactly two jobs: Make the student interested. Improve the student's skills. And you have this expectation placed on a kid.

> I merely said that something, anything at all, is better than nothing.

That something is to put responsibility on a kid and then blame a kid for not tutoring well enough it it fails. And I am telling you that it is unfair to punish the good kid by doing this. Because this plan is not caring about the "good" kid at at all.

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