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DECEMBER 6, 2019

Photo from Wikimedia Commons Everything was awkward about the famous psychologist Abraham Maslow. As a young man, Maslow had very few friends, so he made books his companions, married one of his cousins by accident, and then spent the rest of his life trying to discover the meaning of life. Lucifer's idiotic fall 20.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

It's also common knowledge that he wore false teeth. It only goes to show that knowledge is only as good as its source, and that it depends entirely upon the gatekeepers of knowledge as to what actually gets into textbooks. Maslow's awkward hierarchy 25. The same could be said for school curricula.

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JANUARY 1, 2020

Knowledge is always changing , evolving, but the lessons stay the same. Maslow's awkward hierarchy 25. Santa's marginalised reindeer Halley's boring comet by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 That's not teaching, it's torture.

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AUGUST 31, 2014

The previous post featured Abraham Maslow''s Hierarchy of Human Needs. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs Photo by Sid Mosdell on Flickr The point of no return by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Previous posts in this series are all linked below. Unported License.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Things are changing, and so is the nature of knowledge. No longer is it enough for teachers to transmit knowledge to students - much of it quickly goes out of date. I also challenged Maslow's hierarchy model of motivational needs, and Neil Fleming's VAK modality model of learning approaches. Unported License.

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MAY 4, 2016

You know, the fact that each of us can only learn so much on our own, but with a More Knowledgeable Other person by our side, we can learn that much more. Photo by William Murphy on Flickr #LearningIs social by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Norman took this idea and argued that knowledge not only resides in our heads, but also in the world around us. That is, not all knowledge for skilled actions needs to be inside your head. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. It can also be present in the design of the objects you use to perform the skill. Unported License.

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