www.thefabricator.com: During the last month or so in my work at Howe’s Welding and Metal Fabrication, Ames, Iowa, I’ve twice been tasked with repairing a crack that runs along a bolt hole. These projects got me thinking about the word transfer—how we use it in metal fabrication and how we use it in education.
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This was a really good article about the learning process in the real world. I think that oftentimes people leave their school and go into the workforce with the idea that they should know everything and not have to ask any questions. But this idea only leads to issues down the road. Having examples of someone who asks questions when they don't know the answer is a good way to combat this assumption. I also really appreciated the authors decision to focus in on conceptual vs procedural knowledge. One of the things that I really like about CMU is the emphasis on gaining both conceptual and procedural knowledge. Oftentimes I've run into people who only have one or the other. People who know 'what' to do, but not really knowing the 'how', and people who know 'how' to do something but not really 'why'. In my experience, having both is vital as it enables you to pivot thoughtfully if something comes up, and also helps you foresee problems when planning out a process.
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