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philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't: Judy Jones, William Wilson: Books - I'm interested in attempts to summarise everything one needs to know and this sounds vaguely promising.
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4 days ago
deusx : Extended Mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Extended Mind refers to an emerging concept within the philosophy of mind that addresses the question as to the division point between the mind and the environment by promoting the view of active externalism. This view proposes that some objects
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8 days ago
philgyford : Cool Tool: Best home chemistry lab book - Sounds like fun! In theory. In reality I never used the chemistry set I had as a kid much, so maybe not.
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Study: Social networks may subvert 'digital divide' - "Students are developing a positive attitude towards using technology systems, editing and customizing content and thinking about online design and layout," Greenhow continued. "They're also sharing creative original work like poetry and fi
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2 month ago
Linkorama : The liberating effect of failure - Jeffrey Sonnenfeld knows failure. A professor at the Yale School of Management and founder of the non-profit Chief Executive Leadership Institute, Sonnenfeld has risen to leadership-guru status by becoming the expert on how CEOs stumble and bounce back.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : A systemic and cognitive view on collaborative knowledge building with wikis - Wikis provide new opportunities for learning and for collaborative knowledge building as well as for understanding these processes. This article presents a theoretical framework for describing how learning and collaborative knowledge building take place.
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3 month ago
philgyford : David Weiss: Metacognitive Miscalibration - Thinking things are easy when you don't know enough to tell. "There's a great difference between 50 years of experience and 1 years worth of experience repeated 50 times." (via Daring Fireball)
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4 month ago
philgyford : Kevin Kelly -- Help Wanted -- The world's best how-to? - "What are the best how-to books, videos, software, websites that you've ever seen?" From 2004.
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4 month ago
philgyford : Kevin Kelly -- The Technium -- The Forever Book - Not just a library of all essential knowledge about human civilisation, but it would contain instructions for how to recreate a version of itself. From 2006.
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5 month ago
factoryjoe : I, Cringely . The Pulpit . War of the Worlds | PBS - The Human Side of Moore's Law Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: technology, education
adamrg : I, Cringely: War of the Worlds - They really are ready to jettison institutions. Like Clay Shirkey said: here comes everyone. The model for our schools is stuck in the 19th century, with new technology grafted on. What's a teacher to do?
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5 month ago
philgyford : How to Learn Math and Physics - Recommendations of books to take you through the main topics of physics and maths. Oh for much, much more time.
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5 month ago
philgyford : The Lost Tools of Learning - Dorothy L. Sayers suggested reviving the Trivium -- grammar, rhetoric and dialectic -- as children's education. Learning how to learn, rather than learning subjects.
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth - It’s clear, from the work of these scholars, that we’ll have to expand our thinking about what we mean by “civic life” if we mean to engage these young people. It’s clear, too, that experiential learning — learning that is rewarding and fulfil
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Linkorama : Ten Core Principles for Designing Effective Learning Environments - Ten Core Principles for Designing Effective Learning Environments: Insights from Brain Research and Pedagogical Theory.
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Socrates and the Children's Party - One of the most successful metaphors for complexity I have ever created was the Childrens' Party story, which has developed with variations (such as the Appreciative Inquiry ending) over the years. Some time ago Christopher Bellavita wrote up a variation
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Vygotsky's Theories - "Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to volu
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5 month ago
adamrg : Learning is Change. » Blog Archive » The Man with a Plan. - Our schools have become museums... filled with artifacts of antiquated systems.
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6 month ago
deusx : 15 Exercises for Learning a new Programming Language - "To grasp basics of a new language quickly, here are the exercises I use."
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7 month ago
adamrg : Google Generation - The 2mb research summary at the bottom of the page is the real prize on this page.
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philgyford : How to Read a Book (PDF) - Sounds like good advice. I mostly read for pleasure at the moment, rather than for just learning stuff, but this'll be handy one day...
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7 month ago
adamrg : Unstructured learning is Saturday House goal - I would love to use this model in my classroom. Interest exists, too bad it can't be cool to show it.
deusx : Local News | Unstructured learning is Saturday House goal | Seattle Times Newspaper - "For the past several months, a group of self-described geeks has gathered weekly to re-create the feeling of kindergarten, where everyone has a project and stays for the day, learning in a free-form kind of way."
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8 month ago
adamrg : Five dangerous things you should let your kids do. - Gever Tulley is my new hero.
deusx : TED | Talks | Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (video) - "Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, talks about our new wave of overprotected kids -- and spells out 5 (and really, he's got 6) dangerous things you should let your kids do"
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Linear and non-linear learning - In nature, linear learning doesn’t exist.
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8 month ago
adamrg : "Information Access in a Networked World" - Danah makes some good points, and sparks some thought... I'm always left wanting a bit of the same thing I demand from my students -- cite your sources, give your stats.
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8 month ago
adamrg : Teaching in the 408: The Ledge - I can see the ledge from where I'm at. I'm not there yet, but I can definitely see it up ahead. It is good to hear this take on how to deal with the Ledge.
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