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Curiosity, cognition and content

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We could argue that the majority of what we 'know' derives from our ability to be able to think, to reason, to reflect, to ask questions - our higher cognitive processes. In the digital age where knowledge seems to be increasingly democratised , how can we be sure that knowledge is not adulterated, or contaminated with false evidence?

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Maker pedagogy

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More and more teachers are beginning to realise that creating environments and possibilities where students make things is a very powerful pedagogy. Seymour Papert ''s work on constructionism outlines the cognitive gain that occurs when we create something new rather than simply repeat knowledge that has already been acquired.

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Digital reflections

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This could be a conversation, an image or video, or some other digital artefact. At a little higher up in the manipulation spectrum are archive technologies , which can be used to store, organise and document the digital artefacts that have been previously captured. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 22 (2), 213-230.

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

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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). Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 17 (3), 183-193.

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Video: The power and the story

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As politely as I could, I explained to him that making his students sit through a full 90 minutes of video was not particularly good pedagogy. The first is cognitive load - i.e. the amount of information we can process and absorb through our primary senses; in this case, our audio and visual channels. Cognitive Science 12, 257-285.

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Our digital future 11: AI enhanced course design

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In many parts of the world this won't happen at all, usually because of what has been called the digital divide. AI enhanced course design is supposedly the next big development in digital education. Unported License. The future of education, in all sectors, will be a marriage of convenience between teachers and technology.

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Learning first, technology second

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Ideas range from games based learning , to the use of social media and networking, to simpler approaches such as the use of digital cameras in art or data logging in science. There is nothing wrong with any of these approaches, provided they don''t get in the way of good pedagogy. Unported License. But that is the problem.