Stephen Downes: Things You Really Need To Learn - 1 views
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to educators, I ask, if you are not teaching these things in your classes, why are you not?
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The prediction of consequences is part science, part mathematics, and part visualization. It is essentially the ability to create a mental model imaging the sequence of events that would follow, "what would likely happen if...?"
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how to look at some text and to understand, in a deep way, what is being asserted (this also applies to audio and video, but grounding yourself in text will transfer relatively easily, if incompletely, to other domains).
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Do not simply accept what you are told. Always ask, how can you know that this is true? What evidence would lead you to believe that it is false?
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Sometimes people think that creative ideas spring out of nothing (like the proverbial 'blank page' staring back at the writer) but creativity is in fact the result of using and manipulating your knowledge in certain ways.
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creativity involves a transfer of knowledge from one domain to another domain, and sometimes a manipulation of that knowledge.
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You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but they are meaningless if you do not feel personally empowered to use them; it's like owning a Lamborghini and not having a driver's license.
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When you realize you have the power to choose what you are doing, you realize you have the power to choose the consequences. Which means that consequences -- even bad consequences -- are for the most part a matter of choice