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#TwistedTropes 26. Whistler's angry mother

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So while her famous painter son was swanning around Paris drinking himself under the table with the likes of Claude Monet , Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet , she was at home making sure his shirts were pressed. Maslow's awkward hierarchy 25. I bet Whistler's mother could tell you a story or two about her famous son. Unported License.

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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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In two minds

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New York: Oxford University Press. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Dual Coding theory explains why multi-media forms of education have been so successful in the past, but alternative cognitive processing theories that feature later in this series challenge this view. Reference Paivio, A. 1986) Mental Representations.

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Learning, making and powerful ideas

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Brighton: Harvester Press. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. The challenge for educators now is - how can we incorporate more learning through making, and less teaching from the front, into our lessons? Reference Papert, S. 1980) Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas. Previous posts in this series: 1.

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Stage by stage

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London: Fontana Press. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. For further reading on these criticisms, see Donaldson (1978). Reference Donaldson, M. 1978) Children''s Minds. Previous posts in this series: 1. Anderson ACT-R Cognitive Architecture 2. Argyris Double Loop Learning 3. Bandura Social Learning Theory 4. Koffka Gestalt theory 21.

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Design for life

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Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Sudoku puzzles with fewer spaces completed are harder to solve that those with more spaces completed. * The answer is neither left nor right - the Queen faces forward on the note. Further Reading Norman, D. 1990) The Design of Everyday Things. Argyris Double Loop Learning 3.

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Our mutual friends

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New York: New York University Press. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. When they finally meet in person, they feel they already know each other, even though their relationship has been mediated through text based messaging technology. But that is the subject matter for another blog post. References Jenkins, H. Surowiecki, J.