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 →
Learning Leaders
Nov
1
1
Failure-driven Learning versus “Coloring Inside the Lines”
In my last post, I talked about the most common challenge to the theory of failure-driven learning. In this post, I want to address another frequent challenge, Read More →
Oct
26
26
Failure-driven Learning versus “Success-driven learning”
The heart of our pedagogical approach is the theory of “failure-driven learning,” which says, in a nutshell, that learning happens only when the world does something different 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 →
May
8
8
Killing the Next Button: Navigating eLearning Courses by Scrolling
You know the drill: open an eLearning course, interact with a screen’s worth of content, and then click Next. But is horizontal navigation really the 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
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 →