AN “OLD SCHOOL” VIEW OF THE HUMAN LEARNING PROCESS? Hmmm… I recently stumbled across an old tweet by MarTennis suggesting that opponents of ROG were “old School” coaches. Let me set the record scientifically straight. As I have posted, recent research has demonstrated what scientists have always known: implicit learning is not capable of interpolation or extrapolation. The research confirmed, when applied to the ROG protocol, that the student will develop a neural process for the red ball, then a separate process for the orange ball and yet another process for the green ball, and then another process for the yellow ball. The easy metaphor is this: You move to a new city and learn how to get from home to the grocery store. Then you learn how get from home to the movie. The brain does not discard the knowledge of the route to the store and replace it with the route to the movie. Nor does it build a map to the movie from the map to the store. They are separate entities and both are necessary. If our development of implicit knowledge worked any other way, we would have died out millions of years ago. But we are still here. The MIT research showed how this operates and demonstrated, speaking in ROG terms, that a new network will be formed and “solidified” for each new ball if you bother to train long enough. “Long enough” means learning to rally and play with each ball. Now when you switch from red to orange the process begins all over again, but the red network is not discarded; nor is the orange network built up from the red network. They are separate networks in the striatum. The same applies to the green and then the yellow ball. Very inefficient! The mistaken belief that the orange skill would be built up from the red skill is “old school” learning theory, or more specifically, amateur learning theory. The implicit learning process just does not work that way, and never has. So the ROG opponents are the “modern school” thinkers and the ROG supporters are the “old school” thinkers.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:50:31 +0000
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