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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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The Shallows – Nicholas Carr – I’m about to give up after Chapter 3

In Chapter 3, ‘Tools of the mind’, after a potted history of maps (not cartography) and clocks (not horology), we get an equally potty view of the plastic mind and neuroscience. Carr is no neuroscientist – three decades ago he

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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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Why e-portfolios have their place in e-learning for retention and evaluation – that or get them blogging

How to use e-portfolios for retention and assessment of online students – that or they use a blog

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Email is a snowball fight, a wiki is a snowman … I guess a blog is an ice-sculpture

17th May 2011 I’m taking copious notes from Collaborative Learning in a Wiki Environment: Experiences from a software engineering course. Minocha and Thomas (2007) I made this note at the bottom of the third page: Email = snowball fight Wiki

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Life-Logging and the contents of my brain, your brain, easily accessed, shared and ameliorated (or just picked over?)

This fascinates me. When I started blogging in 1999 I called the blog ‘The Contents of My Brain’ as for a couple of years I’d been using an early version of Filemaker Pro offline (in Clarisworks) to assemble/catalogue everything I

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Two ways through the History of English – In Ten Minutes or Ten Days

My love of English received an adrenalin boost with the OU’s iTunes ‘History of English in 10 Minutes’.

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The History of English…in just a minute. Ten soundbites to make your ears curl (or should that be toes?) Or both? Times up!

Ten bite-sized comedic dashes through the history of English – just a minute each time!

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