Theme: Education

TEACHING ADVANCED CONCEPTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA?

You *CAN* teach on social media.
– It’s much harder on twitter than facebook. And that’s for one simple reason – the number of people on facebook vs twitter. My hope is that over the next two years as Twitter rebuilds it’s stack, and expands with new features, the combination of the cesspool that is FB’s management and personnel, vs the rise in twitter features, will cause more and more people to slowly migrate to the ‘everything app’ that musk envisions.

Teaching on Social Media:
1) Your audience will have different levels of understanding.
2) Your audience will enter at different times, and progress at different rates.
3) So you can’t control the learning process like a classroom. Instead you run it like a one-room schoolhouse with different students rotating in and out over time.
4) So you develop a set of principles (themes) that you need to convey.
… a) And then repeat core concepts regularly.
… b) And use your concepts to explain current events constantly.
… c) Then produce deep content tying everything to gether for the more developed audience.
… d) And incrementally refine your presentation of the ideas as you go along.
… e) And repeat a,b,c,d constantly and vary the depth based on the audience. For example, if you add a thousand new followers, then emphasize a,b, and if you’re noticing good comments and feedback, emphasize c,d.
… f) Provide positive feedback for any progress, not just ‘getting it right or perfect’. And share the work of those who get it right or perfect.
5) This ensures that people of different abilities who are interested enough to follow you, progress at their own rates.

I teach content that’s really complicated: cross disciplinary in logic, language, cognitive science, behavioral economics, political economics, group evolutionary strategy, and the formal construction of algorithmic law from the first principles, and first principles of the natural law of cooperation.

It’s about as hard to master as a STEM degree. It provides universal explanatory power for everything in the human experience. And for all intents and purposes, it’s free.

You can do it on social media.
But you can’t do it as we do in school and university.
It’s more like a one room school house conducted as discourse and case studies in grad school.

Cheers
-Curt Doolittle.