http://www.metafilter.com/tags/productive Posts tagged with 'productive' at MetaFilter. Tue, 01 May 2012 05:10:25 -0800 Tue, 01 May 2012 05:10:25 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/115483/Failing%2Dto%2Dsucceed The <a href="http://ideas.time.com/2012/04/25/why-floundering-is-good/">learning paradox</a> is at the heart of “productive failure." While the model adopted by many teachers and employers when introducing others to new knowledge — providing lots of structure and guidance early on, until the students or workers show that they can do it on their own — makes intuitive sense, it may not be the best way to promote learning. With one group of students, the teacher provided strong “scaffolding” .... Meanwhile, a second group was directed to solve the same problems by collaborating with one another, absent any prompts from their instructor. These students weren’t able to complete the problems correctly. But in the course of trying to do so, they generated a lot of ideas about the nature of the problems and about what potential solutions would look like. And when the two groups were tested on what they’d learned, the second group “significantly outperformed” the first. <a href="http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2012/04/the-learning-paradox/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+68131+%28Farnam+Street%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher">Via</a>. <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10508406.2011.591717">Paywalled paper</a>. Bonus <a href="http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2012/04/learn-anything-faster-with-the-feynman-technique/">Feynman learning technique</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.115483 Tue, 01 May 2012 05:10:25 -0800 failure learning productive research teaching unSane