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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Higher-order Thinking
September 20, 2008 
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I added “Higher-order Thinking” to the Wikipedia List of thought processes today. The entry for this thought process existed in Wikipedia but it was missing from the master list of thought processes – which is becoming a quick reference list. Here is a quote from the original entry on Higher-order Thinking: “Higher order thinking involves […]
Read moreMetacognition: reading and understanding difficult texts
September 19, 2008 3 Comments
Miss Dee documented the way she digests difficult passages in literature. Here is her flow step-by-step: “Step 1: Identify the genre and topic of the passage. Step 2: Look for Topic Sentences and supporting evidence and explanations. Step 3: Draw links -> look out for connectors Step 4: Use one-line summary for each paragraph to […]
Read moreA Call for a Multidisciplinary Connection Effort
October 28, 2007 2 Comments
Abstract concepts can also be understood as emergent concepts. These emergent concepts may the results of the interplays from our own personal lenses we use to interpret the world. Lenses like our own physical bodies and conceptual lenses such as belief systems help to shape the way we interpret things. This diagram may also help […]
Read moreEcolanguage
May 24, 2007 0 Comments
From Ecolanguage: “Ecolanguage is an animated graphic language to show a standard way to combine economics and ecology in the same image. Lee A. Arnold has put up a baker’s dozen of Ecolanguage videos on YouTube. The “channel” page with the whole list is here:” http://youtube.com/leearnold ………………….. -Daniel Montano ………………….. Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, […]
Read moreAre 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 […]
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