[IAEP] What makes examples good for novices? and How do we tell if an example is good for novices?

2012-02-02 Thread Steve Thomas
So I am taking a P2PU course On How to Teach Web Programmin to Free Range Learnershttp://p2pu.org/en/groups/how-to-teach-webcraft-and-programming-to-free-range-students/and a couple of questions came up: So I pose them to the community: 1. What makes examples good for novices? 2. How do we

Re: [IAEP] What makes examples good for novices? and How do we tell if an example is good for novices?

2012-02-02 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Steve, Your question made me think about research I read about a couple of years ago. The researcher was investigating narratives between patients and doctors. Their major finding was that patients naturally needed to narrate what they were experiencing, and that close to 100% of the time, the