Author: Larry Sanger
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Why is spaced repetition not better known?
Suppose a method let you remember things with a 95% success rate–in other words, whatever information you’ve put into a system, you’d have a 95% chance of recalling it–and this effect is permanent, […]
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How not to use the Internet, part 4: how “social” is social media?
<< Part 3: How the Internet’s current design philosophy fails 4. How “social” is social media? A person who is “social,” we think, gets along with others and does not always stay at […]
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How not to use the Internet, part 3: how the Internet’s current design philosophy fails
<<Part 2:Ā The pernicious design philosophy of the Internet 3. How the Internet’s current design philosophy fails. Websites compete for the really limited commodity online, namely, attention. That much is understandable, and not likely […]
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How not to use the Internet, part 2: the pernicious design philosophy of the Internet
<< Part 1:Ā It’s a problem that the Internet distracts us 2. The pernicious design philosophy of the Internet. The way that the Internet is designedānot graphic design, but overall habits and architectureāencourages the […]
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How not to use the Internet, part 1: it’s a problem that the Internet distracts us
For almost a year, I’ve been at work on a very long essay about some problems with the Internet and social media in particular. I’ve worked on it now and then and occasionally […]
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Memory method
(The following is edited and elaborated from my comments inĀ this BrillKids Forum discussion. The BrillKids Forum is awesome. The method we follow is greatly updated in this post.) I had an interesting conversation […]
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Wikipedia’s porn filter DOA, and a proposal
Warning: this post has links to pages that are definitely not safe for work or school. I’ll warn you which ones those are with “NSFW.” The post has two parts. The first is […]
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The uses of Reading Bear
After reading some feedback from a recent survey I performed on the Reading Bear website, it strikes me that some people don’t understand how to use the site, despite the availability of help […]
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Update about the boys, part 2 – February 2012
Since it’s been over a month since I updated you about H., it’s about time I updated you about baby E., who is now 16 months. First, I’m happy to report that E. […]
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Efficiency as a basic educational principle
It occurred to me that there is a simple pedagogical principle that explains the appeal of very early learning, homeschooling, and certain (not all) traditional methods of education, as well as why certain […]