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#TwistedTropes 24: Maslow's awkward hierarchy

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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. Unported License.

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Video for assessment

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Here''s the process: Students are introduced to a new concept, presented with some basic content and guidelines, and asked to go away and research more deeply around their topic. They are then asked to create a video (or other form of presentation) and show it to their classmates. Unported License.

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The point of no return

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The previous post featured Abraham Maslow''s Hierarchy of Human Needs. Merizow also saw that experiencing a sense of alienation or disconnect could present opportunities for transformative learning experience if there was enough critical reflection. Unported License. Previous posts in this series are all linked below.

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Drive through learning

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Elements of his theory are present in Maslow''s more humanistic and learner-centred Hierarchy of Human Needs model. Although this is in itself a flawed and contetious model, Maslow''s hierarchy has been used to explain more compex motivational processes. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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(re)Designing learning in a digital world

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(re)Designing Learning Spaces for a Digital World View more presentations from Steve Wheeler My keynote speeches to academic staff at Massey University on the Palmerston North and Wellington campuses this week were accompanied by the slides above. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Design for life

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It can also be present in the design of the objects you use to perform the skill. 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. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Unported License.

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In two minds

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In a variety of experiments, it was found that people can generally process images faster than text, and can make quicker and smarter decisions when presented with pictures than they can with verbal instructions. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Unported License. Unported License. Merizow Transformative Learning 28.