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Re:NYC Scrapping Gifted and Talented Program Is a Triumph of... by gardenfelder on Friday October 08, 2021 @08:37PM (#28805886)
I had a conversation several years back in Silicon Valley with some smart people about "epistemologies" of the classroom. In general, the epistemology there is called "Just in case" where you are hammered with "facts" and tested on them just in case you might need them. I brought up "Just in time", and got a different response: "Just for me".
Re:NYC Scrapping Gifted and Talented Program Is a Triumph of... by ivan_ah on Saturday October 09, 2021 @03:57AM (#28807901)
> "Just in case"

Nice, I had not heard this term before. It's a very apt description of the current system of un-motivated learning.

> "Just in time",

This has a lot of potential in conjunction with project-based learning (PBL). Instead of "pushing" knowledge down into student's heads, we could let them "pull" the knowledge they need, when they need it (e.g. need to learn exponential function to complete some calculations in a personal project).

> "Just for me"

Is this referring to personalized lesson plans? If every kid has a private tutor it would be nice (two-sigma effect), but if anyone is hoping for ML solutions for education, then hey will wait for a long time. Education and learning is very nuanced and complicated, so we'll need A LOT of training data to make recommender systems and automated learning pathways work anywhere close to what a trained teacher/mentor can do.