“…learning technology is most useful when it is designed to meet specific needs and contexts” (p. 164). I read sentences like this and I sometimes wonder…does that really need to be written? Is this an a-ha moment for anyone? Are we still doing things in classrooms without thinking about why we are doing them? Unfortunately […]
Category Archives: How People Learn
HPL II – Chapter 7 – Implications for Learning in School
In chapter 7 the authors examined how learning in school would be impacted by the points discussed earlier in the book. Some of the most outstanding points are summarized in quotes below that focus on the experience of school for different students. “School is a cross cultural experience” (p. 136) “A key dimension of creating […]
HPL II – Chapter 6 – Motivation to Learn
Motivation changes. “Motivation is also increasingly viewed as an emergent phenomenon, meaning it can develop over time and change as a result of one’s experiences with learning and other circumstances” (p.111). This makes it a challenging concept to pin down to a neat set of bulleted points to follow. However, it does not mean that […]
HPL II – Ch 5 – Knowledge and Reasoning
This is the third in a series of posts examining the new text How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures a companion to How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School. In this post I share my reaction to chapter 4: Processes that Support Learning. Iterative knowledge building, learning and knowledge-related biases, and the […]
Pumpkins and Processes that Support Learning
This is the third in a series of posts examining the new text How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures a companion to How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School. In this post I share my reaction to chapter 4: Processes that Support Learning. PS: You’re going to have to read a bit […]
How People Learn II: Types of Learning and the Developing Brain
This is the second in a series of posts examining the new text How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures a companion to How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School. In this post I share my reaction to chapter 3: Types of Learning and the Developing Brain. Chapter 3 of HPL II focused […]
How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts and Cultures
This is the first of a series of posts examining the new text How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures a companion to How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School. In this post I share my reaction to chapter 2: Context and Culture. “Learning does not happen in the same way for all […]
The Connection between Motivation & Exploitation in Education
A synopsis of chapter 9 “Technology to Support Learning” of How People Learn. As a technologist I was most intrigued by this chapter’s title and was curious to see whether words written in 1993 would accurately reflect the current direction of educational technology. As you could probably expect a lot of the suggestions and ideas […]
Vulnerability, messy learning & research — How can we be better?
A synopsis of chapter 8 “Teacher Learning” of How People Learn. This chapter of How People Learn (HPL) focused on ways that teachers continue to learn once they are in their own classroom and how those compare to what we know about how people learn. The authors categorized the opportunities for learning for practicing teachers […]
The child is at the center
A synopsis of chapter 6 “The Design of Learning Environments” of How People Learn I am currently working on building out a series of blog posts in connection a session I presented on creating a more student-centered Canvas course site. You can view what I’ve written so far here. So I was very pleased to […]
