More on Intellectual Authority
Most of the time, if you no longer trust the experts, you've started trusting someone's uncle.
Once More Unto the Understanding
It is not a given, once we turn a rigorous, scientific eye to the question, that the difference between 'knowing' and 'understanding' matters at all to the study of learning.
The Ratchet Effect
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Natural = Explicit
Young children have a 'natural pedagogy' that looks like explicit instruction.
A Vaccine for Ignorance
We need to recognize how our biases for individualism tip us toward misunderstanding and rejecting reality—and the study of reality, science.
Stop Telling Us What to Do
Get the education consultants and academy out of the way and let teachers do what they want to do—(mostly) direct instruction.
Intellectual Humility
Intellectual humility is simply recognizing that something that you believe might, in fact, be wrong.
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
Your students are boiling cauldrons of contradictions and three-dimensionality, but so are you.
On Being Smart
"We need to be bound by our traditions, but we need to be judicious in their re-representation and update."
Just 55 Percent
Why should anyone think that making instruction less explicit would increase understanding?
Small, Concrete Actions
Have we intentionally built a society that gives people little guidance on how to perform the most important activities of life?
Common Ground
Ideas can be more easily transmitted if we already are part of a group with much shared understanding.
The Coordination Problem
We need to coordinate even before we collaborate, and rules and conventions are excellent means of doing so.
Shared Understanding
It is advantageous to the group if everyone can agree on the identity and meaning of objects.
The Red-Footed Tortoise
Learning through observing the behavior of another individual is adaptive, as it provides a shortcut to finding a solution, and so avoids the costly process of trial and error learning.
The Torch of Freedom
Bernays was seized with the idea that the hidden forces acting within individuals, and more important, within crowds of them, could be hijacked.
Books and Museums
Is knowledge important? Cultural knowledge lies at the very center of one of the most notorious geopolitical disputes of the last century.
They Knew What to Do
They survived because they had the knowledge that had been handed down to them through generations past.
Seems Correct to Me
We get an independent standard only if we bring in continuous interaction among individuals, that is, if we bring in the community.