Category: Learning
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The Role of Play in Learning with Technology – an ELI Webinar
Through some interruptions, I was able to take in most of the recent ELI webinar (Gail Matthews-DeNatale and Barbara Draude presenting) on play, and in classic conference style, the best parts that I took away were from the back/side channel with the main event providing the fuel/fodder. The presentation very rightly started by pointing out…
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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…