The OODA Loop Completes The Store Model
The Store Model contains weakness, such as its Central Executive, the “conscious part of the mind” that “coordinates incoming information with information in the system” and “controls attention.” This...
View ArticlePragmatic Vygotskianism
(Long time readers of this blog will notice a thematic similarity between this paper and my earlier post, PNM Theory is Critical Theory (And That’s A Good Thing). Psychologists has been described as...
View ArticleComputer Games Aren’t Bad For You, and The Internet Is Good For You
The text’s statements on computer games are doubtful. It states that “an increasing number of studies show that playing violent games, like watching violent TV, increases hostility and aggression.”...
View ArticleChomsky’s Language Module
I greatly admire Noam Chomsky. While his political theories border on the zany, he is a first rate researcher and a first rate scientist. He is justly viewed as a founding father of cognitive...
View ArticleSocial Motivation, Amongst Other Notes
Albanese, Robert, & van Fleet, David D. (1985). Rational Behavior in Groups: The Free-Riding Tendency. The Academy of Management Review 10(2):244-255. Beins, B.C. (2002). Technology in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Student Nature, Part I: The Nature of the Student
In the context of education, the human mind expresses genetic factors in four ways: universally among the species, differently by age, differently by sex, differently by group, or differently by type....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Student Nature, Part II: The Natures of Our Students
Humans vary by sex, and not just in the preferred hip-to-waist ratio (Singh, 1993, 293). Firing the President of Harvard for wondering if this is true does not make facts go away (Pinker, 2006). Men...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Student Nature, Part III: Nature and Her Consequences
This series doe not argue that only genes matter. The emergent rules of complex systems (Bloom, 2000; Johnson, 2006, 2), in addition to more mundane matters such as instructional processes (Beins,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Student Nature, Part IV: Bibliography
As with the bibliography for Learning Evolved, the citations are close to APA Style. Entries starting with “A” are above the fold, and the rest are below Albanese, Robert, & van Fleet, David D....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Growing Pack Behavior in Juvenile Homo Sapiens
I threw together this presentation, entitled Growing Pack Behavior in Juvenile Homo Sapiens — or — Making Kids Play Nice for an in-class presentation today presentation. Enjoy! Putting Humanity, and...
View Article
