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Extreme frustration!!! I’m not making any headway in French. i can’t put my finger on what I have learned at the end of every class. So, what’s the point? There has to be a better way… or no way at all! I think the human mind is amazing in the sense that it cannot be…
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The learning process is a sacred process: an opportunity to construct in one’s (self or others’) a model that will facilitate their interaction with the real world. Irrespective of the application domain, the teacher’s task can be more successfully achieved if the right mental map is built – it is frustrating to be unable to…
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I think the reason we fear the unknown is that we are left at the mercy of ‘no information’ and so we easily replace the object of our fear with our greatest fear, or we find a way of creating a relationship between our greatest fear and the subject at hand. Imagine what damage this…
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It has just occurred to me how many times we make the learning process unnecessarily complicated. I recently read an article about Database Design. Wonderful article! In fact, quite a number of concepts clicked in place. However, I had the patience to endure terminology. Quite a bore. I think there is a very good alternative…
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What are the challenges that one will face when learning a new language? Given that I am presently learning (or relearning) French, I have put some thought to the matter and I would like to now put them down on paper (on e-ink). I have identified three main challenges. I will call them The Framework Problem, The…
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I know that I will need to put this in more precise words but I think it is an interesting idea. Most computational devices run on an interesting principle which I think is the one reason we shall not be able to build Artificially Intelligent Systems that are as intelligent as humans are. The computational…
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