Useful Mental Models For Learning and Teaching From 📖 Accelerated Learning

Summary of 📖 Accelerated Expertise: Training for High Proficiency in a Complex World (Part 1)

I recently read Accelerated Expertise. Here are some mental models, frames, and theories worth remembering:

• Accelerated Learning, the core term of the book, is defined by the authors as the question of whether it's possible to make a novice into an expert in less than 10 years.

• Journeymen, a guild-era term referring to people who are not yet experts, but adept enough to handle single-day jobs on their own (by going on a journey).

• Common Elements Theory, a theory by Thorndike, states that learning transfer occurs when both tasks (or exercises, or whatever) share identical elements.

• Part-Task Training vs. Whole-Task Training, The decision whether to base training around doing the whole task at once, or to break down a complex task into parts first. Especially when transitioning from part-task to whole-task, it appears to have many parallels with scaffolding.

• Cognitive Apprenticeship, a constructivist theory built around mentorship.

• Robustness, the ability to perform across a diverse range of variations.

• Resilience, the ability to recover from disruptions or problems.

• Adaptivity, the ability to reach the goal in many ways.

• Practice with Zeal, a really old (and not that often used) term, which appears to me to be a precursor to the much more stringently defined Deliberate Practice.