"Siri"Heidegger used the term readiness-to-hand, and the example of a hammer. When you are hammering successfully, the hammer withdraws from your conscious awareness; it becomes transparent. Winograd uses the term fluency. When you speak your own language or are truly fluent in another, you don’t think about nouns, verbs, and tenses, you just speak. He aspires to th...
Overcoming one size fits all learning [...] |
Blog post touching on the problem of one-size-fits-all, de-contextualised learning approaches and offering a method for addressing the 2 sigma problem that relies on the learner. Illustrate this with an example from software training. Not sure how this could be implemented. Other connections I do wonder how this approach would work/connect with the schema/model prob...
Digital technologies and impact of bad/absent schema [...] |
Ben-Ari and Yeshno (2006) found that people with appropriate conceptual models of digital technologies were better able to analyse and solve problems. While learners without appropriate conceptual models were limited to aimless trial and error. The problem is that digital technologies are increasingly blackboxes/opaque, which makes it very difficult to figure out the...
Decision frames and schemata [...] |
"Decision frames"Definition: A frame is the context used to describe an idea, question, or decision. Frames heavily influence our interpretations and conclusions by emphasizing (or ignoring) certain aspects of a situation....Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky explored the effect of decision frames and found that the exact same information can lead to oppos...
