Paul Cantrell
This computer science professor strongly endorses the advice in this thread from @grimalkina. The initial framing is about working with/around generative AI in coding, but the lesson is so much bigger.
If you want to learn it, play with it.
Reading, studying, listening: that’s all just the setup for the learning. The real learning begins when the play begins.
https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112576282584345800
Paul Cantrell
An analogy I use a lot with my programming students: suppose you don’t know how to ride a bicycle. You could read 10,000 pages about riding bicycles and watch all the tutorial videos in the world, and I guarantee that the first time you actually got on a bicycle, you’d still fall off.
Paul Cantrell
There’s much more good advice in the original thread, such as these wise words about taking a moment to reflect on one’s own learning: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112576329558078027
multiplex
@inthehands @grimalkina amen. Build something. Anything.
Stu
@inthehands if you'd like another analogue, I've spent ages in Duolingo, but my language proficiency is still terrible. Whereas my wife buys books and translates as she reads, or watches QVC Japan.
Paul Cantrell
@AdeptVeritatis
I like the use of “mise en place” as a term for the preparation necessary for learning.
This thread is excessively long to be in somebody else’s mentions. For a train of thought this long, I’d appreciate it if you either post to your own TL, or untag the people you’re tagging after the first reply post in the chain.
AdeptVeritatis
The kitchen world has a name for it: "mise en place".
Prepare your environment so you can work efficiently, when time restrictions get tight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_place
This also applies to other spaces like schools, where e.g. metal detectors are not good to create an atmosphere of safe learning.
(Not even decades but centuries old findings.)
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