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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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JUNE 4, 2019

I posed some questions for educators to address, and proposed that much of our technology in recent years has been used to connect and to communicate. When people connect using technology, they seek out commonalities and look for shared experiences. I call this connected pedagogy. 1954) Motivation and Personality. Wheeler, S.

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AUGUST 17, 2012

the use of social technology is much less determined by the tool itself; when we use a network, the most import asset we get is access to one another. Think of Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of human needs (1954), and note that 'belonging' to a group and gaining respect from others are fundamental to his theory. References Maslow, A.

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MARCH 13, 2018

Image from Pixabay Flawed though it is, Maslow's theory of motivation highlights at least one important theme: We are social beings and we need to know that we belong. Young people's lives are predominantly mediated through technology because they want to connect, belong, engage with their friends. Unported License.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2014

A video entitled Applying theory to the classroom by Alice Sheppard and Laura Mayo , incorporating Maslow''s theory with the spreading activation memory theory of Collins and Quillian. 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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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

The user interface on most VLE/LMS technologies is often too complex for students, who spend much more time trying to navigate and discover content than they do actually learning that content. An example of transparent design is where the technology interface is so familiar or simple that students need to expend no mental effort using it.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Norman The design of everyday things Photo by Steve Wheeler Learning, making and powerful ideas by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26. Merizow Transformative Learning 28. Unported License.

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