James Atherton
Sandra Dodd
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Dr James Atherton
www.learningandteaching.info
www.doceo.co.uk
May contain nuts.
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I exchanged a couple of e-mails with James Atherton, who studies (in
quite an unschooling kind of way) and writes about learning in a way
most-to-all of you would really appreciate.
But I just noticed as I was filing the letters ("filing" on my
computer) his sigline: "May contain nuts," in reference to his
webpages, which have really easy access to some other theorists'
ideas too. <g>
Here's a great directory page to the learning theories. Even if you
just like graphics or page design and don't care about the content,
it's worth a look:
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/
I loved this, from his resume:
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Current research
Further development of doctoral research in the light of theories of
complex adaptive systems
Computer-aided and experiential learning
Unintentional learning and hidden curriculum in FE/HE/professional
training
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Lots of what he's writing about has to do with adult education, the
kind of training businesses do with/for/on their employees, and
that. I used one of his graphs on this page, which I don't think I
had announced yet:
http://sandradodd.com/intelligences
and we corresponded about that and some other stuff, but it was (from
my point of view) concerning a philosophy discussion series I'm
having within the SCA.
Those of you who care about such things as models of learning,
though, could find some cool things to think about, like this page
that talks about different ways of learning, and one is a pretty
clear picture of the "collect the dots" stuff I've talked about at
conferences. You don't need to read the words; the graphs are clear:
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/pask.htm#serialists
I like the way his pages have comment boxes and links along the side
as you learn. I might try to learn that code trick.
Here's something on learning curves and that second graph is really
helpful to me, to see how something can be useful even if it's not
yet "internalized" (second nature).
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/learning_curve.htm
Sandra
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Dr James Atherton
www.learningandteaching.info
www.doceo.co.uk
May contain nuts.
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I exchanged a couple of e-mails with James Atherton, who studies (in
quite an unschooling kind of way) and writes about learning in a way
most-to-all of you would really appreciate.
But I just noticed as I was filing the letters ("filing" on my
computer) his sigline: "May contain nuts," in reference to his
webpages, which have really easy access to some other theorists'
ideas too. <g>
Here's a great directory page to the learning theories. Even if you
just like graphics or page design and don't care about the content,
it's worth a look:
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/
I loved this, from his resume:
========================================================================
=============
Current research
Further development of doctoral research in the light of theories of
complex adaptive systems
Computer-aided and experiential learning
Unintentional learning and hidden curriculum in FE/HE/professional
training
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------
Lots of what he's writing about has to do with adult education, the
kind of training businesses do with/for/on their employees, and
that. I used one of his graphs on this page, which I don't think I
had announced yet:
http://sandradodd.com/intelligences
and we corresponded about that and some other stuff, but it was (from
my point of view) concerning a philosophy discussion series I'm
having within the SCA.
Those of you who care about such things as models of learning,
though, could find some cool things to think about, like this page
that talks about different ways of learning, and one is a pretty
clear picture of the "collect the dots" stuff I've talked about at
conferences. You don't need to read the words; the graphs are clear:
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/pask.htm#serialists
I like the way his pages have comment boxes and links along the side
as you learn. I might try to learn that code trick.
Here's something on learning curves and that second graph is really
helpful to me, to see how something can be useful even if it's not
yet "internalized" (second nature).
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/learning_curve.htm
Sandra
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