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What I did at the Learning Solutions 2010 Conference – Thursday

I wrote about what I did at the LS Conference on Wednesday here. Keynote The keynote was given by Jonah Lehrer on How We Decide, The New Science of Decision Making. I had a little bit of trouble with the content as it was delivered. It started when he described Walter Mischel’s “Marshmallow Experiment“. In [...]

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Help build out a wiki about using tech to help with Asperger’s issues

I’m working on the first assignment for my Web 2.0 course. I have to make an example of “produsage”. What I settled on was creating a wiki so people can share how they use technology to overcome issues that come along because of Executive Functioning deficits (here is the link to the wiki). For example, [...]

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From Ninja Turtles to Persephone?

Last night I listened to Stephen Downes’ lecture at #teched about Personal Learning Environments. One quote stuck with me: The learner is the product of education To me that means the product of education isn’t a diploma, or a certificate. The product of education is the delta between the individual’s knowledge from when they started [...]

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