Some things are harder to teach than others.
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Some things are harder to teach than others. One of the most difficult things to explain is "how to start sewing without putting a knot at the end of the thread."
Like many tasks that I stumble over when teaching I made the fatal mistake of thinking "this is easy"
I think I need to draw diagrams?
What makes it worse is it's not that important when you are sewing a book signature how you "knot the thread" since it will be covered in glue later.
My students want an "Official Procedure"
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Some things are harder to teach than others. One of the most difficult things to explain is "how to start sewing without putting a knot at the end of the thread."
Like many tasks that I stumble over when teaching I made the fatal mistake of thinking "this is easy"
I think I need to draw diagrams?
What makes it worse is it's not that important when you are sewing a book signature how you "knot the thread" since it will be covered in glue later.
My students want an "Official Procedure"
I think this dynamic of people learning a task wanting formal official steps leads to people thinking that there is "One Right Way" to do tasks that can be done in many ways.
A frustrated teacher formalizes something that just isn't formal to avoid having everyone bugging her over and over "but how do I start it? how do I knot it?"
Will I cause someone in 20 years to be told "That's the Wrong Way to do it."
hmmm
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I think this dynamic of people learning a task wanting formal official steps leads to people thinking that there is "One Right Way" to do tasks that can be done in many ways.
A frustrated teacher formalizes something that just isn't formal to avoid having everyone bugging her over and over "but how do I start it? how do I knot it?"
Will I cause someone in 20 years to be told "That's the Wrong Way to do it."
hmmm
@futurebird tying shoes is like this. I thought my mom taught me The One Way To Tie Shoes. Then I met my wife and she had a completely different way of tying her shoes. When we had kids we each taught them our own separate ways of shoe-tying. Now that they are grown up I am dying to watch them tie their shoes to see which method they went with.
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Some things are harder to teach than others. One of the most difficult things to explain is "how to start sewing without putting a knot at the end of the thread."
Like many tasks that I stumble over when teaching I made the fatal mistake of thinking "this is easy"
I think I need to draw diagrams?
What makes it worse is it's not that important when you are sewing a book signature how you "knot the thread" since it will be covered in glue later.
My students want an "Official Procedure"
@futurebird
Having similar struggles.
Show & tell: Diagrams help person showing their idea to transmit it visually so observer can build their own mental models.
I saw your explaining diagram before the words & it totally “made sense” as I had lived experience of “end of string knot failure” mode compared to relying on earth friction physics-https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115950780276008456
Had I seen the words first, I’d have interpreted them drawing my own imaginary diagram, that would not likely going to match yours. -
@futurebird
Having similar struggles.
Show & tell: Diagrams help person showing their idea to transmit it visually so observer can build their own mental models.
I saw your explaining diagram before the words & it totally “made sense” as I had lived experience of “end of string knot failure” mode compared to relying on earth friction physics-https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115950780276008456
Had I seen the words first, I’d have interpreted them drawing my own imaginary diagram, that would not likely going to match yours.I thought making a diagram was "overkill" but I can see that it's not.
Lets see if this helps them to be more independent about this part of the project.
