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Presence Pedagogy: Needs Some More Dimensions

Kapp Notes

The other day, I discovered an interesting article, Presence Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning in a 3D Virtual Immersive World , which describes an educational approach for conducting a learning event in a virtual immersive environment. Flying around in VirtualU: Sense of space is important in virtual learning environments.

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Learning as dialogue

Learning with e's

Later, Piaget, Inhelder and others were responsible for introducing a cognitive version of learning theory which held that children were ''solo scientists'' who constructed their own meaning through exploration of their environment. dialogue education learning pedagogy social learning teaching teaching machines ZPD' Unported License.

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Learning first, technology second

Learning with e's

There is nothing wrong with any of these approaches, provided they don''t get in the way of good pedagogy. The main problem with most MLEs is that they are so complex to use, students often spend more time and cognitive energy working out how to get to the content, than they do actually learning. But that is the problem.

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with e's

Personal technologies are thought to enable self-regulation at a number of levels, including the ‘object’ and ‘meta’ levels of learning, supporting maintenance, adaptation, monitoring and control of a variety of higher level cognitive processes (Nelson & Narens, 1990). 2008) Does a community of learners foster self-regulated learning?

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I store my knowledge with my friends

Learning with e's

I'm at Colchester Institute on Friday to present a workshop entitled: Communities, Spaces and Pedagogies for the Digital Age. Distributed cognition is a multiplier - as some of the exercises I will facilitate will demonstrate.

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Initial reflections on Slow Learning #change11

Clark Quinn

Idealistically, I would like communities to become more other-supporting, but I think such a system would have desirable properties in terms of developing people over time. There’s some randomness in our cognitive architecture, and I’d like to see some similar probabilistic behavior in the system recommendations.

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Words in mind

Learning with e's

Psychologists and cognitive scientists have offered a number of useful theories that aid our understanding of learning. The last post in this series featured the stages of cognitive development model proposed by Jean Piaget. The last post in this series featured the stages of cognitive development model proposed by Jean Piaget.