Learning Theories Gone Wild – Urban Myths that Hurt Your Learning Designs

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is an excellent summary of a few of the more popular myths. Check it out. Learning Theories Gone Wild – Urban Myths that Hurt Your Learning Designs. by Sharon Boller “People have different learning styles. We need to design … Continue reading

Where I’ve Been Online (Mar. 8 2014)

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesInventor to Schools: ‘Let Kids Fail!’ | MindShift “We’ve heard the importance of failure and experimentation in learning. In this excellent interview on Science Friday, inventor James Dyson speaks about his direct experience with failures and schools’ need to accommodate … Continue reading

Big Fat Phoenix: The most important game design lesson I ever learned

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is key. Big Fat Phoenix: The most important game design lesson I ever learned. The action that your player performs most frequently should feel like fun all by itself. Far FAR too often, the action that the player performs … Continue reading

Stephen Downes’ comment on the Post Article: Does ‘discovery learning’ prepare Alberta students for the 21st century or will it toss out a top tier education system?

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutes~ Stephen’s Web. Does ‘discovery learning’ prepare Alberta students for the 21st century or will it toss out a top tier education system? I have long thought that “talent” is something people are born with – they may have more … Continue reading

Human Factors: The Third Wave of Gamification?

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesHuman Factors: The Third Wave of Gamification?. This article points to another describing a “third wave” of gamification that involves effectively users creating their own games within the environment they are using, and expresses some dubiousness about its utility. I … Continue reading

Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code — Learning to Code — Medium

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteEXCELLENT advice. Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code — Learning to Code — Medium. Before you learn to code, think about what you want to code. …..There’s nothing mystical about it (but … Continue reading

Media literacy tops traditional education in school smoking-prevention efforts – Medical News Today

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteHmmmmm – helping kids learn how to think is more effective than telling them what to think. Who’d a thunk it? Media literacy tops traditional education in school smoking-prevention efforts – Medical News Today. Be the first to like. Like … Continue reading

Signature Pedagogies in Education

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesInstructional Design Collaboration: A Professional Learning and Growth Experience ~ Stephen’s Web. Amid a dozen of so papers that could have been wrritten in the 1990s is this position paper in the current issue of the Journal of Online Learning … Continue reading