Thread by @webdevMason

Thank you for sharing this, @rlj_law! I hope homeschooling works out well for your family, and I hope that the benefits of self-directed learning with adult aid and guidance become manifest in COVID learning bubbles everywhere. 🙂

Quick recap: kids are curious; they direct their attention to what interests them and develop models to explain what they see, what happens when they act. They become confused when new information is incompatible with those models. They're driven to explore to achieve coherence.

This is actually how all learning occurs for both adults and children. There are strategies for forcing statements of fact and basic procedures into memory for recall, but subsequent untaught insight requires models that develop via confusion/curiosity + exploration of answers

Do you recall the difference between developing an intense interest in one subject and just "cramming" for another? These are qualitatively different experiences that lead to dramatic differences in retention and accessibility later in life