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Heuristics and Diffractive Practice
Heuristics can be useful in decisions, but it is important to diffract on them, considering their genesis, and the issues that may arise from them, but ultimately move with them, to support well informed, quick decision making.
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Cognitive Load Theory and Encoding in Outdoor Education
When taking a learner into a new environment for the first time, there is often so much information for them to take in. New Sights, new sounds, new smells, new sensations. We often underestimate how much information there is being fed into people that have rarely or never experienced the outdoors before. Nevertheless, we then
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If you want to resolve imposter syndrome, it starts with linguistics.
Ferdinand Saussure, a key thinker in semiotics, made a distinction between the signifier and the signified. The signifier, Saussure suggested, could be thought of any object or word that we can experience through our senses. For example, we can see a dog, we can hear them bark, we may stroke their fur, we may smell
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Measuring Learner Velocity
Velocity, as any good physicist will tell you, is the speed of an object in relation to its directional force. A car can move forwards and backwards, at various speeds, and even up and down in the wrong hands. This is an important idea to consider because as an object moves through space, it may
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This isn’t about running
In the same way that a good coach knows that for the athlete to perform at higher levels, their wider needs need to be catered for, a good teacher knows that for a learner to make progression in their learning, their wider needs need to be catered for.
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