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Maslow, Confucius and 3 keys to operate in Dragon land!

Origin Learning

Can Abraham Maslow have made a mistake? An address by Valerie Hoeks brings forth different perspectives and 3 lessons that are entrenched in the Chinese culture come to the fore. For those in China, harmony, the second lesson that pertains to building relations, symbolizes a preference to the smooth running of a society or group.

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#TwistedTropes 30. Halley's boring comet

Learning with e's

Actually, all of these questions are boring, because the comet is akin to certain lessons in school and university, where the teachers/lecturers annually repeat themselves word for word, or worse, simply read out the text from their boring slides. Knowledge is always changing , evolving, but the lessons stay the same.

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The point of no return

Learning with e's

The previous post featured Abraham Maslow''s Hierarchy of Human Needs. Teachers should therefore develop schemes of work and lessons that have elements of doubt and ill-structured problems for students to solve. Previous posts in this series are all linked below. Koffka Gestalt theory 21. Köhler Insight learning 22.

Cognitive 101
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Three Major Theories of Motivation that Massively Boost Engagement in Elearning Courses

Wizcabin

One of the most common is Maslow’s theory of needs which categorizes human needs into a 5-layered pyramid of priorities. Through this, Maslow explains that a person is motivated by either of these 5 categories of needs. Just like Maslow’s theory, there are several other theories; some better suited to specific fields of human life.

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Learning, making and powerful ideas

Learning with e's

From the simple playing in sand of reception children, right through to designing robots and helicopters in the final year of primary school, such activities can cover all curriculum subjects, and enliven lessons through problem based and project centred learning. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Reference Papert, S.

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Donald Clark on training departments…

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I argued that training is mired in old, faddish theory; Bloom, Gagne, Maslow, Kirkpatrick – train the trainer courses are still full of old behaviourist theory (killed stone dead by Chomsky in 1959) trapping us in 50 year old theories that holds the industry back. Neither has so-called ‘leadership’ training.

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It’s All About the Brand, ‘Bout the Brand…

Learning Rebels

Leadership does not want to hear about Kirkpatrick , Mager , Bloom’s , Maslow , Gagne , or other learning processes or methodology. Leadership does not require a vocabulary lesson or a course on learning psychology and methodologies. Trust me on this. They want to hear about how you are going to support them.