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Design for life

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In this post, I explore Donald Norman''s ideas around the design of every day objects. This should not so much be considered as a theory, but is a useful perspective on design and human perception. He argued that what we see is directly perceived, and that we extract meaning from the shape and design of the object we are looking at.

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Going the extra mile

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In this post, I''m revisiting a well known and heavily used motivational theory - Maslow''s Hierarchy of Human Needs. The theory Just about everyone working in education and training has heard of Abraham Maslow and his hierarchy of needs. Most versions of Maslow''s Hierarchy are represented as pyramids. Reference Maslow, A.

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Going the extra mile

Learning with e's

In this post, I'm revisiting a well known and heavily used motivational theory - Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs. The theory Just about everyone working in education and training has heard of Abraham Maslow and his hierarchy of needs. Most versions of Maslow's Hierarchy are represented as pyramids. Reference Maslow, A.

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In two minds

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Festinger Social Comparison Theory 11. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Norman The design of everyday things 31. Papert Constructionism Photo by Steve Wheeler Graphic by Instructional Design In two minds by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning, making and powerful ideas

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My last post explored Donald Norman''s ideas around perception and the design of every day objects. Festinger Social Comparison Theory 11. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education.

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Stage by stage

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Festinger Social Comparison Theory 11. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Norman The design of everyday things 31. Craik and Lockhart Levels of Processing 6. Csíkszentmihályi Flow Theory 7. Dewey Experiential Learning 8. Engeström Activity Theory 9. Ebbinghaus Learning and Forgetting Curves 10. Gibson Affordances Theory 14.

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Self fulfilling prophecies

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Festinger Social Comparison Theory 11. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Norman The design of everyday things 31. Craik and Lockhart Levels of Processing 6. Csíkszentmihályi Flow Theory 7. Dewey Experiential Learning 8. Engeström Activity Theory 9. Ebbinghaus Learning and Forgetting Curves 10. Gibson Affordances Theory 14.