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]]> http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/21/do-we-learn-differently-now/comment-page-1/#comment-24158 Howard Mon, 24 May 2010 18:03:22 +0000 http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/?p=5078#comment-24158 Greeting Abhijit; and thanks for the thinking prompt. I Agree and Disagree.  At a broad level I agree, evolution generally progresses slowly.  I do believe that learning solutions will be changing, but at the broadest level I believe that pedagogy is changing because we are exposing the weakness of traditional teaching methods.  We can no longer get by with traditional methods like linear courses and lectures supplied to our youth. On the other hand, Lev Vygotsky noted how the tools that a person uses reflects back on and changes the way people think.  You get a hammer (tool #1), learn to be a carpenter ( the concept of a carpenter is tool #2) and you change human capabilities.  Computers changed the way I write (handwriting), but also how I organize my thoughts and communicate.  Things like augmented reality will have some change on cognition.  One of the most interesting comments that I heard about the potential for the singularity is that we will never know when it occurs.  We will slowly change until we are fully cyborg and the distinction between human and machine is no longer clear.  . . . But now I've got to reign my thoughts back in and get back to work.  Later! Greeting Abhijit; and thanks for the thinking prompt.
I Agree and Disagree.  At a broad level I agree, evolution generally progresses slowly.  I do believe that learning solutions will be changing, but at the broadest level I believe that pedagogy is changing because we are exposing the weakness of traditional teaching methods.  We can no longer get by with traditional methods like linear courses and lectures supplied to our youth.
On the other hand, Lev Vygotsky noted how the tools that a person uses reflects back on and changes the way people think.  You get a hammer (tool #1), learn to be a carpenter ( the concept of a carpenter is tool #2) and you change human capabilities.  Computers changed the way I write (handwriting), but also how I organize my thoughts and communicate.  Things like augmented reality will have some change on cognition.  One of the most interesting comments that I heard about the potential for the singularity is that we will never know when it occurs.  We will slowly change until we are fully cyborg and the distinction between human and machine is no longer clear.  . . . But now I’ve got to reign my thoughts back in and get back to work.  Later!

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