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Connected pedagogy: Shared minds

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It's comforting to know that others are experiencing the same doubts and difficulties as we are, or that we can all work together to succeed in a common task. We learn best when we feel we belong, and we feel more comfortable when we perceive psychological safety (Maslow, 1954). Charlotte, NC: Information Age. Unported License.

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#TwistedTropes 27. Washington's wooden teeth

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Where did this information come from? It makes you wonder what other inaccurate, incomplete or misleading information might still lurking around inside the covers of school textbooks? The final bit of information is perhaps the strangest - his favourite set of dinner manglers was made predominantly from dog teeth.

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#TwistedTrope 29. Santa's marginalised reindeer

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It was only one Christmas Eve , when Santa was about to embark on a transglobal flight, and was informed by air traffic control of deteriorating atmospheric visibility, that he decided, purely for health and safety reasons to press the ethnic minority member of his team into service. Maslow's awkward hierarchy 25. Unported License.

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Video for assessment

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They are there to confirm the level the student has achieved, but more importantly, they should be used to inform students how they should proceed to achieve higher grades next time. Photo by Popperipop on Wikimedia Commons Video for assessment by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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In two minds

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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. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Unported License.

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Design for life

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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. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Unported License.

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Stage by stage

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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. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Unported License.