Category Archives: Learning

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Make it Meaningful

Posted on June 13, 2022 by x28

I bought @quinnovator’s new book “Make It Meaningful”, and I like it very much.
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Bates vs. Downes

Posted on March 1, 2022 by x28

Connectivism is difficult to understand without the level of ‘concepts’. Of course concepts are just folk psychology, but this can serve as ‘shorthand’.
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Connectivism

Posted on February 13, 2022 by x28

Finally, there is a comprehensive, more easily citable, work on Connectivism available
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Ungrading, my take

Posted on June 20, 2021 by x28

My take is unprofessional but by a pupil of the 60s.
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Purpose

Posted on April 19, 2021 by x28

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Gaps

Posted on February 20, 2020 by x28

Know more, or convince this audience?
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Dependence

Posted on November 29, 2019 by x28

Stephen Downes’s talk “about a way to redefine ethics” contains a lot that sounds plausible to me. In particular, I liked this: “we learn ethics, but we learn them in such a way that we feel or experience a moral sense, rather than fully formed general principles” (slide 70)
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April 7, 1959

Posted on April 6, 2019 by x28

Sixty years ago today, I started school. We got a big School Cone and were very excited.

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Myths, semi-myths etc.

Posted on April 29, 2018 by x28

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 →

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Expectations make the difference

Posted on December 19, 2017 by x28

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 →

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