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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 05:26:50 JST Paul Cantrell

   • Jenniferplusplus

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   > Learning with instruction is generally more effective than learning through struggle.

   I don’t think this is necessarily a true statement? Guided learning beats unproductive struggle, but learning through struggle that eventually succeed produces far better retention etc than guided learning that becomes passive/receptive. There’s a huge literature on this that I’m not up on at all, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t break cleanly along that particular line.

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     • Jenniferplusplus

     @inthehands @jenniferplusplus I would say that regardless whether guided learning from an entity that actually knows the material or independent learning tested against reality both best working with jumped-up autocorrect. The machine will tell you that you’re doing great things while spitting out garbage—counter-instructional is certainly one way to put it.

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     Jenniferplusplus (jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 05:43:59 JST Jenniferplusplus

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     @inthehands Right, it's not universally the case. There are bad instructors and bad instructional contexts.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 05:51:42 JST Paul Cantrell

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     …and good struggles, which are what good instructors help create