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How to help every Child fulfil their Potential
Ever wondered why kids say they’re bored at school, or why they stop trying when the work gets harder? Educationalist Carol Dweck explains how the wrong kind of praise actually *harms* young people. This short video is essential viewing for … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Learning, Learning environmernt
Tagged childhood, Learning, learning environmernt
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The Learning Environment as a Chaotic and Complex Adaptive System
Thrivability is a novel concept describing the intention to go beyond sustainability, allowing a system to flourish. For a society or organization to be thrivable, educated, responsible acting agents are needed. Traditional education focuses on (efficient) reproduction of existing organised … Continue reading
Simulation-Based Learning Environments to Teach Complexity
While public-sector management problems are steeped in positivistic and socially constructed complexity, public management education in the management of complexity lags behind that of business schools, particularly in the application of simulation-based learning. This paper describes a Simulation-Based Learning Environment … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Complexity & education, Learning environmernt, Simulation
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Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking How College Students Learn
What do students learn in a traditional lecture-based physics class, and are there ways to teach them better? Cognitive scientists determined that people’s short-term memory is very limited – it can only process so much at once. A lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Learning environmernt, Learning to learn, Student
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The Role of the Educator
Historically, it has been impractical to break up the roles of the teacher. You need a certain scale even to have a separate person assigned as a librarian or an audio-visual coordinator. You need a much greater scale, not to … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Educational research, Educational system, Future learning, Learning environmernt, Systems, Teachers, Teaching
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Becoming a network learner: Towards a practice of freedom
Read Presentation/introduction of “why and how I became a Network Learner“, by Scott Leslie.
Posted in e-learning, Learning environmernt, Networked learning, Open learning, Ple/Pln, Web 2.0
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Handling complexity in learning environments: Theory and research
What do we mean when we say that “learning environments are increasingly complex”? What do we know about the cognitive processing that occurs during complex learning? How can we provide effective instructional support for students who must learn and apply … Continue reading
Posted in Complex knowledge, Complexity, Complexity & education, Complexity & learning, Complexity theory, Education, Educational research, Higher education, Learning environmernt, Learning spaces, Web 2.0
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