Learning

Created: 2024-02-08 12:09:42 - Touched: 2024-12-09 15:13:39 - Status: Seed

This video is awful and I do not recommend it. It frames applied behavioral analysis, which is regularly used to essentially torture Autistic children, as the be-all end-all savior of education. It reduces children to numbers that can be plotted on a graph. It prioritizes quick regurgitation of ideas over deep understanding by focusing on the amount of time it takes to complete an assignment or test beyond just the percentage of questions answered correctly. It assumes that children are machines, and operates under the principle that the only thing necessary or possible for influencing learning outcomes or behaviors is environmental control of operand conditioning, completely ignoring the psychological state of the child. I hate basically everything about this video and the "teaching" it describes. It makes my skin crawl.

The psychology of learning is pretty clear that the student's emotional state plays a significant role in their ability to learn. So can hunger and lack of sleep. People are not robots, and treating them that way is not only ineffective but cruel.

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