I discuss his key idea: that systemic thinking is a liberal art, and I explain a corollary idea, that textbooks suck
Alan Kay, Systems, and Textbooks « Theatrical Smoke - 2 views
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if you don’t have a category for an idea, it’s very difficult to receive that idea
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the story of the last few hundred years is that we’ve quickly developed important ideas, which society needs to have to improve and perhaps even to continue to exist, and for which there are no pre-existing, genetically created categories. So there’s an idea-receiving capacity gap.
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Wikibooks - 20 views
AFT - Publications - American Educator - Spring 2006 - How Knowledge Helps - 0 views
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The more you know, the easier it will be for you to learn new things.
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Recent neurological and psychological research (using scientific methodolgy as a basis, not theories e.g. Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, Bloom's Taxonomy, etc) is indicating that the constructivist models of learning, where 'process' is valued far more than 'content', are incorrect. Knowledge and thinking are interdependent and to think well, students must have knowledge.
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Yacapaca! - Home - 0 views
Illinois Educator Free Online Professional Development (Moodle Based) - 8 views
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Are you a middle or high school math or science teacher? If so, check out these new and innovative online professional development courses from the University of Illinois and the Illinois Math and Science Academy. Courses are available free of charge for Fall 2009.
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Are you a middle or high school math or science teacher? If so, check out these new and innovative online professional development courses from the University of Illinois and the Illinois Math and Science Academy. Courses are available free of charge for Fall 2009.
Multiple Intelligences - Implications - 13 views
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Have the person analyze how different people speak - what inflections they use, how they vary the pitch of their voice, e
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role play
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Have the person develop a mind-map
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