A number of stories both on HN and here are about how to teach and learn, and on education in general. Many of these seem to be tagged with a combination of philosophy, culture, compsci, and practices, but none of those tags are particularly accurate. Could we add a tag called education to use with these stories?
I’d agree with it for teaching, and have thought something similar myself.
The problem is that a lot of the “How to learn <X>” stories tend to be kinda vapid, and it’s a magnet for blogspam or service/product advertising.
Perhaps if we had a
tutorialorhowtotag instead, that emphasized “reading this article will teach you how to do a concrete thing”?Good point. Maybe two tags are appropriate: one for articles genuinely related to education, and one for “learn X” that also comes with a hotness penalty?
I rather like this. I don’t want legit pedagogy/education lumped in with the junk.
That sounds like a good proposal to me!
I added one for education. I’m not sure about the tutorial one though…
I assume the new tag is for discussing education rather than for tutorials/howtos? If so, perhaps the description should be tweaked to make this clearer?
It seems like there’s some consensus around this. What’s the protocol for getting a new tag added? Should we ping @jcs or something?