Play to Learn
Thinking more about Friston’s Free Energy Principle and the implications for learning design prompted me to think about play. What drives us to learn, and […]
Clear about the concept
I went to hear a talk the other day. It was about competency-based education (CBE) for organizations. Ostensibly. And, while I’m now affiliated with IBSTPI, […]
Sub-symbolic and Situated
At the time that the connectionist folks were working on neural nets, another similar approach was genetic algorithms. Both were working in a different way […]
Lucky on Foundations
I was thinking about my next directions, and it led to me to think a bit about my foundations. And I realized I’ve been very […]
Direct Instruction or Guided Discovery
Recently, colleague Jos Arets of the 70:20:10 institute wrote a post promoting evidence-based work. And I’m a big fan, both of his work and the […]
Theory or Research?
There’s a lot of call for evidence-based methods (as mentioned yesterday): L&D, learning design, and more. And this is a good thing. But…do you want […]
Reconciling Cognitions and Contexts
In my past two posts, I first looked at cognitions (situated, distributed, social) by contexts (think, work, and learn), and then the reverse. And, having […]
Contexts By Cognitions
So, in my last post, I talked about exploring the links between cognitions on the one hand (situated, distributed, social), and contexts (aligning with how […]
Cognitions By Contexts
I have, in the past, talked about the three cognitions: situated, distributed, and social. Similarly, I talk about aligning with the contexts: how we think, […]
Cognition external
I was thinking a bit about distributed cognition, and recognized that there as a potentially important way to tease that apart. And I’ll talk it […]
A very insightful framework
Jane Hart has just come up with something new and, to me, intriguing. Ok, so she’s a colleague from the Internet Time Alliance, and I’ve […]
How (Not) To Write Marketing Posts
You’ve seen my takedowns of various posts by now, and the flurry of fluff continues. It seems like there’s some baseline social media marketing course […]
