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Here are my slides and a brief description of my session and a couple of links of interest. The session was titled Instructional Design Today: What We Really Need to Know as Practitioners, Researchers, and Designers #tk11 Instructional Design Today: What We Really Need to Know as Practitioners, Researchers, and Designers View more presentations from […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Episodic memory is information stored in person’s long term memory that receives and stores information about temporally dated episodes or events and temporal-spatial relations among those events. In other words, episodic memory contains information about life experiences–information that is associated with a particular time or place. The information that you were in Philadelphia for New […]
Continue Reading →One of the problems with things that are well executived and flawlessly performed is that they tend to look too easy and, therefore, anyone thinks they can do it and, in reality, they can’t. Take for example, Shaun White’s performance on the second run at the X Games, he performed effortlessly and with tricks and […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Often I am asked for a list of interesting and educational locations within Second Life, the 3D virtual world software, here is a rather lengthy list of some of the more educational places within Second Life. Of especially keen interest is the Aids Quilt: The 3D AIDS Quilt, debut was in two virtual worlds and […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →One of the great things about being a faculty member is watching students who graduate go on and accomplish really awesome things (even more awesome than what the faculty member is doing…that’s a successful faculty member). One of the most creative people I know is Greg Walsh who was one of the first students I […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →I was reading through the May 2008 Harvard Business Review and came across a fascinating article called “The Science of Thinking Smarter”–a conversation with brain expert John J. Medina. Here are two questions and his responses that I thought were insightful especially when he talked about the convergence of memory and learning and the ability […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Here is a table with some tools for social learning, short description of the tool, the best use for social learning for the tool and some examples. Web 2.0 Tool Definition of the tool Best Use of Tool Examples Wiki A wiki is a self-organizing knowledge web site. A wiki is a discussion. Wiki software […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Understanding the concept of “Lean Manufacturing” can be a little tricky and counter intuitive. So here is a vignette discussing why playing a lean “game” can help solidify the concept and make clear the ideas that lean is advocating. It is one thing to read about lean manufacturing techniques, it is another to see them […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →The press reported that a recent study looking at sophomore college students indicated that 45% of those students (out of 2,300) showed no significant improvement in the key measures of critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing by the end of their sophomore years. On the surface that seems like a horrible result and for all […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Most Massively Multiplayer Online Role Play Games are similar. Will Wright was quoted in a post at New World Notes Will Wright on the Future of User-Generated Online Game Worlds (Circa 2002) as saying: The main limitations on the MMORPG market really seem to be self-imposed: Most developers can’t shake the fantasy/sci-fi mindset or conceive […]
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