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Annie Murphy Paul: Why Teaching Someone Else is the Best Way To Learn | TIME.com - 0 views

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teaching teachable agents technology

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  • Above all, it’s the emotions elicited by teaching that make it such a powerful vehicle for learning. Student tutors feel chagrin when their virtual pupils fail; when the characters succeed, they feel what one expert calls by the Yiddish term nachas. Don’t know that word? I had to learn it myself: “Pride and satisfaction that is derived from someone else’s accomplishment.”
    • lkryder
      lkryder on 21 Jul 14
       
      Nachas is a word used in gaming as mentoring, teaching presence from players is common
  • On a subsequent test of their skills, the students who had observed agents using rules of reasoning to solve a problem “significantly outperformed” students who had only practiced applying the rules themselves.
  • A 2009 study of Betty’s Brain published in the Journal of Science Education and Technology found that students engaged in instructing her spent more time going over the material and learned it more thoroughly.
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  • The benefits of this practice were indicated by a pair of articles published in 2007 in the journals Science and Intelligence. The studies concluded that first-born children are more intelligent than their later-born brothers and sisters and suggested that their higher IQs result from the time they spend showing their younger siblings the ropes. Educators are experimenting with ways to apply this model to academic subjects. In an ingenious program at the University of Pennsylvania, a “cascading mentoring program” engages college undergraduates to teach computer science to high school students, who in turn instruct middle school students on the topic.
  • lkryder on 21 Jul 14
     
    Protege effect and some interesting information on "teachable agent"
  • lkryder on 21 Jul 14
     
    interesting to think of the technology as the component the student teaches, rather than as the teaching/teacher presence
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