Portable Learner

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Vannevar Bush’s essay, ‘As We May Think,’ is considered among the most influential scientific-technical writings of the last century. I decided to read his essay to see how his ‘memex’ machine might be used in a learning project by a self-directed learner.

For Ada Lovelace Day 2010 I want to highlight how women from the late-Victorian era convinced Bell Telephone that the phone was not merely a business tool for men, but for maintaining social connections as well. It's a great reminder that customers determine the alternate uses of technology, and in this case, the customers were women.

One of the most cherished myths in education is that in order to learn a skill, we must practice it to the point of doing it without thinking. But really, learning is more like cooking.

Are you writing SOPs your staff understand? We weren't. Not until we synthesizd studies from the current cognitive research and designed a new approach. We presented our results at this years AABB Annual Meeting.

This abstract and link to full paper summarizes my project work on design patterns for lifelong learners during my Masters program. It was published earlier this year in the Journal of Learning Design.

English architect and professor at University of California, Berkley. A controversial but influential theorist, especially of urban design.

This is my reading list for reflective practice, one of two ways I've been exploring that we can structure learning from experience. (The other is situated cognition.)

I put this reading list together after attending a professional development program in which the presenters spent considerable effort at the start gathering information from participants about what we already knew about the subject, and what we wanted to know. Prior knowledge and experience and learning needs -- very good, no? These presenters knew what they are doing. Not quite. They then delivered their prepared show and tell without once referring to what they had discovered about our experiences at the start, as if those experiences made no difference whatsoever.

A reading list made up of John Dewey's most significant writings, which feel more relevant today than ever.