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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Brain Plasticity & Cognitive Abilities

Learning Visions

Thursday, May 24, 2007 Brain Plasticity & Cognitive Abilities Ive just read Richard Nantels post The Ultimate Pretest in which he talks about his interest in brain plasticity. Is cognitive ability plastic? And what is cognitive ability, really? Getting an Informal M.Ed Getting an Informal M.Ed We got Wii!

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Another take on Cognitive Load Theory

Learning Visions

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Another take on Cognitive Load Theory The authors of the Eide Neurolearning Blog weigh in on recent research and articles on cognitive load (including the death of Powerpoint that have been talked about here ). the researchers still underestimate the diversity of their audience."

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Cognitive Flexibility Theory & Multiple Representations

Learning Visions

Wednesday, May 09, 2007 Cognitive Flexibility Theory & Multiple Representations After reading Clarks comment on my posting from yesterday , Ive been looking into Cognitive Flexibility Theory (Spiro), trying to better understand the notion of "multiple representations." (You Getting an Informal M.Ed Getting an Informal M.Ed

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Collaborative Modelling in AR (and VR)

Clark Quinn

A number of years ago, when we were at the height of the hype about Virtual Worlds (computer rendered 3D social worlds, e.g. Second Life), I was thinking about the affordances. There was also the overall cognitive and processing overhead inherent to the worlds, but these were a given to use the worlds at all.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Getting an Informal M.Ed

Learning Visions

Wednesday, May 09, 2007 Getting an Informal M.Ed Posted by Cammy Bean at 2:33 PM Labels: informal learning , instructional design 1 comments: Cathy Moore said. I think its a great idea to learn ID informally, while you apply it to the real world. Getting an Informal M.Ed Getting an Informal M.Ed Thanks for helping.

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Teaching Higher Order Skills in a Virtual World

Kapp Notes

How do you get learners to engage in higher order cognitive skills (e.g., Running a business in something like Second Life is inexpensive and better way to teach business concepts than having students run an actual business in Real Life with big bucks. Students standing outside of green building on MSIT island.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Kineos August Rapid e-Learning Newsletter

Learning Visions

Dr. Dror is a cognitive scientist, who urges instructional designers to keep the focus on the learner rather than the learning materials and to design the learning experience to the human brain. Dr. Drors bottom line: to optimize the learning experience, learning designers must understand the cognitive systems in the brain.