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learners are actively attempting to create meaning.

The ability to synthesize and recognize connections
and patterns is a valuable skill.

technology
performs many of the cognitive operations previously performed by learners
(information storage and retrieval).

If the underlying conditions used
to make decisions change, the decision itself is no longer as correct
as it was at the time it was made.

The
capacity to form connections between sources of information, and thereby
create useful information patterns, is required to learn in our knowledge
economy.

Weak ties are links or bridges that allow short connections between information.
Our small world networks are generally populated with people whose interests
and knowledge are similar to ours.

decisions are based
on rapidly altering foundations.

Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known

14-month-old master the page-flipping gesture on the iPhone's touch interface.

plant-eating dinosaur

herbivore

cycads, palms, and other low-lying plants

(a primary consumer)

three horns on its face

large bony plate projecting from the back of its skull (called a frill)

two longer horns

short horn above its parrot-like beak

provided protection from predators.

up to 25 feet (8 m) long

large skull, up to 10 feet (3 m) long.

15 to 20 feet (4.6 to 6 m) tall

5 to 7 tons.

western Canada

western United States.

Triceratops fossils have been found,

Othniel Marsh named Triceratops from a fossil found near Denver, Colorado, USA, in 1889.