My interest is in designing sustainable human learning solutions for complex and emergent problems and domains. That includes using multiple learning sciences approaches, interdisciplinary exploration for ideas and solutions, adding diversity(cognitive and other), designing for evolvability and autopoiesis, ecological grounding using perspectives like 4E cognition(embodied, embedded, extended, enacted) and other ecological approaches, etc.
The arguments followed by “evidence-based” + x, y, z, learning, education, policy, etc. carries a lot of credibility and authority. Ideas promoted using “evidence” tag often evades scrutiny and criticism. After I got exposed to ideas like Goodhart’s law, Campbell’s law, Metric fixation, e.g. I started to see the irony of “evidence based arguments”. This … Continue reading Questioning the Un-questionable: “Evidence-Based”
Ludic Pedagogy is a teaching philosophy that embraces the importance of fun, play, playfulness, and humor—without sacrificing academic or intellectual rigor.
Great video by George Siemens on connectivism. He explains how his blogging practice led him to develop a very different relationship with other people and with knowledge than what he experienced when he was learning in a classroom. To him the biggest difference was the way in which people are aware of one another while … Continue reading Connectivism – Dr George Siemens
