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13 Learning Theories for e-learning

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What’s going on in there? This apparently!

New Scientist 9 February 2013 Mind Maths by Colin Barras

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Research

I’ll be through this in 24 hours. 48 if I keep pausing to add notes to the highlights, longer if I download and read any references … and longer still if I apply it directly to the first tutor marked

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To teach is to nurture and the best metaphor for the mind is to see it as a garden

Uta Firth wants knowledge of the brain to inform education the way knowledge of the body informs medicine.

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Could blogging be seen as a scholarly activity?

Blogging developed alongside the web in the mid 1990s and has its routes in keeping a diary, or a writer’s journal, even notes kept by students.

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All you need to know about blogging that you can’t be bothered to research for yourself because you’re too busy blogging …

Fig. 1. Passion at work: Blogging practices of knowledge workers (2009) by Lilia Efimova Doctoral thesis published by Novay. I’ve come to this thesis for a number of reasons: I’ve been blogging since September 1999, sometimes obsessively so, such as

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When reading we need a perspective of what has been and what is coming up.

When reading we get a perspective of what has been and what is coming up.

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The Gutenberg Galaxy – first thoughts, from the first pages

Fig. 1. The Gutenberg Galaxy – Marshall McLuhan (courtesy of Amazon and a US bookseller) Like visiting a library, having a book as an object in my hand, a singular artifact rather than its substance digitised, feels like a visit

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The memory is the mind process happening in your brain, it can never be the artefact that plays back footage of an experience.

Fig. 1. Bill Gates featured in a 1985 copy of a regional computer magazine In the introduction to ‘Total Recall’ Bill Gates wonders when he and Gordon Bell first met. Was in 1983 or 1982. What was the context? Can

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The power to remember and the need to forget

The power to remember and the need to forget

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