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Stephen Downes presentation on 10 things "you really need to learn."

"Learning how to learn is learning how to create patterns in our mind rather than merely acquiring them."

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- Things you Really Need to
  Learn
  
  Stephen Downes
  May 30, 2007
- How to predict consequences
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- - A combination of science,
    mathematics, and visualization
    
    … the ability to
    create a mental
    model imaging the
    sequence of events
    that would follow,
    \"what would likely
    happen if...?\"
  - how we learn it today
    
    Games of:
    • numbers and counting (eg., darts)
    • action (eg., billiards, baseball)
    • chance (eg., poker)
    • strategy (eg., chess, go)
    
    … and a little bit of science and mathematics
    education, to fill out the theory
  - How to look at some text and to
    understand, in a deep way, what is
    being asserted…
  - How to read
  - Understanding the four major types of writing:
    • Description
    • Argument
    • Explanation
    • Definition
    
    http://www.isoc.org/inet2000/cdproceedings/6d/6d_1.htm
  - what to watch for
    
    • reading without comprehension
    • reading without meaning or purpose
  - Other Literacies
    • graphics and maps
    • videography
    • signs and symbols
    • music
    • body language
  - How to distinguish
    truth from fiction
  - The first thing to
    learn is to
    actually question
    what you are
    told, what you
    read, and what
    you see on
    television.
  - what it is
    
    • judging for yourself
    • observing
    • questioning
  - what to watch for
    
    • framing
    (motives matter)
    
    • backgrounding
    (our hidden assumptions)
    
    • misperception
    (we see what
    we’re looking for)
  - How to empathize
    The ability to imagine
    oneself as another person…
    
    The ability to be
    another person…
  - what it is
    
    a mental model of the other person's
    thoughts and feelings in your own mind
    
    a genuine feeling in yourself that
    operates in synch with the other person
  - what to watch for
    
    - assuming everyone else is like you
    
    - assuming empathy is
    a bargain
    like, say, the golden rule
  - be creative
  - A transfer of knowledge from
    one domain to another
    • A manipulation of that
    knowledge
    Operates by metaphor
    thinking outside the box
    
    Requires pattern recognition
  - How to communicate clearly
  - what it is
    probably the hardest
    
    • knowing what you want to say
    • knowing how to say it
    
    simple tools
  - How to Learn
    your brain. You
    are trying to
    connect
    neurons
    together, and to
    strengthen that
    connection.
  - Learning is like recognition…
    
    To teach is to model and demonstrate
    
    pattern recognition
  - Learning how to learn is learning how to create patterns in
    our mind
  - If your school is not facilitating proper
    exercise and nutrition, demand them!
  - you have to
    say \"I am valuable.\
  - the belief that you are good enough (to have an
    opinion, have a voice, and have a say, that your contributions
    do matter)
  - the belief that you are capable (that you can learn
    to do new things and to be creative)
  - your ability to be independent (to not rely on
    some particular person or institution for personal well-being)
  - and autonomous (capable of making your own
    decisions and living your live in your own way)
  - what to watch for
    
    People who say you’re worthless
    (unless you vote for them, do what they say, buy their product)
    
    If somebody tells you
    that you are worthless
    over and over, and if you
    do nothing to counteract
    that, then you will come
    to believe you are
    worthless, because that's
    how your neural
    connections will form.
  - Tell yourself that you are smart, you are cool, you are strong…
  - What you are doing right
    now is the thing that you
    most want to do
  - How to live
    meaningfully
  - Appreciation of the here and now
  - educate people
    • cure diseases
    • explore space
    • worship God
    • raise a family
    • design cars
    • make art
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