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		<title>Understanding and Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John, Your post is getting at exactly what I was thinking. There are two underlying concepts that you allude to in your reply. The first has to do with how we measure understanding. We are brilliant at measuring recall or recognition. We also have great, evidence based methods of maximising recall and recognition performance. Behaviourist [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hethoughts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25605943&#038;post=760&#038;subd=hethoughts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What does Non-Mastery Mean?</title>
		<link>http://hethoughts.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/what-does-non-mastery-mean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we measure learning, we can measure it in two fundamental ways. Is the learner able to recall/demonstrate understanding/synthesise/critically evaluate &#8211; whatever &#8211; to a pre-set standard before the learning is finished (mastery), or is the learning graded (as in a gradient) and declared finished? The question I am asking is, if we don&#8217;t expect mastery [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hethoughts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25605943&#038;post=758&#038;subd=hethoughts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Graduates for the past</title>
		<link>http://hethoughts.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/graduates-for-the-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to a conference last week, and the focus was on how and why we need to have student centred learning. The talks were good, but it was the discussion that provided me with something to think about. I left to look up some of the numbers for myself &#8211; they are unbelievable. The [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hethoughts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25605943&#038;post=756&#038;subd=hethoughts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>University: Preparation for???</title>
		<link>http://hethoughts.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/university-preparation-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 10:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in October, I wrote about the difference between talent and labour. I was inspired by Harold Jarche&#8217;s review of a NY Times article, and today I read another of Harold&#8217;s blogs along a similar vein. Harold writes for an audience that primarily focuses on work-based training, while I write from a HE perspective &#8211; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hethoughts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25605943&#038;post=748&#038;subd=hethoughts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Higher what?</title>
		<link>http://hethoughts.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/743/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 09:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read Harold Jarche&#8217;s review of Marina Gorbis&#8217; new book, and was thinking about what to write about it (it struck a chord) and then Clark Quinn came up with something brilliant. It was his comments about our unique human skills and specifically our abilities for sensemaking, and  novel and adaptive thinking that hit me. In a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hethoughts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25605943&#038;post=743&#038;subd=hethoughts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caution &#8211; Shallow waters all around us</title>
		<link>http://hethoughts.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/caution-shallow-waters-all-around-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Shank&#8217;s blog post yesterday struck a note with me when I read it this morning. As I was reading the BBC&#8217;s article about Oxford&#8217;s Future of Humanity Institute, I thought about what Roger was saying, and how the thinking questions and real issues seem to have been displaced by the vacuous. In HE, we teach [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hethoughts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25605943&#038;post=741&#038;subd=hethoughts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning and Grades</title>
		<link>http://hethoughts.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/learning-and-grades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During this spring semester, Emma, one of my students, has been discussing grading as a part of our educational system, and what effect grading has on learning. Last week, my students pulled their thoughts together and produced synthesis blogs. I thought I&#8217;d share some of Emma&#8217;s insights. Grades lead to conformity. Although Susanna (another of my [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hethoughts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25605943&#038;post=732&#038;subd=hethoughts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Complexity and Creativity</title>
		<link>http://hethoughts.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/complexity-and-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something Herold Jarche wrote yesterday  made me think I needed to continue on from my last blog: Today’s digitally connected workplace demands a completely new set of skills. Our increasing interconnectedness is illuminating the complexity of our work environments. More connections create more possibilities, as well as more potential problems. On the negative side, we [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hethoughts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25605943&#038;post=730&#038;subd=hethoughts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conformity and Creativity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past couple of months, I have been teaching my Applying the Principles of Psychology to Education module here at Bangor, and have been reading (with great interest) some blogs, written by students, about the effect of conformity on learning (or education, as it may be). It is clear that demanding conformity of students results in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hethoughts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25605943&#038;post=727&#038;subd=hethoughts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scholarship of Learning</title>
		<link>http://hethoughts.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/scholarship-of-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After my last blog, I was (and still am) thinking about exactly what scholarship is. Dirks wrote a good summary of scholarship about 15 years ago, and I think it is a good, solid appraisal of what scholarship should be, except for the scholarship of teaching. After reviewing the development of scholarship, and how it [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hethoughts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25605943&#038;post=712&#038;subd=hethoughts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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