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In two minds

Learning with e's

The Theory Paivio''s dual coding theory considers the way we process verbal and non-verbal information. Visual and verbal information are processed in different ways along discrete pathways in the brain, and these are thought to create different mental representations. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26.

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Design for life

Learning with e's

How it can be applied in education As Norman suggests, when information to perform a task is present within the design of an object, the need to learn it is reduced. Ill-defined problems offer less parameters/information and have less information in their design. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26.

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Stage by stage

Learning with e's

Piaget believed that children developed along these lines by exploring their world more or less independently, assimilating new information, and accommodating it into previously formed knowledge, to construct their mental models of the world, which he identified as schemas. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26.

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Words in mind

Learning with e's

To retrieve an item from long term memory, the brain traverses a large network of information. Sometimes, although the information is in long term memory, it cannot be accessed. Spreading Activation is a primer theory - it explains how we create shortcuts by strongly connecting information. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27.

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Reflections from May trip to Italy, UK, and Netherlands

Jay Cross

On another day I led a masterclass in informal learning and 702010 for a high-tech company and its customers in Utrecht. A shadow form of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs kicks in. In both Rome and Utrecht, I had planned to talk about informal learning. COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE. More on this later. Affordable, too.