Category Archives: Learning

I tried to answer a part of that question myself Continue reading →

Know more, or convince this audience?
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Sixty years ago today, I started school. We got a big School Cone and were very excited.

I bought Clark Quinn’s new book about training myths, semi-myths and misconceptions, and I can whole-heartedly recommend this exciting, in-depth, clinical and precise work. Continue reading →

When a chord with a ‘nonharmonic tone’ is played out of context, it sounds awful, but when we hear it as a ‘passing tone’ or as a ‘neighbor tone’, we don’t notice the dissonance — because we expect that it will immediately be resolved. Continue reading →

The spatial and temporal functions of the working memory may be not only be interrelated. Stephen Downes now expressed the idea that they are indeed similar.
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Why do learners need interactivity? Because watching their peers recognizing helps their own recognizing more than consuming canned resources.
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There was the question of what @downes and @gsiemens can do working together, and I don’t want to miss this opportunity for an early Christmas wish list 🙂 I there is much to be done in the field of machine-supported human recognition.
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“Measure learning outcomes at the atomic concept level” sounds strange.

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