Content tagged with “pedagogy” under “Stuff I Looked Up”

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4MAT
Explanation
June 22, 2023
379

“This is a theory of adult learning, developed in the 70s and published in 1980 by a woman named Bernice McCarthy. 4mat describes the difference between two states of perceiving . Experiencing: actually seeing or reading about something Conceptualizing or ‘Abstracting Experience’: taking that…”

Abecedarium
Explanation
January 15, 2022
251

“This is the alphabetical list of letters present in every childhood classroom, and printed on every elementary school desk: ‘A-B-C-D…’ Technically, this is an ordered list of letters in any language, not just English. Now, you would think it’s a word formed from ‘ABC,’ but it’s not. It’s actually a…”

Autodidact, Polyglot, and Polymath
Stuff I Looked Up
Explanation
January 7, 2022
135

“I had seen these terms all referring to sort of the same thing, or being used in the same context: to mean someone who was very smart. However, they have specific meanings Autodidact: someone who is self-taught; also used to refer to someone who is able to absorb complicated subjects with no formal…”