Tag: learning
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My new project: Thinking in public
What would a serious approach to knowledge work and academic productivity look like? How do knowledge workers manage information as part of a framework for turning it into something valuable? These are the kinds of questions I’m trying to explore with this new project.
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For students: The Learning to Learn project
Earlier this year I launched a small project in my department, called Learning to Learn. The aim of the project is to share and discuss with students a range of evidence-based techniques that improve their ability to learn. I realised that, for many of my students, learning was something that they were simply expected to…
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Seven principles of learning
This is a short summary of a post by Scott Young that itself summarises the learning principles presented in Why don’t students like school, by Daniel Willingham. I’ve added the book to my reading list based on Scott’s recommendation. Here are the principles from Scott’s post (with some of my own comments in italics): Factual…
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Training students for jobs that don’t exist yet. Or not.
The top 10 in demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004. We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet, using technologies that haven’t been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet. It takes some work to find out that the claim is not true.…
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Knowledge is more important than money
Those who work really hard throughout their career but don’t take time out of their schedule to constantly learn will be the new “at-risk” group. They risk remaining stuck on the bottom rung of global competition, and they risk losing their jobs to automation, just as blue-collar workers did between 2000 and 2010 when robots…
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How people learn
Source: Downes, S. (2018). How people learn. A nice collection of quotes in a slideshow, taken from a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, that highlights the dynamic process of learning throughout the lifespan.
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adapting to constant change
The human work of tomorrow will not be based on competencies best-suited for machines, because creative work that is continuously changing cannot be replicated by machines or code. While machine learning may be powerful, connected human learning is novel, innovative, and inspired. Source: Jarche, H. (2018). adapting to constant change. A good post on why…
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Another Terrible Idea from Turnitin | Just Visiting
Allowing the proliferation of algorithmic surveillance as a substitution for human engagement and judgment helps pave the road to an ugly future where students spend more time interacting algorithms than instructors or each other. This is not a sound way to help writers develop robust and flexible writing practices. Source: Another Terrible Idea from Turnitin…
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Teaching, learning and risk
I’ve had these ideas bouncing around in my head for a week or so and finally have a few minutes to try and get them out. I’ve been wondering why changing practice – in higher education and the clinical context – is so hard, and one way that I think I can make some sense…
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Interrogating the mistakes
We tend to focus our attention on the things that students got right. This seems perfectly appropriate at first glance because we want to celebrate what they know. Their grades are reported in such a way as to highlight the number of questions answered correctly. The cut score (pass mark) is set based on what we…
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Accepting the default configuration
In almost every situation we come across in learning, we accept the default configuration. It’s not because we’re lazy but probably that we’re not even aware that alternative configurations exist. The first time this came to my attention was when I realised in the late 1990s that Windows was not the only computer operating system that…
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altPhysio | Creating value
This is the second post in a series of exploring what a next-generation physiotherapy school might look like. Many of the ideas are not fully formed and some have very little evidence to support them. This is OK. Push back is welcome. Here’s the second interview. Q: Now that you’ve provided the background and context for why…
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Psychology’s top 20 principles for enhancing teaching and learning
Every once in a while an article is published that you know is Important and that you should take Note of, and in this post I’m going to summarise a paper that I think fits into that category. It’s a recent publication in Mind, Brain and Education that attempts to summarise and explain the Top 20 principles of…
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Groupwork and introverts
I really enjoyed this presentation on TED, particularly this line: “… the transcendent power of solitude“. Being an introvert doesn’t mean someone who is shy or reluctant to engage with others. It describes a person who has a tendency to turn inward mentally, feeling more energized by time spent alone. As teachers who are preparing…
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Learning is difficult
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” Friedrich Nietzsche Learning how to do anything well takes time and often involves the achievement of small steps. When you’ve mastered a skill it’s often difficult to remember a time when you struggled to…
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Illich: “Universal education through schooling is not feasible”
Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on the style of present schools. Neither new attitudes of teachers toward their pupils nor the proliferation of educational hardware or software (in classroom or bedroom), nor finally the attempt to expand…
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Movies about teacher-student relationships
The untimely passing of Robin Williams a few weeks ago reminded me of an idea for a post that’s been on my mind for a while (apparently I’m not the only person who thought about this). I’ve always loved movies about teachers and students, and I wanted to share some of the ones that have…
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Principles of learning
I’ve been cleaning up my office over the past few days and came across a handout that I probably received at a T&L workshop sometime during the past year, and thought I’d post a summary of it here. There is a link on the document to this online version, although the hard copy that I…
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Interview: The use of technology-mediated teaching and learning in physiotherapy education
I was recently asked to do a short interview by Physiospot, on the use of technology-mediated teaching and learning in physiotherapy education. As it turns out, the bulk of the interview relates more specifically to a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, rather than the use of technology. However, I think that this makes it potentially…
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Are we preparing students for life?
The following is an excerpt from Tom Whitby’s post, Are we preparing students for life? Content in past decades was slow to change. Even as advances were made in science, history, geography, and literature, the world itself moved at a slower pace, so time and change were less critical. We had a print media that…