4: Teaching Abstract Concepts
- Abstract Concept ?
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- more than meets the eye (! Picasso)
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- nonconcrete information D instance in real
(sensory) world
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- e.g. circle O > circle
o, yet
x > Y ?
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- Learn:
recode sensory information → mental model
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- understanding requires information
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- differs: person - person, concept - concept
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- multimodal (sensory): helps learning
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- esp sense disabled & some people
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Premise: accessible knowledge → better learning for all