Re:Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
by fn-mote on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:36PM
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> I wonder what the research actually says about this sort of homework vs your more standard variety.
I have a vivid memory of one of the question on a final being basically “sketch the outline of this important thing we studied”. I couldn’t do it. I took the class but didn’t see the forest for the trees.
Later I met people who talked about things with each other, including the big picture. That’s the community I was missing when I took the class solo.
In retrospect, I could have gotten something more out of those problems that I thought were so hard.
I have a vivid memory of one of the question on a final being basically “sketch the outline of this important thing we studied”. I couldn’t do it. I took the class but didn’t see the forest for the trees.
Later I met people who talked about things with each other, including the big picture. That’s the community I was missing when I took the class solo.
In retrospect, I could have gotten something more out of those problems that I thought were so hard.