Re: [xmca] whats-the-most-natural-way-to-learn-it-might-surprise-you/

["Ian O'Byrne" <wiobyrne@gmail.com>]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for sending this along. It will be interesting to see how/if this
thinking about learning and apprenticeship can/will be used in developing
online learning...and MOOCs.

-Ian

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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:55 AM, <ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org> wrote:

> Yes Michael, I like the thought but unfortunately google is stuck just
> like Kleenex, band-aids, kool-aid, etc. have in american english.  Curious
> if those are used internationally or not.
>
> eric
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> Date: 06/18/2013 09:39AM
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> whats-the-most-natural-way-to-learn-it-might-surprise-you/
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>
> Michael,
> I smiled when I read *I'm trying to stop using Google as a verb*.
>
> Seems that THIS transformation, as the development of a new *meaning*, is
> an example of learning as shared understandings.
> larry
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Glassman, Michael <glassman.13@osu.edu
> >wrote:
>
> > Interesting but so incredibly individualized.  Willingham seems to leave
> > out the most obvious and I would say most common way we learn to get a
> cup
> > of coffee.  We ask somebody, "Hey, where can I get a cup of coffee?"  And
> > usually the person, even a stranger will stop to tell you and probably
> give
> > you directions.  If they see you later they might ask you how you liked
> > your cup of coffee.  Today, we actually type "Where can I get a good cup
> of
> > coffee near.... in Paris" into your browser (I am trying to stop using
> > Google as a verb).  Possibilities pop up with a review.  You choose one,
> > you go to the coffee shop, you drink the coffee and are perhaps so
> > impressed or unimpressed you write a review.  Or perhaps you use the
> > Netflix model,  you go on a site called NetCoffee and type in Paris and
> > NetCoffee comes back with some suggestions based on the opinions of
> people
> > who like the same type of coffee you like (hey if anybody does that I
> get a
> > piece of the action!!).  But I almost always like the movies Netflix
> > recommends based on my history and how other people with similar
> histories
> > like it - and I trust is more than my brother.  We have to expand our
> > horizons I think about how people learn and what learning means.
> >
> > Michael
> > ________________________________________
> > From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] on
> behalf
> > of Martin Kramer [mkramer65@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 7:09 AM
> > To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> > Subject: Re: [xmca]
> > whats-the-most-natural-way-to-learn-it-might-surprise-you/
> >
> > Thanks for pointing us there, giving a demonstration of what's covered
> > there!
> > Martin
> >
> > Von meinem iPhone gesendet
> >
> > Am 18.06.2013 um 12:04 schrieb Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu>:
> >
> > >
> >
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/06/17/whats-the-most-natural-way-to-learn-it-might-surprise-you/
> > >
> > > The author, Daniel Willingham, is a straight-up cognitive
> > psychologist-interesting to see him essentially promoting a
> > cultural-historical perspective in this essay. p
> > >
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