Tag: Memory
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The remembering self and the experiencing self
How might significant aspects of health professions education change, if we discover that patients’ memories of their pain can’t be trusted?
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Weekly digest 34
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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My Physiopedia Plus courses on building skills for learning
In 2023 I put together a series of short courses for Physiopedia Plus, on the topic of building skills to support learning, which were published towards the end of the year. The stats (see image above) suggest that they’ve been well-received so far. Overview of all courses in the series, and here are the individual…
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Weekly digest (03-07 May 2021)
This is an experiment that I’m going to try for a while. Sometimes I come across articles that I think are interesting and would like to share – with a short comment – but which don’t warrant a full post. I’m going to try and aggregate these into a weekly digest that I’ll publish on…
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Comment: Magnus Carlsen’s mind-blowing memory
I enjoy watching people who are really good at what they do. This short video of Magnus Carlsen demonstrating his ability to remember outcomes and movement sequences from classic chess games is incredible. It’s also a great reminder that we all have this ability to remember; it’s just that people like Carlsen have spent a lot…
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T&L seminar with UCT Law Faculty
Earlier this year I was invited by Alan Rycroft at the UCT Law Faculty to give a presentation at a seminar on T&L. The seminar took place yesterday and I presented some research that I did in 2012 where we used Google Drive as an implementation platform for authentic learning. I’ve written about authentic learning before,…