Aug
20
20
Learning, Natural and Artificial
The Intelligent Design Series || Part 02 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain Nature has not adapted the young Read More →
Author: Gregg Collins
Aug
10
10
Bad Ideas in Learning
One of the talks I give regularly is a rant about various bad ideas in learning that I don’t like. I initially started doing this Read More →
Jul
31
31
How People Learn
The Intelligent Design Series || Part 01 Making correct predictions in pursuit of a goal is a pretty good definition of “intelligence”. Steven Pinker Mistakes Read More →
Oct
13
13
Unfair Tests and Natural Learning
A recent New York Times Magazine article (“Why Flunking Exams is Actually a Good Thing,” Sep. 4, 2014) describes a fascinating line of research by Read More →
Oct
5
5
Compulsion Loops and Addictive Training Games
These days, in learning, it’s cool to be gamey. So, not surprisingly, there’s a lot of hype. And a lot of bad educational games. To get past Read More →
May
1
1
Harvard Prof Stops Lecturing, Embraces Peer-to-peer
Eric Mazur is a physics professor at Harvard whose energetic, charismatic style has made him a popular teacher for decades. A few years ago, Mazur suddenly renounced his typical Read More →
Apr
25
25
The Best Training Session You’ll Ever See
I took my first tennis lesson 40 years ago, and I still remember it vividly. What was remarkable about it was that at no time during Read More →
Apr
25
25
Real Time 3D Training
We’ve been building simulations since our research lab days (at the Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University). We’ve used a slew of different Read More →
Apr
25
25
Seymour Papert on games in education
Seymour Papert cofounded the MIT media lab and was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, but his lifelong interest has been on education, and especially Read More →
Apr
24
24
How Games Drive Learning
It seems like almost everyone these days is trying to apply game-like approaches to training. It’s easy to see why. Video games are intense and Read More →