The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. – Alvin Toffler I have been thinking about how education should look like in our 21st century. Here is a list of the types of learning I think are important. Notice that […]
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Has metacognition arrived in popular culture ?
September 12, 2008 
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What is Metacognition ? “Metacognition is the knowledge (i.e. awareness) of one’s cognitive processes and the efficient use of this self-awareness to self-regulate these cognitive processes (e.g. Brown, 1987; Niemi, 2002; Shimamura, 2000). ( Wikipedia entry for “Metacognition”) Meta cognition can help us understand that there are many different types of thinking tools at our […]
Read moreThe Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
September 28, 2007 0 Comments
“The Stuff of Thought” explores the duality of human cognition: the modesty of its construction and the majesty of its constructive power. Pinker weaves this paradox from a series of opposing theories. Philosophical realists, for instance, think perception comes from reality. Idealists think it’s all in our heads. Pinker says it comes from reality but […]
Read moreNonduality and either/or thinking
May 28, 2007 2 Comments
“Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought…The sense-experiences are the given subject-matter. But the theory that shall interpret them is manmande…hypothetical, never completely final, subject to question and doubt.” – Albert Einstein. “The world we have made as a result of the […]
Read moreThe age of machine-mediated empiricism
May 3, 2007 0 Comments
Traditional human-based empiricism as we knew it through many years ended with the advent of technology. It shifted and became a hybrid of linear mechanics and phenomenology. Today it is another type of hybrid it, is a hybrid of human phenomenology and digital phenomenology. Since science leads our concept of reality and science uses quite […]
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Are you trained to see by your discipline?
April 25, 2007 0 Comments
How we visually scan images seems to be somewhat related to the disciplinary training we have; or at least that’s what we learn from a blog posting on Cognitive Daily. In this blog post they compare how an artist and a psychologist scans an image. If this is indeed the case this may present some […]
Read moreTypes of Questions (part 2)
April 18, 2007 0 Comments
Questions beyond traditional text/spoken communication. Questions may take on a form that transcends traditional spoken or written communication. This means that an object, a structure, a sculpture, a craft, a piece of clothing, a building, a process, all of these may be constructed as a network of questions or as “inquiry activators” (something that encourages […]
Read moreVisual Complexity, postmodern interfaces and multinformation
March 30, 2007 0 Comments
“VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project’s main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate […]
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Some systems thinking links and resources
March 8, 2007 2 Comments
The Well. Fundamentals of Systems Thinking Diagrams and explanations and links at this location. (The diagram above is from this website). The Special Libraries Association. Has a short definition of systems thinking. Center for Ecological Literacy has one of the most accessible introductions to systems thinking. Margaret J. Wheatley. Writer and lecturer and systems thinker. […]
Read moreSystems thinking and intelligence
March 7, 2007 0 Comments
Quoting a research paper’s abstract. “Better performing subjects attempted to gain an understanding of the system structure before they proceeded to develop strategies and take action. The findings revealed a cyclical thought pattern that was consistently followed by better performing participants. This pattern, termed the CPA cycle, consists of three distinct phases of conception, planning, […]
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