sagefy
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Comment · 7 years ago
Hey, founder of Sagefy here. Thanks for the reply :)
Currently Sagefy is a side project, so there's no income to speak of. There's some ideas I've had around potential revenue streams, but I want to avoid needless tracking, third party advertising, and pay walls. It's a ways down the road regardless.
I'm not a lawyer so I can't speak to GDPR, but there's a list of everything its currently using: https://docs.sagefy.org/technology-stack
Sagefy does not sell or rent data. https://sagefy.org/terms
Comment · 8 years ago
Hattie's effect size list is a good place to start if you're interested in what teaching practices leads to better learning results:
https://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effec...
I few others I'd recommend:
- How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles by Ambrose, Bridges, DiPietro, Lovett, & Norman
- How People Learn by Bransford, Brown, Cocking, & Pellegrino
- Learning How to Learn by Barbara Oakley
- Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Ericsson and Pool
Discloser: I wrote https://sgef.cc/tldrideas and am building Sagefy, a learning platform
Comment · 8 years ago
Happy to answer any questions.
Comment · 8 years ago
Thanks for picking up on it :) I wrote the long version first actually. I had a few people review before publishing. There were some concerns about the length (25 minutes). So I made the linked summary version as well. I posted both to Hacker News today. But the summary seems to be getting much more interest :)
Comment · 8 years ago
Thanks for reading and the question :)
I'm inclined to agree that being able to recognize and recall information is a different (and often prerequisite) skill from applying the same information. Bloom's taxonomy https://bit.ly/1KRj4ZH is the way I think about it: recall/recognition, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of the same piece of knowledge are all distinct skills. You have to teach or seek to learn each separately... its not automatic that learning one gives you the other skills. (There's been some criticism of the taxonomy. But I'm not sure I've seen a better model.)
The latter part of your question, about academic v practical education in CS programs... I'm not familiar with the research about what improves retention in academic programs. That said, the more you can align and connect to someone's values and beliefs -- what gives them purpose -- they more motivated they are to learn.