Language and the Learning of Mathematics
We think in terms of words. Yet today anyone who identifies lexical reasoning, based on gradually formalized natural language, as the key to the learning of mathematics, is filing a minor...
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http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/allen4.htm
We think in terms of words. Yet today anyone who identifies lexical reasoning, based on gradually formalized natural language, as the key to the learning of mathematics, is filing a minor...
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http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/allen4.htm
Wikiphilia
When you first see a cool technology, you think it's great at everything. Later, as you internalize the concepts, you realize that there are inherent tradeoffs, and that therefore the sof...
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http://pluralsight.com/blogs/craig/archive/2005/02/18/5991.aspx
When you first see a cool technology, you think it's great at everything. Later, as you internalize the concepts, you realize that there are inherent tradeoffs, and that therefore the sof...
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http://pluralsight.com/blogs/craig/archive/2005/02/18/5991.aspx
The Selfish Class
This approach might be thought of as software sociobiology, since it takes the attitude that systems, users, and programmers exist merely as vehicles to abet the evolution of code.
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http://www.joeyoder.com/papers/patterns/Selfish/selfish.html
This approach might be thought of as software sociobiology, since it takes the attitude that systems, users, and programmers exist merely as vehicles to abet the evolution of code.
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http://www.joeyoder.com/papers/patterns/Selfish/selfish.html
The Meaning of Life
People who do not share any metaphors will usually be unable to regard one another with anything beyond fear, hostility, and contempt.
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http://users.aristotle.net/~diogenes/insane.htm
People who do not share any metaphors will usually be unable to regard one another with anything beyond fear, hostility, and contempt.
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http://users.aristotle.net/~diogenes/insane.htm
On XForms, XPath, CSS, Brevity, Syntax And More
One of the main questions that will determine the adoption of XForms or Web Forms [is] whether [humans] will become as inured to writing true() in an expression as they have become with t...
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http://koranteng.blogspot.com/2005/04/on-xforms-xpath-css-brevity-syntax-and.html
One of the main questions that will determine the adoption of XForms or Web Forms [is] whether [humans] will become as inured to writing true() in an expression as they have become with t...
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http://koranteng.blogspot.com/2005/04/on-xforms-xpath-css-brevity-syntax-and.html
RS: Radical Simplification
"Everything I ever wanted to say about the current state of software development in ~50 slides." -- Ryan Tomayko
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http://intertwingly.net/slides/2005/rs
"Everything I ever wanted to say about the current state of software development in ~50 slides." -- Ryan Tomayko
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http://intertwingly.net/slides/2005/rs
Ancient Wisdom: Leave the Decisions Up to Individuals
Open Space offers a process for decision making that is the exact opposite of that used in most Western organizations: A collective understanding emerges from conversations, and individua...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/04/08.html#a1104
Open Space offers a process for decision making that is the exact opposite of that used in most Western organizations: A collective understanding emerges from conversations, and individua...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/04/08.html#a1104
The Psychology Behind Common Investor Mistakes
An understanding of the psychological basis for these errors may help you avoid them and improve investment results. And in some cases, market-wide errors in perception or judgment can le...
anticipation, comprehension, contemplation, deviation, estimation, expectation, exploitation, formalization, indication, navigation, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/07/the_psychology_.html
An understanding of the psychological basis for these errors may help you avoid them and improve investment results. And in some cases, market-wide errors in perception or judgment can le...
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http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/07/the_psychology_.html
More on Tryability: It’s an Attention Thing
In a similar way that “usability” is a measurement of how usable something is, “tryability” is a measurement of the effort involved of trying something new.
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http://bokardo.com/archives/more-on-tryability
In a similar way that “usability” is a measurement of how usable something is, “tryability” is a measurement of the effort involved of trying something new.
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http://bokardo.com/archives/more-on-tryability
It will pay to be creative, nimble in the 'conceptual age'
The people who will do best in this economy are those who don't just take and give orders but also move smoothly between boundaries, like the technical guru who understands marketing or t...
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http://bostonworks.boston.com/globe/climb/archives/071005.shtml
The people who will do best in this economy are those who don't just take and give orders but also move smoothly between boundaries, like the technical guru who understands marketing or t...
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http://bostonworks.boston.com/globe/climb/archives/071005.shtml
Web 2.0: Children of Miners and Prostitutes
What is new is a burgeoning awareness of all this, as if people are suddenly realizing that, quite without expecting it, the future had grown up around them.
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http://www.understandingxml.com/archives/2005/06/web_20_when_aja.html
What is new is a burgeoning awareness of all this, as if people are suddenly realizing that, quite without expecting it, the future had grown up around them.
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http://www.understandingxml.com/archives/2005/06/web_20_when_aja.html
Abstraction levels in Web document formats
Documents on the Web should strive to retain information at a high enough level of abstraction to preserve device-independence and accessibility.
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http://people.opera.com/howcome/2000/PODDP
Documents on the Web should strive to retain information at a high enough level of abstraction to preserve device-independence and accessibility.
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http://people.opera.com/howcome/2000/PODDP
Why generic XML on the web is a bad idea
Using XML or even RDF serialized as XML you can describe your content much better and in far more detail [than in HTML], but there is no search engine out there that will understand you.
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http://annevankesteren.nl/2005/05/generic-xml
Using XML or even RDF serialized as XML you can describe your content much better and in far more detail [than in HTML], but there is no search engine out there that will understand you.
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http://annevankesteren.nl/2005/05/generic-xml
Freakonomics and Complexity
Freakonomics [...] challenges any assumptions about causal relationships (since those assumptions may be oversimplifying complex systems as merely complicated ones), and looks for the pat...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/07/25.html#a1221
Freakonomics [...] challenges any assumptions about causal relationships (since those assumptions may be oversimplifying complex systems as merely complicated ones), and looks for the pat...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/07/25.html#a1221
No Learning Curve as the Most Important Feature of a Web App
If I can start using an application immediately, and find it useful, then I’m a customer. The fact that I don’t have to install anything is great, but it doesn’t show the value of t...
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http://bokardo.com/archives/no-learning-curve-important-feature
If I can start using an application immediately, and find it useful, then I’m a customer. The fact that I don’t have to install anything is great, but it doesn’t show the value of t...
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http://bokardo.com/archives/no-learning-curve-important-feature
Social Network Analysis: What to Map
Organization needs to look beyond the objective quantitative attributes of network links (the frequency of connections) and survey you and everyone else in the organization to [understand...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/08/11.html#a1240
Organization needs to look beyond the objective quantitative attributes of network links (the frequency of connections) and survey you and everyone else in the organization to [understand...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/08/11.html#a1240
Is it Time to Shift Strategy?
The best companies at weathering fundamental industry upheaval are those that spot and act on early warning signs
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http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4894&t=innovation
The best companies at weathering fundamental industry upheaval are those that spot and act on early warning signs
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http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4894&t=innovation
Don’t take your memes to town
People’s ability to innovate is improving and that seems to come about by accepting Web thinking as much as any recent improvement in the toolchain. [...] Adapt your business or technol...
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http://lesscode.org/2005/08/07/dont-take-your-memes-to-town
People’s ability to innovate is improving and that seems to come about by accepting Web thinking as much as any recent improvement in the toolchain. [...] Adapt your business or technol...
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http://lesscode.org/2005/08/07/dont-take-your-memes-to-town
No. Really. It's not *about* the technology.
APIs facilitate openness, but they're meaningless if your organization doesn't have the conceptual underpinnings to take advantage of it. And while the "logic" of Web 2.0 might be baked i...
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http://www.peterme.com/archives/000563.html
APIs facilitate openness, but they're meaningless if your organization doesn't have the conceptual underpinnings to take advantage of it. And while the "logic" of Web 2.0 might be baked i...
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http://www.peterme.com/archives/000563.html
Why engines and components are not evil but distracting
High-level components are a mirage: By the time they become interesting, their fitting will require more work than creating something from scratch.
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http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/articles/2005/11/11/why-engines-and-components-are-not-evil-bu...
High-level components are a mirage: By the time they become interesting, their fitting will require more work than creating something from scratch.
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http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/articles/2005/11/11/why-engines-and-components-are-not-evil-bu...
Change of vision
A change of vision can, at its best, achieve something loftier than a theory. It can usher in a whole climate of thinking, in which many exciting and testable theories are born, and unima...
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http://jilltxt.net/?p=807
A change of vision can, at its best, achieve something loftier than a theory. It can usher in a whole climate of thinking, in which many exciting and testable theories are born, and unima...
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http://jilltxt.net/?p=807
It Takes Varied Reiterations to Force Alien Concepts Upon Reluctant Minds
in criticizing public policy proposals using economics, the economists must first and foremost treat stated ends as given and then assess the appropriateness of the chosen means in achiev...
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http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2006/01/it_takes_varied.html
in criticizing public policy proposals using economics, the economists must first and foremost treat stated ends as given and then assess the appropriateness of the chosen means in achiev...
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http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2006/01/it_takes_varied.html
On Web Standards
The most important standards on the Web are not technological, they’re social. They are the standards that software and web sites need to reach before people find something useful.
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http://bokardo.com/archives/on-web-standards
The most important standards on the Web are not technological, they’re social. They are the standards that software and web sites need to reach before people find something useful.
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http://bokardo.com/archives/on-web-standards
Now, there's an idea!
[Sociology is] a discipline in search of a purpose; [Sociology could be] a humanistic social science that investigates social reality, discerns sociological principles, and then tells peo...
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http://socinsight.blogspot.com/2006/01/now-theres-idea-from-list-me-talking.html
[Sociology is] a discipline in search of a purpose; [Sociology could be] a humanistic social science that investigates social reality, discerns sociological principles, and then tells peo...
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http://socinsight.blogspot.com/2006/01/now-theres-idea-from-list-me-talking.html
Evolution of Ideas
Our observations of what seems to be working and what seems to be not working have finally changed the way we think about the world. I think we’re just getting used to the Web and the i...
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http://bokardo.com/archives/evolution-of-ideas
Our observations of what seems to be working and what seems to be not working have finally changed the way we think about the world. I think we’re just getting used to the Web and the i...
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http://bokardo.com/archives/evolution-of-ideas
Innovating by asking why
Things are the way they are for a reason, and it is essential to understand that reason before trying to institute a change. [This] opens up the more interesting question: If we stopped d...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/categories/businessInnovation/2006/03/19.html#a1471
Things are the way they are for a reason, and it is essential to understand that reason before trying to institute a change. [This] opens up the more interesting question: If we stopped d...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/categories/businessInnovation/2006/03/19.html#a1471
Triumph of the Individual
Whatever the topic -- war, economic growth, government regulation -- the only way to achieve genuine understanding of what's going on is to trace all actions back to the individuals who t...
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http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=032306D
Whatever the topic -- war, economic growth, government regulation -- the only way to achieve genuine understanding of what's going on is to trace all actions back to the individuals who t...
comprehension, coordination, execution, explanation, formalization, institutionalization, interaction, observation, orchestration, parallelization, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=032306D
Crash course in learning theory
Teaching people to do what you do is one of the best ways we know to grow an audience--an audience of users you want to help.
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http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/01/crash_course_in.html
Teaching people to do what you do is one of the best ways we know to grow an audience--an audience of users you want to help.
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http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/01/crash_course_in.html
I blog, therefore I think.
Supporting and nurturing reflective learners, who respond to what they read by writing stuff and allowing others to comment, refining their own thoughts accordingly, requires more than th...
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http://edcompblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/i-blog-therefore-i-think.html
Supporting and nurturing reflective learners, who respond to what they read by writing stuff and allowing others to comment, refining their own thoughts accordingly, requires more than th...
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http://edcompblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/i-blog-therefore-i-think.html
Diplomates in school psychology: Architects of effective learning
One major reason [for the lack of success in improving school education] may be the lack of knowledge about how effective learning takes place, the variables that influence learning, and ...
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3673/is_199907/ai_n8857575
One major reason [for the lack of success in improving school education] may be the lack of knowledge about how effective learning takes place, the variables that influence learning, and ...
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3673/is_199907/ai_n8857575
Unconscious Decision Making
For complicated decisions, people lack the cognitive tools to accurately choose the best option, and the extra attention they spend on the decisionmaking process causes them to assign too...
comprehension, deliberation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.micromotives.com/2006/04/unconscious-decision-making
For complicated decisions, people lack the cognitive tools to accurately choose the best option, and the extra attention they spend on the decisionmaking process causes them to assign too...
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http://www.micromotives.com/2006/04/unconscious-decision-making
Legislate Or Educate?
The reason this DOPA legislation has a chance is that so few people and so few teachers understand the value of these technology resources or even know what they are so they might not put...
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http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=80
The reason this DOPA legislation has a chance is that so few people and so few teachers understand the value of these technology resources or even know what they are so they might not put...
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http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=80
Conversations and content creation
It can be exciting to READ the web, but it is immensely more motivating and thrilling to WRITE the web. Just as we need students to READ THE WORD, we need them to READ THE WORLD.
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http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/05/17/conversations-and-content-creation
It can be exciting to READ the web, but it is immensely more motivating and thrilling to WRITE the web. Just as we need students to READ THE WORD, we need them to READ THE WORLD.
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http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/05/17/conversations-and-content-creation
The Synthesizing Leader
The ability to decide what information to heed, what to ignore, and how to organize and communicate that which we judge to be important is becoming a core competence for those living in t...
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http://www.thepracticeofleadership.net/2006/03/11/the-synthesizing-leader
The ability to decide what information to heed, what to ignore, and how to organize and communicate that which we judge to be important is becoming a core competence for those living in t...
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http://www.thepracticeofleadership.net/2006/03/11/the-synthesizing-leader
The Mechanisms of Online Emergence
Once people do finally comprehend and get comfortable with the new generation of tools it becomes very difficult to stop them. [These ratchet technologies are] not intuitive to those of ...
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http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/index.php/faculty_amcafee_v3/the_mechanisms_of_online_em...
Once people do finally comprehend and get comfortable with the new generation of tools it becomes very difficult to stop them. [These ratchet technologies are] not intuitive to those of ...
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http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/index.php/faculty_amcafee_v3/the_mechanisms_of_online_em...
The myth of "keeping up"
You can't keep up. There is no way. And trying to keep up will probably just make you dumber.You can never be current on everything you think you should be.
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http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/04/the_myth_of_kee.html
You can't keep up. There is no way. And trying to keep up will probably just make you dumber.You can never be current on everything you think you should be.
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http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/04/the_myth_of_kee.html
The Opportunity Cost of Economics Education
It is that many of their professors may have only a tenuous grasp of [fundamental economic concepts], since they, too, took encyclopedic introductory courses, followed by advanced courses...
comprehension, education, explanation, internalization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/business/01scene.html?ex=1283227200&en=178537355ee405f1&ei...
It is that many of their professors may have only a tenuous grasp of [fundamental economic concepts], since they, too, took encyclopedic introductory courses, followed by advanced courses...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/business/01scene.html?ex=1283227200&en=178537355ee405f1&ei...
Teaching Economics
It's one thing to cram supply-and-demand analysis into students' short-term memory. It's quite another to get them to think like economists when they see a real-world issue.
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http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2006/04/teaching_econom.html
It's one thing to cram supply-and-demand analysis into students' short-term memory. It's quite another to get them to think like economists when they see a real-world issue.
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http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2006/04/teaching_econom.html
Academics as Public Intellectuals
if you cannot explain economics to the general public in 700 words or less perhaps you don't really know economics.
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http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2006/04/academics_as_pu.html
if you cannot explain economics to the general public in 700 words or less perhaps you don't really know economics.
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http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2006/04/academics_as_pu.html
REST vs API
At some point, you need to question the wisdom of having an API which abstracts away that which is important.
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http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/07/22/REST-vs-API
At some point, you need to question the wisdom of having an API which abstracts away that which is important.
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http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/07/22/REST-vs-API
The Impotence of (Most) Information
Information has meaning only when we have enough context [so] that this information enables us to live better lives, either by better understanding why things are the way they are, or by ...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2006/06/02.html#a1545
Information has meaning only when we have enough context [so] that this information enables us to live better lives, either by better understanding why things are the way they are, or by ...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2006/06/02.html#a1545
Knowledge behaviours and information literacy
The value point is now the ability to create and maintain an accurate image of what's happening and what really exists. This isn't possible through a data base. It is possible through net...
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http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/archives/002484.html
The value point is now the ability to create and maintain an accurate image of what's happening and what really exists. This isn't possible through a data base. It is possible through net...
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http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/archives/002484.html
Blog On
The educators keen enough to take time out of a busy term, grappling with common report expectations and surely, surely the light will click on as it has for me and the edublogosphere wil...
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http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/05/31/blog-on
The educators keen enough to take time out of a busy term, grappling with common report expectations and surely, surely the light will click on as it has for me and the edublogosphere wil...
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http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/05/31/blog-on
The IS-LM Model vs the IS-MP model
These two models are alternative presentations of the same set of ideas. The key issue in deciding which approach to prefer is not theoretical or empirical but pedagogical.
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http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/05/is-lm-model.html
These two models are alternative presentations of the same set of ideas. The key issue in deciding which approach to prefer is not theoretical or empirical but pedagogical.
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Scientists Have Identified Basic Principles of Communication
How do we succeed in putting our ideas into words, so that another person can understand them? This complex undertaking involves translating an idea into a one-dimensional sequence, a str...
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http://www.newswise.com/p/articles/view/520308
How do we succeed in putting our ideas into words, so that another person can understand them? This complex undertaking involves translating an idea into a one-dimensional sequence, a str...
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Stories Teachers Tell One Another
Those teachers with the most clearly articulated stories of the process are those who have not let go of the past. They tell the old story with clarity and certainty while those learning ...
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http://hent.blogspot.com/2006/05/stories-teachers-tell-one-another.html
Those teachers with the most clearly articulated stories of the process are those who have not let go of the past. They tell the old story with clarity and certainty while those learning ...
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http://hent.blogspot.com/2006/05/stories-teachers-tell-one-another.html
E-Knowledge & I-Knowledge
Informal learning is the pathway to I-knowledge. I-knowledge is what you decide upon after dumping odds and ends into your brain's blender. Demonstration of performance is the only viable...
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http://internettime.com/wordpress/?p=638
Informal learning is the pathway to I-knowledge. I-knowledge is what you decide upon after dumping odds and ends into your brain's blender. Demonstration of performance is the only viable...
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The relevance of the learning profession
Enabling learning is no longer about disseminating good content. Enabling learning is about being a learner yourself, sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm and then taking a back seat.
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http://www.jarche.com/?p=795
Enabling learning is no longer about disseminating good content. Enabling learning is about being a learner yourself, sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm and then taking a back seat.
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http://www.jarche.com/?p=795
There's No Such Thing as a Learning Object
We learn by doing. We consider. We compare. We measure, discuss, debate, critique, test, and explore. We try, fail, and try again. Learning is an activity. It's a process. Given this unde...
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http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=opinion&article=74-1
We learn by doing. We consider. We compare. We measure, discuss, debate, critique, test, and explore. We try, fail, and try again. Learning is an activity. It's a process. Given this unde...
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Tobin and the New Keynesians
Macro theory can be confusing. It is hard for students to see how the different pieces fit together and how different points of view emerge. One way to approach the subject is by taking a...
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http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/06/tobin-and-new-keynesians.html
Macro theory can be confusing. It is hard for students to see how the different pieces fit together and how different points of view emerge. One way to approach the subject is by taking a...
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http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/06/tobin-and-new-keynesians.html