The curse of knowledge is that experts become unconscious of their current knowledge and forget how they arrived at that knowledge. missdcoxblog.wordpress.com/2021/03/29/the…
One of the greatest flaws of current education is the assumption that comprehension leads to competence. It's a completely upside-down model of learning!
Explaining complex narratives is also very difficult to get across when you begin with the conclusion and work yourself backward. This is how proofs are presented in mathematics. There's a statement and you find a way to discover why it is true.
It's a very different activity from model making. In model making, you start of with parts and you build a whole with the parts. To understand how to create, you begin with mastery of the parts and how they compose with each other to get to the whole.
The first kind of thinking of decomposing a whole into parts is what you do when you attempt to explain something. But explanations fall on deaf ears if the listener does not understand the vocabulary.
To understand vocabulary is to not only know the meaning of individual words but also know how words interrelate and compose together to make sentences. To be fluent in a language is to know how to create sentences in that language.
We don't learn language by just understanding grammatical structure. We don't learn musing by understanding music theory. We learn by doing. We learn by creating.
Unfortunately, we educate students only to explain. To recite back the information they previously received. We don't teach students to create, rather we only train them to imitate and mimic.
Thus we only have students with conscious incompetence. They know what to mimic, but they lack the competence to create. Never do they reach unconscious competence.
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