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Tag: control

We don’t always know what we want

Jan 5, 2024

in AI, Note

control, desire, humans, people, values

One obvious property of humans, if you think about it, is that they don’t always know what they want. Stuart Russel (2019). Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control. This can make it hard to specify in advance what our goals are.
Learning is not linear…

May 16, 2023

in Learning, Note, Teaching

control, timetable

And yet, we still do everything we can to control the learning process, driven more by the needs of the timetable, than by any desire to privilege students needs.
HELTASA conference, 2011 – day 2

Dec 1, 2011

in Conference, Education, Learning, Research, Technology

Cape Peninsula University of Technology, case-based learning, cbl, collaborative groupwork, community of inquiry, conceptual threshold crossing, conflict management, control, conversational framework, cput, discourse, disruption, disruptive technology, emotional resilience, epistemology, garrison, gilly salmon, groupwork, hard technology, heltasa, heltasa11, heltasa2011, higher education learning and teaching association of south africa, interpretive boundaries, laurillard, learning events, learning management system, liberalism, lms, nelson mandela metropolitan university, online learning, online presence, Ontology, pbl, piet naude, port elizabeth, postgraduate supervision, power, problem based learning, public good, scientism, small group learning, social presence, soft technology, student wellbeing, teaching presence, transformative change, troublesome encounters, utilitarianism

Explaining, naming and crossing border in Southern African higher education Prof Piet Naude This was one of the most challenging presentations I’ve ever listened to. I didn’t agree with a lot of what Prof Naude said, but he made me question my own beliefs and biases. Ontology: language is the house of reality (language…
Mozilla Open Education course: seminar 6

May 7, 2009

in Education, Open access, Technology

africa, America, assessment, control, course, educators, Garin Fons Using, mozilla, MozOpenEdCourse, notes, open, open education, pedagogy, teacher, teaching, technology, wikis

I know that this is all out of sync but the audio for sessions 4 and 5 aren’t up yet and I haven’t had a chance to go through the slideshows yet. Today’s session was about the actual practice of teaching, using “open” as a framework. Here are my notes: Session 6 – Open pedagogy…