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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • My wife has a couple graduate degrees on this subject. This is one that I got to be the unwilling editor on her papers for.

    Its a lack of understanding how students need to learn the information: memorization by usage versus memorization by rote.

    Memorization by rote: This is the old school method of teaching. You memorize random facts figures with no context or usage. Its a bit of standalone information that is often not useful. Memorization by rote leads to kids that can say all of the letters but not recognize the symbols or associated them with sounds and words.

    Memorization by usage: This is a much more effective method to teach. Its also much harder. This requires teaching the concepts and systems and linking the information together. You memorize the same information by repeated usage but it’s in context. It takes a ton more skill to teach this way because you have to engage the student through the entire process, repeatedly.



















  • My kids who are teens/20 year olds.

    “Dad why are you always playing in a tank or a plane on BF?”

    Me “Because I am old.”

    I used to have reaction times like that made other people weep. I was constantly on watchlists for cheating and even banned by a few poor losers in private servers. Those days are well in the past now.