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Posted in English, Psychology on Oct 22nd, 2009
After listening to Göte Nyman at TEDxHelsinki about Null hypothesis (H0), I just had to write down some thoughts that arose from it. First a recap:
Göte presented examples from popular news media, such as “coke and pepsi activate different areas of the brain”. Well duh, if they are experienced differently, someone might assume that the [...]
Anne Rongas pohtii visuaalisuutta kirjoituksessaan Väliäkö visuaalisella? ja sanoo mm.
Miksi visuaalinen on niin tärkeää (ainakin minulle)? Se on kuin arkkitehtuuri ja sisustus ja puutarhasuunnitelma ja liikennejärjestelyt. Jos verkossa visuaalisuus ei tue liikkujaa, ympäristö ei avaudu. Harva uskoo, mikä vaiva on luoda mahdollisimman havainnollista verkkoympäristöä. En todellakaan ole taitava tässä. Muut pankoot nyt paremmaksi.
Ympäristön nimeksi tuli [...]
Couldn’t get any sleep tonight (yet), so I decided to go through a bunch of learning and teaching related blogs and pick up any that interest me. Mainly I used the controversial top 100 educational blogs list and the Edublog 2006 awards basically opening all (well, at the time of this post, not all of [...]
Posted in English, Technology on Nov 30th, 2006
Flosse Posse commented in August on the absurdity of Blackboard’s eLearning patent claim. Now action is being taken, as the Software Freedom Law Center is demanding that the patent be reviewed and revoked if necessary.
The power of the networked community of people can be seen in the huge article on Wikipedia on the History of [...]
Posted in English, Learning, Psychology, Technology on Sep 16th, 2006
On the 12th of September the pedagogical faculty of the University of Helsinki hosted a panel talk Siltamat (in finnish) where, among others, Esko Kilpi was talking about how the frontline companies in far east are conducting business. It was refreshing to see someone actually use hype words like “web 2.0″, “blog” and “wiki” in [...]
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