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PRINCIPLES OF ADULT LEARNING on 2009-10-06
- autonomous and self-directed
- must show participants how the class will
  help them reach their goals
- 7 more annotations...
- - foundation of life experiences and
    knowledge
  - goal-oriented
  - relevancy-oriented
  - practical
  - respect
  - At least six factors serve as
    sources of motivation
  - enhance their reasons for
    enrolling and decrease the barriers
Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger and communities of practice on 2009-10-06
- communities of practice are everywhere and that we are generally involved in a
  number of them
- communities of practice are everywhere and that we are generally involved in a
  number of them
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- - communities of practice are everywhere and that we are generally involved in a
    number of them
  - communities of practice are everywhere and that we are generally involved in a
    number of them
  - communities of practice are everywhere and that we are generally involved in a
    number of them
  - communities of practice are everywhere and that we are generally involved in a
    number of them
  - everywhere
  - everywhere
  - communities of practice are everywhere and that we are generally involved in a
    number of them
  - communities of practice are everywhere and that we are generally involved in a
    number of them
  - communities
  - communities of practice are everywhere and that we are generally involved in a
    number of them
  - communities of practice are everywhere and that we are generally involved in a
    number of them
  - communities of practice are everywhere and that we are generally involved in a
    number of them
  - communities of practice are everywhere and that we are generally involved in a
    number of them
  - In some groups we are core members, in others we are more
    at the margins.
  - common activities
  - domain
  - community
  - practice
  - involved in a set of
    relationships over time
  - joint enterprise and identity
  - a shared repertoire of ideas, commitments
    and memories
  - to develop various resources such as tools,
    documents, routines, vocabulary and symbols that in some way carry the
    accumulated knowledge of the community
  - the ability to undertake larger or more complex
    activities and projects though cooperation, bind people together and help to
    facilitate relationship and trust
  - social capital
  - apprenticeships
  - Learning
    is, thus, not seen as the acquisition of knowledge by individuals so much as a
    process of social participation
  - nature of the situation
    impacts significantly
  - a concern with identity, with learning to speak, act and
    improvise in ways that make sense in the communit
  - Situated learning
  - being full participants in the world and in
    generating meaning
  - no sense to talk of knowledge that is decontextualized, abstract or
    general
  - New knowledge and learning are properly conceived as being located in
    communities of practice
  - the community of practice is weak or
    exhibits power relationships that seriously inhibit entry and participation
  - professionalized and
    bureaucratic institutions such as schools
  - communities of practice affect performance
  - an effective way for organizations to handle unstructured
    problems and to share knowledge outside of the traditional structural
    boundaries
  - means of
    developing and maintaining long-term organizational memory
  - how schooling,
    for example, might accommodate
  - Learning is in the conditions
    that bring people together and organize a point of contact that allows for
    particular pieces of information to take on a relevance; without the points of
    contact, without the system of relevancies, there is not learning, and there is
    little memory
  - implications for schools
  - must prioritize 'instruction that builds on
    children's interests in a collaborative way
  - to extend
    associational life within schools and
    other institutions
  - intimate connection between knowledge and activity
  - the extent to which education involves informed and committed
    action
Gaming for ??? - jhugamingsummer2009 on 2009-07-29
- dissociative thinking
- express creativity, imagination, and personal expression
- 2 more annotations...
- - personalities affect
  - licensure
Gaming for ??? - jhugamingsummer2009 on 2009-07-28
- escaping
- addicting qualities
- 2 more annotations...
- - no being judged on looks/color is very important
  - when she comes home from school and plays for awhile to unwind, then she seems to focus more on her homework
NYT: Will intelligent machines outsmart us? - The New York Times- msnbc.com on 2009-07-27
- discounted the possibility of highly centralized superintelligences and the idea that intelligence might spring spontaneously from the Internet
- threats to human jobs
Wii speeds up the rehab process - USATODAY.com on 2009-07-27
- most therapies demand considerable effort from the patient
- to put them in a different mentality
- 2 more annotations...
- - allows patients to work on weight bearing and increasing coordination, increasing strength and stability, increasing fine and gross motor skills
  - BacktoGolf therapy program
Gaming for ??? - jhugamingsummer2009 on 2009-07-27
- new generation of medical interventions
- accessibility and engagement
- 9 more annotations...
- - types
  - participate on equal terms (virtually)
  - scan & selection responses
  - spatial abilities
  - distraction from pain
  - prescribed
  - concentration
  - coordination/manual dexterity
  - opportunity to be a human being
Gaming for ??? - jhugamingsummer2009 on 2009-07-27
- behavior management strategy
- incentive
- 12 more annotations...
- - consequence for negative behavior
  - biggest/strongest and best looking is going to be the more aggressive player in the game
  - Army using games to help prevent soldiers from committing suicide
  - help older drivers stay alert
  - counseling
  - prevent dementia and memory loss
  - at risk students
  - a group of senior citizens at a home in Silver Spring MD and their new obsession with Wii
  - physical abilities
  - games that provide cooking simulations
  - physical therapy or rehabilitation
  - ame developers tend not to focus on improving accessibility for this population
Gaming for ??? - jhugamingsummer2009 on 2009-07-27
- How/why might folks use games for reasons other than the obvious purpose of entertaining, educating, or making money for the developer? Why?
- stress relief
- 21 more annotations...
- - meet new people
  - social issues
  - feel better about themselves
  - gwap and Mind Habits
  - more like wasting time
  - medical field
  - distract
  - Re-Mission to encourage young cancer patients to take their medications and help them stay positive
  - escape and procrastinate
  - Exercise
  - Creativity/Imagination
  - Control
  - New Personality/ Escape
  - Social Aspect
  - Male Memory
  - Hand Eye Coordination for Surgeons
  - Medical Treatment
  - video games and senior citizens
  - older drivers
  - prevent dementia and memory loss
  - exercising their brain
You Play a Game, Computers Get Smarter, AI Starts to Work on 2009-07-26
- Nicholas Carr
- transfer of human intelligence into machine intelligence
- 6 more annotations...
- - Luis von Ahn
  - CAPTCHAs
  - compared game design to to algorithm creation
  - Amazon's Mechanical Turk, for example, pays people to contribute their time to work on small, simple tasks called "Human Intelligence Tasks,"
  - human powered processing is the next big wave for computing
  - incorporate an element of "fun" into what is actually work

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