“At any given point in time you are perceived to be creative if you create neat things and are a good artist or a musician or a singer, which I think people associate with being creative. And I think …oftentimes have trouble with math. “Even when there’s an opportunity to make less mechanical once you start getting into algebra, unfortunately it is disproportionately taught in a very formulaic way. So you don’t really get into the creative side of it.” Even people in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) will be considered creative.“You have all this education theory and people try to make larger statements than maybe what their data would back up because they’ve done these small experiments that are tied to a very particular case with a very particular implementation…theory definitely matters, but I think dogma matters less. We can say, well ‘The current established theories say we should be conscientious of this but let’s just test it again.’ Maybe the results were only particular to that time. Now we can run very similar studies with much less pain and perhaps the theory won’t apply. That’s what’s exciting. Things like Khan Academy can be very powerful in this context. Theory tries to be very broad, it tries to make these laws of learning. But they’re almost always too general. And if you made it too particular it’s almost useless…Now the results will be particular to the Khan Academy implementation, but they will be impacting millions of students.”
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