This concept — “Executive Function Theft” — is such a lucid description of a constant source of frustration that, like the author, I can’t believe it hasn’t been named before and dug into.

https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/2023/08/14/executive-function-theft/

It's the thing “where one entity offloads things they consider unimportant onto some other entity they consider unimportant”. Once you see it you can't unsee it.

(Via #MetaFilter here: https://www.metafilter.com/201252/Executive-Function-Theft)

Executive Function Theft

The phrase arrived in my head so completely formed and concrete that I couldn’t believe it wasn’t already established in the lexicon, but at least preliminary searches suggest it is not…

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Twice in the last month, someone has lamented near me that they have a bunch of learned-through-experience knowledge in their head, and they don't know how to draw it out into lessons to #teach their colleagues.

This is called "tacit knowledge". And fortunately, we actually know some ways to elicit it from experts & use it to train new learners!

I've appreciated Cedric Chin's blog series on this:

https://commoncog.com/the-tacit-knowledge-series/

Thread on #MetaFilter:

https://www.metafilter.com/192038/What-is-the-experience-giving-you

#teaching #learning

'What is the experience giving you?'

Let's assume you'd like to get better at a skill. What role does learning tacit knowledge play in growing your expertise? 'Tacit knowledge is ‘knowledge that cannot be captured through words...

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