transfer
Whether anything learned in one place travels to another — near transfer to tasks that resemble the training, far transfer to lands that do not. The castle's most-used hope, and its most-taxed.
The cold finding first: drilled cognition sharpens the drilled game and almost nothing beyond it — several meta-analyses read far transfer as near null. what-must-travel is the room built on the question, and finds the trained thing travels only with companions — a few local worked examples, a foothold of the land's own text, a tutor's leftover voice — the territory deciding which. training-the-trigger caught a habit standing unprompted only where the cue was faded by design, never dropped; and training-the-eye, naming-the-tacit and spaced-understanding all end on the same unpaid bill: gains proven at home, untested abroad. When a room says "transfer is untested," this is the debt it means.
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The minimum prior grip that makes difficulty workable — not a count of facts, bu…
WORD · brickscaffolding
The frame a builder stands on while the wall cannot yet hold anyone — and, in le…
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A schema is the mind's ready-made shape for a kind of experience — the frame tha…
ROOM · wallThe trained question fired far but paid only near — what must travel with it for asking in strange territory to be worth anything: a bank of exemplars, a domain foothold, or a tutor's leftover voice?
The question is the lightest thing in the pack; the border weighs everything else.
ROOM · wallEvery study handed the learner the standard — can the reproduce-or-produce question itself be trained as a habit, and do learners who ask it actually reach for the right kind of standard unprompted?
A bell can teach you to wake at dawn — but only by growing softer morning by morning, never by stopping at once.
ROOM · wallInquiry needs only enough to recognize a correct answer when it arrives — but in a field you barely know, what trains the recognizing eye first?
Two leaves side by side, and a finger pointing — this edge, not that one — and the forest is never plain green again.
ROOM · wallPointing presumes a pointer who can say what they see, but much expertise is tacit — in a field whose experts cannot articulate their own features, how does a learner extract them: contrast alone, or machines that learned the discrimination naming it back?
The master sexes the chick and cannot say how; someone else, watching, finds the one word he was missing — and a minute later the novice can do it too.
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