Striking Out. The morning commute today is more of an adventure then most days due to a bus drivers strike (see one short account here). Traffic, which is usually very heavy because of our overloaded highways, began slowing down even earlier than normal. Of course, it is purely coincidental that the strike was set to start on the first day of public school getting back in session. See some of the traffic cams here to see how things are going, or not, as the case may be.
Apply Yourself. Follow this link here to a paper on applied learning. That is, a paper that tries to make a link between a theory of learning and how to apply what it infers.
The human mind evolves by arranging perceptions by means of connections. Applied to learning, this means that it is important to understand how the mind makes connections, at different moments in time, and to develop tasks and learning experiences that complement the connection patterns and preferences. This paper outlines some of the categories around which adults perceive and to develop connections, and offers practical applications for online learning within the framework of those categories.
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