Category Archives: Learning

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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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Working memory

Posted on October 22, 2017 by x28

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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Week 1 of new cMOOC

Posted on January 30, 2017 by x28

Why do learners need interactivity? Because watching their peers recognizing helps their own recognizing more than consuming canned resources.
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Wish list

Posted on April 9, 2016 by x28

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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