Archives for January 2009
Blog Carnival: Effectivity
“WissensWert” is running a blog carnival. I tried to answer their questions. Read more
CCK08 feed closed
Some people still subscribe to my CCK08 category feed. Please use the more general feed address (without “category/cck08/”).
Confusion or critical thinking
“Courseocentrism” impedes the development of critical thinking skills; only the high achieving minority of students are able to synthesize the disparate views on their own, while the struggling majority are confused by the “mixed messages” they get from their different teachers. But I doubt that harmonized content would help much, instead of growing the connections on their own. Read more…
Leveraging differences
Stephen Kosslyn describes an approach of studying a “periodic table of the mind”. I like the chemical metaphor which prompted me to think about modern alchemy. Read more…
Annual repository cleanup
Cleaning up my repositories, showed me that my bookmark collection has lost much of its relevance. If the links aren’t digested right away, they won’t be useful later, either. Read more about my filing and cleanup strategies.
