http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/198 pragmatism over zeal Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:59:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/198/comment-page-1#comment-34043 OpenFiction [ Blog ] » Rip-mix-burned out Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:30:16 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/198#comment-34043 [...] * from David’s joke. [...] [...] * from David’s joke. [...]

]]> http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/198/comment-page-1#comment-808 iterating toward openness » Learning, Complexity, and Simplicity Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:28:43 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/198#comment-808 [...] ch other have an extended conversation about work via their blogs. Brett pushes back on my Gagne, Games, and Learning post with another of his own, lest we forget, learning is complex. It’s [...] [...] ch other have an extended conversation about work via their blogs. Brett pushes back on my Gagne, Games, and Learning post with another of his own, lest we forget, learning is complex. It’s [...]

]]> http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/198/comment-page-1#comment-807 brett Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:47:04 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/198#comment-807 Ah, Dr. Wiley, so good of you to chime in. I think you're confusing the underlying "mechanism" of how we, as humans, are able to interact with our environment, and how we are able to assertain complex understandings. Not that I disagree with schema theory, because I don't, but rather that instructional technology should have loftier goals than simple message design. I would also argue that games for instruction have failed not because they didn't have proper message design, but rather that the game-related activity is not aligned properly with the learning objectives. Does this count as a pre-defined instructional condition?.... Much more -> http://sheltonbrett.blogspot.com/2005/10/lest-we-forget-learning-is-complex.html Ah, Dr. Wiley, so good of you to chime in. I think you’re confusing the underlying “mechanism” of how we, as humans, are able to interact with our environment, and how we are able to assertain complex understandings. Not that I disagree with schema theory, because I don’t, but rather that instructional technology should have loftier goals than simple message design. I would also argue that games for instruction have failed not because they didn’t have proper message design, but rather that the game-related activity is not aligned properly with the learning objectives. Does this count as a pre-defined instructional condition?…. Much more -> http://sheltonbrett.blogspot.com/2005/10/lest-we-forget-learning-is-complex.html

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