Category: Learning
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WILB Tinkering Rock Learning?
Between Brent Coker and John Seely Brown, it seems to me that there is increasing evidence to support the use of “sprinting” when teaching and or learning. When people tinker, they do so in short sprints – things are adjusted and tested for a short spell, then another problem is addressed before returning to the…
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Crayon Physics
One of the things that I enjoyed when taking physics courses was drawing the little diagrams to help explain the problem that I was trying to solve. This is a technique that is good for all manner of disciplines, but it seems to have been adopted best by Physics. So when I saw this game,…
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Anti-teaching
I haven’t heard it called this, but working toward question generation and self relevance is certainly a great idea.
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Don Tapscott on millenials as information streamers
The lecture is becoming defunct… it’s a bad model of pedagogy – [the empty vessel idea] is a bad way of learning, we need a more sophiticated model… a hyperlinked stream of information is where we are going. Donald’s book, Growing Up Digital has certainly ruffled a few feathers and a couple weeks ago he…
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Growing up Gaming
Let’s start with this: There is an interesting message here, there are likely many people out there who think like this – people for whom the ideas from the Matrix are not really that far fetched. But the take home message is that we have come to a point that games have matured to a…