“I don’t think I’m really all that intelligent, but I have a talent for amplifying my intelligence.” — R. D. G., 1975

“Just because you’ve used lots of software doesn’t mean you can write code. Just because you’ve been in lots of buildings doesn’t mean you can be an architect. And just because you’ve logged a million frequent flyer miles doesn’t mean you can fly a plane.”

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“‘Verbatim memory is often a property of being a novice,’ said Sloutsky, who is also associate dean of research at the university’s College of Human Ecology . ‘As people become smarter, they start to put things into categories, and one of the costs they pay is lower memory accuracy for individual differences.’”

“A few years ago, I was chatting with a stranger in a bar. When I told him I was an economist, he said, ‘Ah. SoÖ what are the Two Things about economics?’ ‘Huh?’ I cleverly replied. ‘You know, the Two Things. For every subject, there are really only two things you really need to know. Everything else is the application of those two things, or just not important.’î

Lou Rosenfeld: “I was poking around, Googling ‘information discovery,’ and stumbled on a simple but really useful diagram created by someone named Keith Stanger. Who happens to be a librarian (same background as me). Who works at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti (same county as me). Who lists Bloug on his blogroll. Very cool. Gotta love the serendipity of the Internet.”

“When you spend a decade working in Knowledge Management, you can’t help thinking a lot about how people learn. The book that first helped me understand the learning process was Nancy Dixon’s The Organizational Learning Cycle. Nancy was writing about ‘collective learning’, a subject I was already skeptical about even then: I was, and remain convinced that learning is an intensely personal, individual experience, and that we all learn differently.”

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“Welcome to the digital library of MIT Theses, a collection of selected MIT master’s and doctoral theses available online. Please note that this is NOT a complete collection of MIT theses. It includes only theses that were scanned by Document Services in the past few years, for printing or electronic delivery to requesters. The range of years represented in the collection, however, is 1888 to present.”

“It’s not that interactivity is a bad idea. It’s just too simplistic to be a useful guide for instructional design. It can even be dangerous.”

“My own educational experiences reflect most of the conditions and practices of the period between the end of World War II and the early fifties. Design education was quite different from what it is today. Students and young teachers deserve a deeper understanding of the evolution of design education as a means to better fathom present conditions in Graphic Design.”

“Welcome to a unique genre of education materials. Paper Plate Education is an initiative to reduce complex notions to simple paper plate explanations. This website promotes innovative hands-on activities that can be experienced across a range of interests, at varying degrees of complexity, and at a low price — all with common paper plates.”

“Graphic organizers are valuable instructional tools. Unlike many tools that just have one purpose, graphic organizers are flexible and endless in application. One common trait found among graphic organizers is that they show the order and completeness of a student’s thought process — strengths and weaknesses of understanding become clearly evident. Many graphic organizers show different aspects of an issue/problem — in close and also the big picture.”

Wow! “A whack on the fanny boosts your brain’s ability to store and recall information — and can help college students ace exams, a fascinating new study shows.”