Part of the reluctance to link, I think, is because sometimes we do have to go through being naked before we can put on proper approach clothes -- and on some level we know this. The linkage becomes a barrier, then, to the open discussion needed to learn: in other words, if you're afraid you're going to be shamed for ignorantly "just not getting" how calculus derivatives work, then you'll never speak up in class, and you'll end up remaining ignorant about them. The worst result is that you'll go out of your way in future to avoid any possibility of learning them, because you've become conflict-avoidant.
The process of learning requires stupid questions, like "but why can't you divide by zero?" ... That learning is going on in posts I've seen excoriated for ignorance, when (to my eyes) I can see the posters don't get something, are aware others say this "not getting" is not okay, and need to work through and/or reconcile their current knowledge with this new or revised understanding. It's a process of internalization, I suppose. But that process requires sometimes saying something (outwardly) stupid -- but still valid -- like, oh, "but girls are weaker than boys... aren't they?" If you get slapped for just plain asking the question... you learn not to ask the question.
Shutting down that learning process with the full onslaught of public disapproval is, I think, the greatest damage done by the dogpiling enabled by link-spams.
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Date: 22 Jan 2011 06:49 pm (UTC)proper approachclothes -- and on some level we know this. The linkage becomes a barrier, then, to the open discussion needed to learn: in other words, if you're afraid you're going to be shamed for ignorantly "just not getting" how calculus derivatives work, then you'll never speak up in class, and you'll end up remaining ignorant about them. The worst result is that you'll go out of your way in future to avoid any possibility of learning them, because you've become conflict-avoidant.The process of learning requires stupid questions, like "but why can't you divide by zero?" ... That learning is going on in posts I've seen excoriated for ignorance, when (to my eyes) I can see the posters don't get something, are aware others say this "not getting" is not okay, and need to work through and/or reconcile their current knowledge with this new or revised understanding. It's a process of internalization, I suppose. But that process requires sometimes saying something (outwardly) stupid -- but still valid -- like, oh, "but girls are weaker than boys... aren't they?" If you get slapped for just plain asking the question... you learn not to ask the question.
Shutting down that learning process with the full onslaught of public disapproval is, I think, the greatest damage done by the dogpiling enabled by link-spams.