So I guess one direction this line of thinking could go is how we can get the society-level benefits of a cognitive diversity of minds without necessarily having cognitively-uneven kids grow up in pain.
Absolutely, yeah. A sort of drop-dead basic thing, which I suppose is hard to implement for some reason, is just not putting so much pressure on kids—or more precisely, not acting as though everything ought to be easy for every kid. Better would be skill at teaching individual kids by paying attention to the individual’s shape of cognition. That’s difficult because it’s labor-intensive and requires open-mindedness. I don’t know anything about the economics of education and education reform, but yeah, it would be good to fix this… AI tutors could probably improve over the status quo in many cases, but would lack some important longer-term adaptation (like, actually learning how the kid thinks and what ze can and can’t easily do).
I don’t know either, but I think of Tracing Woodgrains’ Center for Educational Progress and the growing Discord community around it as a step in this direction.
Absolutely, yeah. A sort of drop-dead basic thing, which I suppose is hard to implement for some reason, is just not putting so much pressure on kids—or more precisely, not acting as though everything ought to be easy for every kid. Better would be skill at teaching individual kids by paying attention to the individual’s shape of cognition. That’s difficult because it’s labor-intensive and requires open-mindedness. I don’t know anything about the economics of education and education reform, but yeah, it would be good to fix this… AI tutors could probably improve over the status quo in many cases, but would lack some important longer-term adaptation (like, actually learning how the kid thinks and what ze can and can’t easily do).
I don’t know either, but I think of Tracing Woodgrains’ Center for Educational Progress and the growing Discord community around it as a step in this direction.