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What is Machine Learning? - Definition from Techopedia - 0 views

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  • Machine learning allows computers to handle new situations via analysis, self-training, observation and experience.
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Learning and memory - 2 views

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  • as a process for acquiring memory
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Brown, Collins & Duguid, 1989 - Eduwiki - 0 views

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  • making Real-World connections
  • The context into where a student learned knowledge was helpful, but not seen as a key component as it is today.
  • Teaching from books instead of everyday life assumes that the knowledge within the book is self-contained. Dictionaries are most useful to an experienced reader who refers to them with a specific context already in mind.
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What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message? - 0 views

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  • Similarly, the message of a newscast are not the news stories themselves, but a change in the public attitude towards crime, or the creation of a climate of fear.
  • a medium is "any extension of ourselves." Classically, he suggests that a hammer extends our arm and that the wheel extends our legs and feet.
  • Similarly, the medium of language extends our thoughts from within our mind out to others
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  • growing medium, like the fertile potting soil into which a seed is planted, or the agar in a Petri dish
  • We can know the nature and characteristics of anything we conceive or create (medium) by virtue of the changes - often unnoticed and non-obvious changes - that they effect (message.)
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How Social Media Is Having a Positive Impact On Our Culture [OPINION] - 0 views

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  • Consider peer-to-peer networking as just one example, where the tasks are distributed among the group to form a whole. It’s practically a metaphor for the human mind. Or a township. Or a government. Or a family.
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Collaborative problem-solving, ie project work, is back in fashion | Fran Abrams | Educ... - 0 views

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collaborative learning H800

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    Recent guardian post
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Of mind and media: EBSCOhost - 1 views

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forms of representation H800

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  • different forms of representation have what philosophers call different fields of reference.
  • even when different symbolic forms of representation address the same field of reference, conveying (what appears to be) the same information
  • strongly colored by the knowledge structures ("schemata") we already possess
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  • much may depend on the richness and organization of the knowledge schemata one brings to bear on the incoming information
  • affect meanings is a matter of balance between them and the richness of one's schemata
  • the convergence of findings supports the conclusion that different symbolic forms of representation require different symbolic capacities
  • basic symbolic forms of representation--language, number, spatial relations, movement, pitch
  • The seven intelligences he describes (linguistic, musical, logical/mathematical, spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, intrapersonal, and interpersonal)
  • different symbolic forms of representation are processed by different sets of mental skills and capacities
  • hildren do not expend much mental effort on a televised story, even when it is quite poetic and requires effort
  • Thus they learn far less from it than from an equivalent story in print.
  • Where or when television is perceived as a serious medium
  • They also seem to be gradually changing the meaning of "knowledge," from something that is possessed to something to which we have access
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Week 5: Knowing, media and forms of representation: Learning and artefacts - 0 views

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H800 forms of representation

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  • mportant questions about the ways in which learning complex systems can be assisted by making use of the same technological environments that give rise to the learning need
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Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration | Talk Video | TED - 0 views

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H800 collaboration

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      Mentions many to many learning or Peer to Peer
  • Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration
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Vicarious Learning | IGI Global - 0 views

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vicarious learning learning theory H800

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  • However, the specific suggestion we address here is that vicarious learning is a distinct idea that may have its own implications, particularly for distance learners and others whose access to normal learning dialogue is limited.
  • Vicarious learning accordingly arises in situations where a learning experience is witnessed and reacted to as a learning experience by another learner.
  • This is a clear example of vicarious learning where the focus of the learning episode is some cognitive skill or understanding
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  • The Answer Garden (Ackerman & Malone, 1990) and Answer Web (Slater, 1993) are computer-based learning systems based on networks of questions that have been asked by learners and answered by experts, allowing future learners simply to access these exchanges and thus to learn vicariously.
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    Vicarious Learning
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Nonconceptual content and objectivity - 0 views

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design H800

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  • In general, we may regard a perceptual experience as an informational state of the subject: it has a certain content -- the world is represented a certain way -- and hence it permits of a non-derivative classification as true or false. For an internal state to be so regarded, it must have appropriate connections with behaviour -- it must have a certain motive force upon the actions of the subject.... The informational states which a subject acquires through perception are non-conceptual, or nonconceptualised. Judgements based upon such states necessarily involve conceptualisation.
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Nonconceptual Mental Content (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views

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H800 Design

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  • The central idea behind the theory of nonconceptual mental content is that some mental states can represent the world even though the bearer of those mental states need not possess the concepts required to specify their content.
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    Nonconceptual Mental Content
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Forum design - 0 views

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forums H800

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    I've found that use of the interpersonal action-learning cycle can have profound effects in several areas of module-based education.
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What Is Web 2.0 - O'Reilly Media - 0 views

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web 2.0 H810

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    Classic text
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Is Mobile Learning Relevant in Developing Countries? - 1 views

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  • foreign intervention is less desirable than autonomous growth and innovation
  • M-Pesa (“mobile money” in Swahili) is a Kenyan mobile phone service which allows people to pay or transfer money to any other mobile phone user. It came about to meet the needs of a population poorly served by traditional banking services, before spreading throughout Africa, and is now among the most advanced mobile payment systems in the world. It’s different from your typical money transfer, because it doesn’t rely on bank accounts
  • Today, over 50% of adult Kenyans use the service to transfer money and pay for bills and even shopping
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  • At first, the internet made the world more global; now, the internet itself is becoming more local. The various fora and message boards serve as increasingly rich archives of dialogues – where a problem has been solved once, that solution can be sought by anyone
  • Anyone with access to Google can leverage the collective wisdom of the masses
  • he advent of cloud computing and crowd-sourcing means that individuals can now create and distribute their own educational content with little to no overhead
  • Udemy is one such platform, enabling educational content to be sourced from individuals rather than publishing houses (though a number of publishers do use the platform). Anyone can upload a lesson, and anyone can take a lesson
  • These platforms, which empower the individual, are significant because they enable highly local, highly specific learning content
  • While publishing houses need to generalise their content and target the largest audience, an individual is under no such imperative.
  • it becomes more and more feasible for anyone, anywhere to share their knowledge
  • it’s not poorer nations that benefit from the benevolence of richer ones – rather, the transaction becomes more individual
  • One person, anywhere, can learn, and can teach, another person. That person can be their neighbour or someone on the other side of the planet. And if the concept of reverse innovation shows anything, it’s that the East can teach the West a thing or two.
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