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Cognitive Dissonance
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Cognitive Dissonance
Study Hall Hell: Why It’s An Even Bigger Waste of Time Than It Ever Was
The rise of technology has really done one thing for all of us. It’s made it a lot easier to work from anywhere. We can take work home on disc or stick and we can sure as hell do it when we want to. Very few things, especially in the educational context, actually needs to [...]
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Cognitive Dissonance
What If Schools Get In The Way?
I am going to go and piss on a lot of lawns today with this one.
But.
Don’t say I didn’t warn ya.
Here we go.
What if schools get in the way of students?
Please note that this opinion is entirely based in the frame of the developed nation. United States. Japan. Western Europe. Basically countries where people have [...] -
Cognitive Dissonance
Cut the Tripe
Reductionism.
Don’t really know the ‘official’ philosophy behind it, but the all-mighty Wikipedia says…
Reductionism can either mean (a) an approach to understanding the nature of complex things by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, or to simpler or more fundamental things or (b) a philosophical position that a complex system is nothing but the [...] -
Cognitive Dissonance
On Demand
Is seeking information on a whim a bad thing?
We rant about this in the office on occasion. There’s no such thing as a stupid question (in theory), but… Yeah, go figure out how to resize margins in Word on your own, thank you.
But is it a bad thing?
In some cases, it probably is. These are [...] -
Cognitive Dissonance
Technology Facilitation is Dead
A quick shot off the starboard guns (too preoccupied with projects I’m more passionate about), but that’s what I think.
Facilitation is le olde worlde.
The word ‘facilitate’ is all about making things easier.
But it has roots in the word ‘facile’.
“…appearing neat and comprehensive only by ignoring the true complexities of an issue; superficial…”
Ah, gold.
Technology is not [...]
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