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Short-Circuiting 10,000 hours: David Gerhard - 0 views

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    David Gerhard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and an associate member in the Department of Music at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan. He introduces his musical creation called the Rainboard. With it, he asks if we can shortcut the path to musical mastery.

George Siemens - 3 views

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Some Differences Between Experts and Novices - 1 views

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    This excerpt is taken from the book "The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education" Game-based learning have been increasingly used in educational settings in the last 10 years and there is a lot of research on this subject. I wonder if there is any on game-based learning how experts and novices solve certain problems in the game environments. Sounds a promising research area.
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    The example of Making sale in differentiating novices and experts is stunning.While novices focus on making the sale , experts develop relationships. The former aims to think, organize information for a limited time for that thing only.However the latter thinks more elaboratelly, develop ways for a long period of time for future connections which is wiser.Thus, we can see that experts know how to use their long term memory effectively compared to novices.
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two courses of expertise - 0 views

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    When I was searching about the expertise this article was referred in several pice of papers. So I have reached this one. In this article aouthars mentioned about spontaneous expertise. I think it is a good work to read and understand relationship between expertise and learning development.
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Why we stop learning-Paradox of Expertise - 0 views

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    This is a good writing which explains the paradox and gives specific examples on his issue.
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    This explains many things :) "The moral of the spotlight effect is that we think everyone is paying attention to everything we do, consumed with our tiny missteps and bad hair days, but they aren't. Why? Because they are busy thinking about you paying attention to their tiny missteps and bad hair days. The bad news is that people are pretty self-absorbed thinking others are paying attention to them. The good news is that people aren't paying that much attention to you, so don't worry so much about what others will think if you do x, y, or z."
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    "EXPERT" is a very powerful word. It gives many responsibilities to the people who are considered "experts" in their fields. As the writer says, "It is hard to let others know that you don't know everything they think you know." What professional and social pressure on people! I don't know how to get rid of such feelings but I think people should be aware of the fact that being a leader and at the same time an expert necessiates at least 20,000 hours of deliberate practice :-))
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Problem Solving Knowledge Transfer: An Expert's Perspective - 1 views

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    Here is another research that comes up with the findings indicating being an expert does not mean to teach effectively because of expertise-base biases. So, expert teachers make difference thanks to their pedagogical knowledge, don't they?
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Novice and Expert Teachers' Conceptions of Learners' Prior Knowledge - 1 views

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    Here is a research on the differences between novice and expert teachers' perceptions about students' prior knowledge and how they differ in making use of it. Linking this article to the topic of this week I believe novice teachers bring up novice learners. It is like a vicious circle, I think.
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Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else - 0 views

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    This is a book by Geoff Colvin which talks about the importance of deliberate practice. Mr. Colvin's primary message in this book is that people are not born with all the natural talent and abilities that will make them great it life. He asserts that, aside from some physical atributes that may give an athlete an advantage in a particular sport, everyone can achieve world-class performance through "deliberate practice" in his or her chosen field - business, music, sports, etc.
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    Thank you for the link, I am curious in finding more sources on the effect of deliberate practice and its effects. As I have searched Geoff Colvin is from the field of economics so it can be interesting to hear from people of different fields.
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    Neil Charness is also a scholar on psychology from Florida State University. He has some thoughts on expert performance. You can also check his works. :)
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Professor Remy Rikers - 0 views

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    He is a scholar and researcher from the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (Europe) in the field of expertise development and deliberate practise.
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    http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-012-9195-x#page-1 This is the article "Educational Implications of Expertise Reversal Effects in Learning and Performance of Complex Cognitive and Sensorimotor Skills" by Slava Kalyuga, Remy Rikers and Fred Paas (we omitted it from the readings but you can read additionally)
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Professor Slava Kalyuga - 0 views

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    Dr Kalyuga is a Professor at the School of Education, the University of New South Wales, where he has worked since 1995. His research interests are in cognitive processes in learning, cognitive load theory, and evidence-based instructional design principles. His specific contributions include detailed experimental studies of the role of learner prior knowledge in learning (expertise reversal effect); the redundancy effect in multimedia learning; the development of rapid online diagnostic assessment methods; and studies of the effectiveness of different adaptive procedures for tailoring instruction to levels of learner expertise
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Classics in the History of Psychology -- Skinner (1950) - 1 views

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    This document demostrates Skinner's view of learning. I think is an essential reading for learners of learning..:) Certain basic assumptions, essential to any scientific activity, are sometimes called theories. That nature is orderly rather than capricious is an example. Certain statements are also theories simply to the extent that they are not yet facts. A scientist may guess at the result of an experiment before the experiment is carried out.
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Cognitive Tutor students demonstrate lower failure rates than standard algebra curricul... - 1 views

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    Pınar, I think Carnegie Learning "Success Stories" page does not provide the information whether the research group uses the tutoring system as additional or supportive on top of the control group's traditional lesson content. So if the research group only used the tutoring system then it is a significant result.
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    I think it was a supportive program because in the report it was stated that the Cognitive Tutor Algebra I curriculum consisted of classroom instruction, software sessions, and text. However, the information provided in the report is not sufficient to make an evaluation of the program, other variables might have influenced the results.
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METU Library - Announcemet Details - 0 views

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    There is a workshop at METU Library on Mendeley. Do not miss this opportunity!!!
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Applying Situated Learning in a Virtual Reality System to Enhance Learning Motivation - 1 views

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    In this study, resarchers has created a virtual learning enviroment by considering situated learning theory. The results explained that VR features and perceived usefulness variables were predictors for situated learning. Moreover,the results are found to be statistically significant and indicate that situated learning helps to improve the motivation to learn.
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An instructional design framework for authentic learning environments - 1 views

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    This is the article which defines critical characteristics of situated learning enviroment. The authors used a lot of literature in the analysis part of the study. The purpose of this study was firstly, to identify critical characteristics of a situated learning environment from the extensive literature base on the subject; secondly, to operationalise the critical characteristics of a situated learning environment by designing a multimedia program which incorporated the identified characteristics; and thirdly, to investigate students' perceptions of their experiences using an multimedia package based on a situated learning framework. I think it will helpful us while we are searching for more articles on situated learning, because it has an extensive reference list.
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    Designing the instruction to make use of authenticity is very important as we discussed in the posts. Thank you Hatice for sharing this : )
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SITUATED COGNITION LESSON - 3 views

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    It was an informing video about the basics of situated cognition, I wish that whole essays can be transformed into videos :) It was nice to support with perssonal experiencec with theory
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Perspectives on Situated Learning and Instructional Design - 0 views

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    This animation presents the prominent figures in situated learning and a summary of their perspectives.
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    What a funny but highly sophisticated gyus the are :)
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Epistemic games and situated learning. - 0 views

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    I am now convinced of the opportunities of learning that can be provided by games after reading the following quote: "While commercial video games often offer worlds in which players prepare for the actions of soldiers or thieves, the question arises as to whether other types of games could let players prepare for action from different perspectives or identities such as a particular type of scientist, political activist, or global citizen, for instance. "
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    I remember many years ago I read a science fiction book about a game which was created to select the President. (Spoiler - The winner of the game was a 13 old year boy:)) Actually games are very interesting and will be very useful for education but the main problem here is the nature of market and the cost. Last week I was reading an article about mobile learning, I think this quote is meaningful for games too "In any case, hardware devices and technical systems are all without exception designed, manufactured, and marketed for corporate, retail, or recreational users. Any educational uses of the devices and the systems are necessarily parasitic and secondary." We have to consider education as "building the nation, building our future" then we can afford the cost and then educational games, devices will not be secondary...
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    Yelda, honestly, I also used to question the contribution of video games to learning and nowadays, as seeing more examples like the one you shared, I guess yes perspective are changing:) I believe as we also discussed in the forum, the most critical thing is how the material, video or something else is presented to the learners and used, not the material itself.
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    The same material in two differnt hands may serve to two differnt ideologies , beliefs, subject areas hence I do definitely agree with Canan the mentality of the minds who are using those plays the important role.
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