Month / October 2015

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  • More behaviorism things

    We made a comic! It has some animals (and people) and quotes. You can download it here. And we also quizzed the class on behaviorism (in a kind of behaviorist style). Not sure how qualified we were to quiz people of the very basic understanding we had. But in true behaviorist fashion gold stars and…

  • Oh Behave!

    My tiny (or otherwise occupied with other things) brain had not pulled aside the “behave” part of the word in Behaviorism until now. We spent a day researching last week, and I started to understand the very basic principles of Behaviorist theory (i.e. using conditioning techniques on humans), but I wish it had occurred to…

  • Repeat after me: PED-A-GO-GY

    Finally I’ve learned how to pronounce the gulp-y-tongue-twister: pedagogy (see video below is you get stuck). I’ve just finished a week of Radical Pedagogy sessions. These consisted of deconstructing formal learning (education), critiquing traditional pedagogies, introducing critical pedagogies, and making steps towards developing a personal pedagogy of possibilities. In other words we discussed pedagogies a…

  • Mapping a process

    The methods and processes lecture today was about mapping and diagramming. The talk started with a reference to a paragraph from On Exactitude in Science written by Jorge Luis Borges. In the story cartographers create a map so accurate that they produce at a 1:1 scale, where the map is as big as the world…