Tag: learning
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It is no accident that the word ‘chord’ rhymes with ‘word’. Chords, indeed, are musical words and developing a choral vocabulary is the essence of musicanship much as language skills are built upon a wide verbal vocabulary. What if we treated music as seriously as we do reading and writing? What if musical literacy—like language—were…
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This article is part of a series towards building the ethos of sci2pro.com. In my earlier essay, I argued that impactful learning is both gradual and social. Today, I want to add another layer to that argument: real learning depends on real-time feedback. This may seem obvious, but it has radical implications—especially for how we design learning in…
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I think understanding is enhanced by starting with examples and I’ll do just that. Yesterday, I finally appreciated recursion. For those of you who are not into programming and logical problem solving, recursion is defined as applying a series of steps used in solving a problem (algorithm – applying an algorithm to itself) to itself. Huh?…
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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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