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Daniel Willingham
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Daniel Willingham's personal blog at danielwillingham.com covers science. Since 2009, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Learning Styles FAQ”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Daniel Willingham's blog as a cognitive-science reference, especially his learning-styles FAQ, and for his points on job interviews, classroom teaching and math education.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Web page for Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia
Most-linked posts?
- Learning Styles FAQ4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-02-09
- /articles.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-02-12
What Hacker News says?
Here's a writeup about a recent study that showed interviewers couldn't predict GPA any better when the interviewees answers were accurate versus random: http://www.danielwillingham.com/1/post/2013/10/why-job-inter... Anyone who supports math puzzles (or whatever else) in an interview would have to argue that their perception of the candidates performance offers a clear enough data point that it doesn't dilute other…
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on “Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code”Submitted The Latest On Intelligence as a story · 218 points
HN discussionAs mentioned in the article: > surprisingly few studies of this format have produced supporting evidence for learning styles; far more evidence (such as this study) runs counter to the myth. There's been a number of meta-analysis done (e.g. [1]), and they overwhelmingly conclude that there's just no support for learning styles. So, it's a myth until proven otherwise. See also Willingham's book based on his research…
Comment linking /learning-styles-faq.html
on “Being a “dumb” girl in Computer Science”Submitted The 21st century skill students really lack as a story · 25 points
HN discussionTake a look at Daniel Willingham's material and his book "Why Don't Students Like School" Here's a review of the book: http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/04/one-of-handfull-one-of... Here's Dr Willingham's web site with a lot of articles worth reading: http://www.danielwillingham.com/articles.html Here's his credentials: Earned his B.A. from Duke University in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Harvard…
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on “How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math”Submitted Learning Styles FAQ as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDaniel Willingham convinced me: http://www.danielwillingham.com/learning-styles-faq.html
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on “LHC Physics Center bans Powerpoint, switches to whiteboard-only forums”Submitted Why you shouldn't hire like Google as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFYI the first cited research is to the work of the primary author of the CMF. Her work appears to be very ideologically-motivated, and her colleagues have raised serious questions about her research. She also routinely misrepresents the work of others. Based on what I have read [1, 2 of many], I no longer trust anything she says without checking the actual source. Based on coverage I've read, the CMF does not cite,…
Comment linking /daniel-willingham-science-and-education-blog/march-13th-2019
on “An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter”Submitted How Children Succeed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI see this guest blog post was kindly submitted here today after making the rounds of my Facebook friends yesterday. What I have to say about this is that ill prepared college freshmen are a well known phenomenon in the United States. But I think the author of the guest blog post submitted here has not correctly identified the underlying cause of that problem. I have read some of the curriculum standards adopted in…
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on “A warning to college profs from a high school teacher”Submitted If You're Going to Write About Science of Reading, Get Your Science Right as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://www.danielwillingham.com/daniel-willingham-science-an...
Comment linking /daniel-willingham-science-and-education-blog/is-listening-to-an-audio-book-cheating
on “Ask HN: Are there any studies about book reading retention rates vs. audiobooks?”Submitted Should Students Listen to Background Music While They Read? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDaniel Willingham, cognitive scientist, convinced me of this: http://www.danielwillingham.com/learning-styles-faq.html
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on “The concept of “learning styles” is one of the greatest neuroscience myths”Submitted Learning Styles FAQ as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAnnie Murphy Paul, the author of the article kindly submitted here, is a very thoughtful author on psychology and education research. I see she cites the path-breaking article by Daniel Willingham, which led to his Learning Styles FAQ,[1] which I encourage all of my friends here on Hacker News to read to better understand what this issue is about learning styles. People do tend to take somewhat differing approaches…
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on “Do Students Really Have Different Learning Styles?”Submitted How to Make a Young Child Smarter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis might be a bit of a tangent, but "learning styles" have very little supporting evidence (if any): http://www.danielwillingham.com/learning-styles-faq.html Just to be clear: I have absolutely no doubt that having ADHD will impact your ability to sit through lectures -- I'm just commenting on the generalisation to "learning styles". And, yes: CS has very little to do with actual programming unless you actively wo…
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on “What should a self-taught programmer study?”Submitted Women, STEM, and beliefs about effort as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere are links to a number of supporting articles and papers on the OP's website - http://www.danielwillingham.com/ My two cents as an educator of business people? Any system that tries to categorise from an EITHER/OR perspective will be limited - human beings are too complex to fit into neat boxes, especially when there are only three options. When you come from an AND perspective, you can use these frameworks (eg…
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on “Student "Learning Styles" Theory Is Bunk”Submitted How can you know if it's *really* "research-based?" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWillingham would be proud, as this is a recurring theme and a whole chapter in his book "Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom." He also made this case on this on his blog when responding to Andrew Hacker's ridiculous suggestion to change math so that you don't actually learn math: "The problem is that if you try to meet t…
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on “The 21st century skill students really lack”Submitted Is technology changing how students learn? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI too spend time learning breadth of topics, including startups (though it is orthogonal to my work). However, I retain very little after a while. I stumbled in to Edgar Dale's "Cone of Learning" or "Pyramid of Learning" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Dale Based on that, I plan to teach whatever I learn (God save the listener/viewer!) by compiling short videos and unleashing it on the common man, via youtube. A…
Comment linking /daniel-willingham-science-and-education-blog/cone-of-learning-or-cone-of-shame
on “Ask HN: What tips do you have for a life of active, independent learning?”
