March 16, 2016 at 10:44 pm
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Matrix
March 17, 2016 at 3:11 am
I don't think that this will have a significant affect in my career as this is something that I would completely avoid being on the bleeding edge of (pun most definitely intended).
Seeing as we rarely are able to follow good learning practices in a commercial environment (practice and application soon after learning, for example) then moving it on to more intrusive measures just sets off my personal preservation alarm bells.
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
March 17, 2016 at 6:28 am
I'll pass on the shock treatment as well.
March 17, 2016 at 6:37 am
I actually own a foc.us v2 TDCS device, and have found it incredibly helpful for speeding up learning, as well as overall performance. I have also experimented with using it to help me sleep faster and wake up faster, and am trying to use it to wean me off of my ADHD medications. I have already cut my medication in half with no consequences to my performance, and am looking into using it for chronic pain reduction as well.
March 17, 2016 at 6:58 am
If you only know "how" to do somthing technical, then at best you're just a cog in an organizational machine. Consider all these folks who use "brain dumps" to pass IT certification exams and then go on to prove themselves useless as employees. To be an effective IT professional you have to know why, when, and where to apply a variety of techniques in addition to other important stuff like listening to the business and communicating with fellow team members.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
March 17, 2016 at 8:40 am
It's worth noting that just knowing how to do something in theory doesn't mean you can do it in practice, as per the kung fu example from the matrix Neo still gets his *** handed to him by Morpheus even though he "knows" kung fu.
March 17, 2016 at 9:06 am
Too much emphasis on simple skills that can be memorized or looked up with Google.
Success comes from understanding the problem and situation, and working out a solution.
The more you are prepared, the less you need it.
March 17, 2016 at 9:11 am
I don't think electric shock can be used effectively to teach developers how to write set-based SQL... but it could be applied to discourage the use of cursors. 😉
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
March 17, 2016 at 9:30 am
I'll keep this short.
Virtual Reality (VR) is going to offer a new way to learn technical material. The day is coming soon where interactive experiences will overtake our conventional passive learning modes.
While the dream of downloading something to your brain and becoming an instant expert is intriguing, I am more interested in being able to work just as fast as I can without waiting on the computer.
VR will force us to create new and better UI. Shoehorning flat controls into VR will not take advantage of what VR offers. Some of it will be intuitive but I think a lot of it will be like learning a new language. The in-editor VR capabilities are really cool- you can edit in VR without having to take your headset off and on all the time- a huge productivity time saver. Wearing a VR headset for hours a day will eventually become normal.
Books, slides, on-line courses and in-person performances will still have their place but VR will offer a whole new way to learn. I am interested in how I, as a lone individual, can use VR technologies to create and enhance my own learning experiences.
Between some of the ideas laid out by Bill Gates in Business @ the Speed of Thought (written in 1999) and Morpheus saying, "...you think that is air you're breathing???" in The Matrix, now with VR what was once future speculations and sci-fi is going to become fact very soon.
My new Oculus VR rig will arrive within the next several weeks and this summer when I am not outside I will be creating and exploring what VR can do for me. When it comes to learning, meaning and understanding beats eye and ear candy but that candy is going to be pretty cool.
March 17, 2016 at 11:39 am
Once I passed 40 all my learning has been based on "read and practice" as although courses get talked about they never happen. I actually have my doubts about new learning methods. In the UK paying for your child to do Kumon Maths is quite popular with some parents. Whilst they do appear to make progress the only ones I know who have done it for longer passed their GCSEs (aged 16) but failed their 'A' levels (18). They just seemed to lack understanding of the subject and been coached to pass exams. Topics like calculus require people to understand what they are doing...
March 17, 2016 at 12:02 pm
Understanding is different to knowing. As the old saying goes, a child doesn't understand a hammer.
I thought owning a tablet would allow me to read and research far more. What I've found is that tablets are immense time wasters that shorten your attention span.
I think we'd find that if we took the Joe90 approach to learning it would have some pretty horrible side affects.
March 18, 2016 at 8:28 am
David.Poole (3/17/2016)
...I think we'd find that if we took the Joe90 approach to learning it would have some pretty horrible side affects.
Love the reference and totally agree.
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
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