Act I of 3 · 42 entries
How we came to think about learning
Before we can build anything that actually helps people learn, we have to be honest about where our ideas of learning came from.
This is where the argument starts. Everything the later Acts take issue with is set up here.
The 42 entries in Act I
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Abductive Reasoning
Theory: Abductive Reasoning | Template: The Confession | Words: 1,608
- Long-formArticle 2· Awaiting publication
Behaviourism
Theory: Behaviourism | Template: The Confession | Words: 1,820
- Long-formArticle 3· Awaiting publication
Cognitivism
Theory: Cognitivism & Information Processing | Template: The Confession | Words: 1,803
- Long-formArticle 4· Awaiting publication
Constructivism
Theory: Constructivism | Template: The Confession | Words: 1,647
- Long-formArticle 5· Awaiting publication
Social Constructivism
Theory: Social Constructivism | Template: The Follow-Up | Words: 1,541
- Long-formArticle 6· Awaiting publication
Zone Of Proximal Development
Theory: Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development | Template: The Follow-Up | Words: 1,499
- Long-formArticle 7· Awaiting publication
Ecological Systems
Theory: Ecological Systems Theory | Template: The Deep Dive | Words: 1,519
- Long-formArticle 8· Awaiting publication
Bloom'S Taxonomy
Theory: Bloom's Taxonomy | Template: The Deep Dive | Words: 1,571
- Long-formArticle 9· Awaiting publication
Solo Taxonomy
Theory: SOLO Taxonomy | Template: The Confession | Words: 1,867
- Long-formArticle 10· Awaiting publication
Gagné'S Nine Events
Theory: Gagné's Nine Events of Instruction | Template: The Follow-Up | Words: 1,859
- Long-formArticle 11· Awaiting publication
Experiential Learning
Theory: Experiential Learning Theory | Template: The Follow-Up | Words: 1,615
- Long-formArticle 12· Awaiting publication
Cognitive Load
Theory: Cognitive Load Theory | Template: The Confession | Words: 1,674
- Long-formArticle 13· Awaiting publication
Executive Function
Theory: Executive Function in Learning | Template: The Follow-Up | Words: 1,794
- Long-formArticle 14· Awaiting publication
Self-Determination Theory
Theory: Self-Determination Theory | Template: The Follow-Up | Words: 1,679
- Long-formArticle 15· Awaiting publication
Self-Regulated Learning
Theory: Self-Regulated Learning | Template: The Follow-Up | Words: 1,705
- Long-formArticle 16· Awaiting publication
Heutagogy
Theory: Heutagogy and Self-Determined Learning | Template: The Follow-Up | Words: 1,560
- Long-formArticle 17· Awaiting publication
Connectivism
Theory: Connectivism | Template: The Confession | Words: 1,889
- Long-formArticle 18· Awaiting publication
Dreyfus Model
Theory: The Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition | Template: The Confession | Words: 1,761
- Long-formArticle 19· Awaiting publication
Simpson'S Psychomotor Taxonomy
Theory: Simpson's Psychomotor Taxonomy | Template: The Confession | Words: 1,801
- Long-formArticle 20· Awaiting publication
Holland'S Riasec
Theory: Holland's RIASEC Model | Template: The Confession | Words: 1,760
- Long-formArticle 21· Awaiting publication
Enneagram
Theory: The Enneagram as Learning Disposition | Template: The Confession | Words: 2,063
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Abductive Reasoning
There is a kind of thinking you do every day that nobody ever taught you to name.
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Behaviourism
Every app on your phone is running the same experiment on you.
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Cognitivism
For most of modern psychology's history, nobody was allowed to talk about thinking.
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Constructivism
You have sat through a brilliant presentation and remembered nothing.
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Social Constructivism
You did not learn most of what you know on your own, even though it feels that way.
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Zone Of Proximal Development
Children learn the most when they are working on things they cannot quite do alone yet.
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Ecological Systems
Every child you have ever met arrived at school already shaped by things the school will never see.
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Bloom'S Taxonomy
You have probably seen the pyramid. It was not in the original.
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Solo Taxonomy
There is a difference between knowing one fact, and knowing how facts fit together, and it is not a difference of quantity.
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Gagné'S Nine Events
Every good teacher does nine things, whether they realise it or not.
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Experiential Learning
Doing something is not the same as learning from it.
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Cognitive Load
Simple is not always better. Sometimes simple is just emptier.
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Executive Function
Paying attention is not the same thing as learning well.
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Self-Determination Theory
The oldest trick for getting someone to do something is to pay them for it, and it often backfires.
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Self-Regulated Learning
The single biggest predictor of whether someone keeps getting better at something is not talent.
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Heutagogy
Somewhere along the way, adults forget how to decide what they want to learn.
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Connectivism
You are smarter than you used to be, and you are not.
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Dreyfus Model
An expert solves a problem differently from a beginner, and the difference is not that the expert knows more rules.
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Simpson'S Psychomotor Taxonomy
Learning to tie a shoelace involves seven quiet stages, and most of us cannot name a single one of them.
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Holland'S Riasec
The career test you took in school was almost certainly based on this, and almost certainly oversold to you.
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Enneagram
Most personality systems try to describe who you are. The Enneagram tries to describe what you are afraid of.