Month: August 2020

Twitter thread about Social science methods

I think contribution from social science is mostly incremental. Cross pollination of methods from pure sciences formed the foundation for many methodological development. Here is a thread. https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1300125741384785920?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1300129924221526016?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1300131087373316096?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1300131754242531328?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1300132687802376192?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1300133797829120000?s=20

Problems with Neuroscience based educational approaches.

Should every teacher learn some neuroscience? In this video David Daniel & Daniel Willingham explores a particular study which consider neuroscience/ education. They explores flaws in this approach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDz8JWbHnK8 Source https://twitter.com/DTWillingham/status/1299146171559051264?s=20

Should policy makers listen to business. Where should we draw the boundary ?

Business community is sometimes the most short sighted pressure group you can see anywhere in the world. This is not because they are stupid, but because their default propensity is to optimize the present, it's anti delayed gratification, anti Sustainable development, anti Human development etc. Every country (or state) ever succeeded in the world has … Continue reading Should policy makers listen to business. Where should we draw the boundary ?

From blog Gsstudy.com to blog Johnywrites.com

I started blogging inspired by Seth Godin. His inspiring words deeply fueled my persistence for last several years and helped me to set my moto as "blog no matter what & fight perfectionism". His advice on blogging has been at the core of what inspired my continued maintenance of Gsstudy.com for last few years as … Continue reading From blog Gsstudy.com to blog Johnywrites.com

New Study: Analogy as the core of cumulative cultural evolution.

New paper argues that "analogy-building" served a critical role in the evolution of cumulative culture(differentiator from animals), by allowing humans to learn and transmit complex behavioral sequences that would otherwise be too cognitively demanding Link : Analogy as the core of cumulative cultural evolutionCharlotte Brand, Alex Mesoudi, Paul Smaldino https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1298325239256846336?s=20 https://twitter.com/LottyBrand/status/1297891571103408128?s=20

Education: Skill VS Signal Or Access to Institutions

"Education as Skill " VS "Education as Signaling" perspective dominate some part of the debate about education and its fundamental purpose. I think there could be be a third way, which is "Education as a key Card" which provides access to institutions, These institutions in-turn provides embedded skill development infrastructure viz contextual tools, practice opportunities, … Continue reading Education: Skill VS Signal Or Access to Institutions

Immigrants and Socio-economic status: Thread

When we talk about immigrants I really like to dig one more layer with things like; # Socio-economic status. # Familial socialism as a unit of observation.# Cultural background. Eg. Most Indian founders are higher caste, # Enormous familial scaffolding(kind of powerful Familial socialism),etc. https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1297333541546520576?s=20 While US elites are romanticizing about Immigrants, they practically pay … Continue reading Immigrants and Socio-economic status: Thread

Evolutionary fitness landscapes

A fitness landscape model is a metaphor used to think about the processes of evolution acting on a biological entity.This entity can be viewed as moving through a search space with two kinds of decisions: Explore maximum number of landscapes or maximum number of variations.Exploit the most out of a particular landscape. This principle is applicable to entrepreneurial search … Continue reading Evolutionary fitness landscapes

Educational Math Vs End user math mismatch

Most of the educational math time is spend on calculation than knowing the nature of problem. We are making students specialists at a thing computers can do far far better than us. https://twitter.com/jhagel/status/1295353729672126464?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1295358027726430211?s=20 https://twitter.com/esdalmaijer/status/1287813031544619008?s=20

Anders Ericsson passed way (1947 – June 17, 2020): Here is a clip in which he explains his learning strategy

Anders Ericsson spent much of his career studying what makes the world’s top athletes, chess players, musicians and others the best at what they are doing. His theory of “deliberate practice" led to him being recognized as the world’s foremost expert on expertise. His research captured attention of mainstream audience mostly after Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling … Continue reading Anders Ericsson passed way (1947 – June 17, 2020): Here is a clip in which he explains his learning strategy

Reading list on Sports Learning: Constraints-Led Approach, Ecological approchs

Constraints-Led Approach : A constraint-led approach to sport and physical education pedagogy Ian Renshaw &J-Y Chow Ecological Dynamics : The ecological dynamics of decision making in sport(Duarte Araújo, KeithDavids, Robert Hristovski) Chow’s Nonlinear Pedagogy: Nonlinear Pedagogy in Skill Acquisition Wolfgang Schöllhorn's differential learning: Differential Learning @ dls-sports.com/ These reading list was curated from my twitter … Continue reading Reading list on Sports Learning: Constraints-Led Approach, Ecological approchs

Stanford Eco-chamber and Lean Startup; a thread.

https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1290226563036790786?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1290230254624112640?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1290231077550743553?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1290231616908873728?s=20 EXTRA This paper by Nathan Crilly "‘Fixation’ and ‘the pivot’: balancing persistencewith flexibility in design and entrepreneurship" looked at ‘Design fixation’(which occurs when exploration of the solution space isunintentionally constrained by designers’ knowledge of prior solutions) in the light of the concept of PIVOT in Lean Startup. I don't agree or … Continue reading Stanford Eco-chamber and Lean Startup; a thread.

Simple reading-Simply the best

Human beings are symbolic creatures. We are able to build tools and transfer and accumulate our knowledge to next generation because of language and our cognitive ability to decode layers upon layers symbolic abstractions. Everything that is unique about human beings has something to do with language. I now suspect that Memorization and Retrieval based … Continue reading Simple reading-Simply the best