"To gain more insight from analytics," writes Matt Jackson, "consider whether your dashboards offer basic facts or dive into true understanding of patterns within your data." The key to this article, I think, is in the section on rote learning fersus transferability. Numerous instructivists (eg. Daniel Willingham) stress rote learning and deny the transferability of important skills like critical thinking. But in fact there's a lot of transferability throughout learning. "My students provided dozens of examples to illustrate this concept," writes Jackson. Now this articl;e is weak on how to implement this as a visualization, but the core idea is sound.
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