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Here’s an unusual but potentially very useful instructional strategy, one that takes advantage of peoples’ need for resolution or for closure. The Zeigarnik effect states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed ones.
Russian psychologies Bluma Zeigarnik first studied the phenomenon in the late 1920’s after her professor, Gestalt psychologist Kurt [...]

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Here’s an unusual but potentially very useful instructional strategy, one that takes advantage of peoples’ need for resolution or for closure. The Zeigarnik effect states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed ones.
Russian psychologies Bluma Zeigarnik first studied the phenomenon in the late 1920’s after her professor, Gestalt psychologist Kurt [...]

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Today’s post is really a (very) mini case study in the power of integrated corporate social networks, the benefits of long tails in learning, and the strength of weak social ties.
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If you’re not familiar with the latter two concepts here’s a little background: the idea of the strength of [...]

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Today’s post is really a (very) mini case study in the power of integrated corporate social networks, the benefits of long tails in learning, and the strength of weak social ties.
Now read on…
If you’re not familiar with the latter two concepts here’s a little background: the idea of the strength of [...]

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There are a range of views on what the term ‘constructivism’ means in the context of learning, but it can be said that most definitions would agree that it has these characteristics:

Learning is an active process of constructing rather than acquiring knowledge and
Instruction is a process of supporting that construction rather than communicating [...]

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There are a range of views on what the term ‘constructivism’ means in the context of learning, but it can be said that most definitions would agree that it has these characteristics:

Learning is an active process of constructing rather than acquiring knowledge and
Instruction is a process of supporting that construction rather than communicating [...]

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Phase One: Using a Constructivist Theoretical Approach
Bruner’s 1966 text Toward a Theory of Instruction described the key principles of constructivism (p.225):
Table

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Phase One: Using a Constructivist Theoretical Approach
Bruner’s 1966 text Toward a Theory of Instruction described the key principles of constructivism (p.225):
Table 1 Principles of constructivism

Principle

Definition

Readiness

Instruction must be concerned with the experiences and contexts that make the student willing and able to learn

Spiral organisation

Structure.

The content must be [...]

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Whatever your views on George Orwell’s politics, I hope you agree with me that his writing style is the quintessence of English prose. I think that the influential English author and critic’s skills are particularly represented in his essays and short stories.
For no reason other than the relevance of his writing to the art of [...]

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Whatever your views on George Orwell’s politics, I hope you agree with me that his writing style is the quintessence of English prose. I think that the influential English author and critic’s skills are particularly represented in his essays and short stories.
For no reason other than the relevance of his writing to the art of [...]

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