I have an intuitive sense that distillation (as defined in the Research Debt article) differs from pedagogy by focusing more on clarity, being more opinionated, and drawing connections between topics/fields while focusing less on comprehensiveness and accessibility. Admittedly though, some of my favorite examples of distillation—Paths Perspective on Value Learning, If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?--are also quite accessible as pedagogical examples. That said, I do think these examples illustrate the opinionated point. These authors are writing about the parts of their topics that interest them and from their perspectives, not trying to describe the topics comprehensively.
Let me just reiterate that this is me thinking out loud. I have not yet distilled the difference between distillation and pedagogy.
Is this question the same as “what are your favorite examples of pedagogy in different fields?” Or if not, what’s the difference?
Good question—frankly, I’m not sure!
I have an intuitive sense that distillation (as defined in the Research Debt article) differs from pedagogy by focusing more on clarity, being more opinionated, and drawing connections between topics/fields while focusing less on comprehensiveness and accessibility. Admittedly though, some of my favorite examples of distillation—Paths Perspective on Value Learning, If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?--are also quite accessible as pedagogical examples. That said, I do think these examples illustrate the opinionated point. These authors are writing about the parts of their topics that interest them and from their perspectives, not trying to describe the topics comprehensively.
Let me just reiterate that this is me thinking out loud. I have not yet distilled the difference between distillation and pedagogy.
Thought I just had after writing this: I think distillation is probably a subset of pedagogy.