Tag: Cognitive Stuff
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The problem of transfer
Thanks to Mark for the reminder on this. One of the things that Iām really enjoying here in the Faculty of Science is that people are asking as much about the technology as they are about what is good teaching about. So when these conversations come up, one comment that is almost always to be…
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Bloom 2.0 – What should we use to cap it?
Yup, it seems that I’m blogging on the weekend – if not because I don’t seem to have the time through the week for the last little while and, well things have been a little nuts. So having said that I found two articles over the last week that I think are really pointing toward…
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OLPC to teach kids in the Mindtools mindset
According Daily Tech, the kinderlappy is going to be focusing on teaching kids how to use Office apps rather than how to create new things using an interface called “Sugar”. I don’t think they are really understanding what learning with a laptop can mean.Ć It’s not about creating new “things” whatever those are, it’s about…
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The forgetting curve
Stephen Downes had a post a week ago that described the mistakes of elearning development. While ignoring the main parts of the post and focusing on the first graph, one thing struck me. This is exactly how any learning process that one undertakes would go. Up to a certain point, there can be some standard…