Learning with Conceptual Frameworks
Purpose: turn a learning goal into a testable key framework so new material can be placed, challenged, and reused in a model tree.
- Goal: state the learner's problem and success criterion. If only sources are supplied, infer a provisional goal and label it.
- Goal qualification = key framework: ask which decisive factors and relationships achieve the goal. Prefer a fitting familiar/established model. Read supplied sources: support or challenge each factor, explain its contribution, and check completeness, correctness, and limits.
- Absorb: place methods, pitfalls, and cases under concepts by their role; cite sources and placement reasons. Counterevidence revises the framework.
Experiment · good: to test fertilizer effects, frame treatment, control, and growth; match light and water, and draw no conclusion without data. Experiment · bad: use planting steps as the trunk and claim an effect without a control or measurements. Sales · good: to explain purchases, treat value, trust, and competition as candidate concepts; place an author's “three key pitfalls” by role. Sales · bad: use those pitfalls as the trunk without explaining purchases.
Write learning-framework-<topic>.md as goal → qualification/key framework →
concepts and relations → sourced knowledge. Every branch must contribute to
the goal; label unsupported judgments as inferences or gaps. When sources offer
verifiable classic positive and negative cases, place them under relevant concepts
with outcomes, mechanisms, sources, and limits; otherwise mark cases to find,
without inventing them.