N Shackleton-Jones

@shackletonjones

Author of 'How People Learn' Writes for posterity. Blogs on LinkedIN, aconventional

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    7 Jul 2019

    How People Learn: Affective Context - The First General Theory of Learning

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Interesting illustration of celebrity culture. Jobs was undoubtedly a terrible manager: rude, bullying, constantly squabbling & fostering political division - got fired for it, then re-hired for his bright ideas. But here he is, celebrated:

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  3. 4 hours ago

    Near Pangbourne

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  4. 7 hours ago

    Is your shadow a ‘great dancer’? [AI question] 😉

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  5. 8 hours ago

    The first portable Mac, 1989. The ‘launch of desktop presentations’:

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  6. Jul 31

    So basically somebody weaponised cheese:

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  7. Jul 31

    Mood:

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  8. Jul 30

    “Our evidence shows that robots increase productivity. They are very important for continued growth and for firms, but at the same time they destroy jobs and they reduce labor demand."

    A new study measures the actual impact of robots on jobs. It’s significant. | MIT Sloan Industrial robots do reduce jobs and wages — especially for workers in the automotive industry and certain parts of the country.
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    Jul 29

    This survey finds that 90+% of parents of color fear school reopening. Most distressing additional finding: 44% fear that without school, their children will not have enough to eat at home. Only 9% of white parents have that fear.

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  10. Jul 29

    It’s very unsettling living in a world where Kim Kardashian’s philosophy is more influential than that of, say, an actual philosopher.

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  11. Jul 28

    Nice touch from Uncle Roger & Hersha Patel ☺️

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  12. Jul 28

    Imagine someone saying: ‘you can’t go on holiday, but we’ve rigged a webcam to a pole overlooking the beach, and you can stare at it all you like’ (A metaphor for what many people are experiencing right now.)

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  13. Jul 28

    Corporate language is fascinating. It's designed to minimise affective dissonance: hence everything is expressed in vague, bland terms 'let's sense-check strategic alignment across the piece'. If someone is really upset they say 'I have some concerns...' & that's a tense moment.

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  14. Jul 28

    "Researchers have known about passive learning’s shortcomings for a long time."

    No Student Should Have to Sit Through a Zoom Lecture
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  15. Jul 26

    As Ernest Becker said 'each of us is the hero in our own story'

    The need to think of oneself as a "better person" than others is so deep-seated that it is even shared by violent criminals.
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  16. Jul 26

    Numb. A 3 minute film about how we didn’t understand learning, and it sucked worse than ever:

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  17. Jul 26

    Heidegger describes ‘Being-with’ (Mitsein) - as essential to human nature: we are always already with others of our kind. We are missing Being-with others, in a way that we cannot fully explain.

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  18. Jul 26

    For many of us, our office jobs now feel a bit like working in a contact centre: calls from dawn to dusk. That we struggle to articulate precisely why this is a very different experience, should hint at the gaps in our understanding of what it means to be human.

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  19. Jul 24

    Actual lol.

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  20. Jul 24

    I have a philosophy joke. But I’m not sure if it’s really a joke or not.

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  21. Jul 24

    Decent ditty from @brokeassgymrat

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