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John McCarthy – Pioneer of AI

Posted on October 27, 2011 by bat

You may have heard that John McCarthy died this week. See http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/october/john-mccarthy-obit-102511.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/25/john-mccarthy John was an early pioneer of AI, inventor of Lisp, and indeed originator of the term “AI” in 1956. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist). It is good to see how … Continue reading →

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Junior Hairdresser – Final Assessment

Posted on October 26, 2011 by bat

Here is my assessment as a trainee hairdresser on blow drying… from the first go to my final attempt on a live model today.

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Junior Hairdresser – Live Model

Posted on October 26, 2011 by bat

Emma very patiently let me do her hair today during my training session: I now have access to the Hairdressing Foundations e-Teaching course at http://eteachhairdressing.co.uk along with some exercises to complete there. I have also been given Hairdressing Trainee Model … Continue reading →

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Junior Hairdresser – Passing on the Skill

Posted on October 25, 2011 by bat

For a full photo diary and report on my ULOE11 Learning Challenge see http://atate.org/mscel/hair/

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Reflections on Week 5.2 – Choice and Work Style

Posted on October 23, 2011 by bat

In the last week I have been discussing my choices of module for semester 2, looking forward to the MSc dissertation and addressing choices of essay topic for ULOE11, amongst other assignment thoughts on IDEL11 and Digital Cultures. It has … Continue reading →

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Why Large Shared Spaces are Important for Collaboration

Posted on October 21, 2011 by bat

I am reading some papers by Don Norman, and one on “Distributed Cognition” (Norman, 1993) makes some very nice points about the value of large situation rooms and operations centres for providing a joint view of the current situation and … Continue reading →

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Junior Hairdresser – Homework 1

Posted on October 20, 2011 by bat
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Junior Hairdresser – Lesson 1

Posted on October 19, 2011 by bat

As part of my “Learning Challenge” for the Understanding Learning in the On-line Environment module, I have now had my first lesson… it was exciting going to class again and in a totally different environment. Reminds of the the great … Continue reading →

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Understanding Learning – Essay Notes

Posted on September 28, 2011 by bat

Essay Topics for Understanding Learning in On-line Environments Possible areas could pick up on my interests in mixed initiative tutorial environments, and the process-product planning cycle (relate to Carroll’s task-artifact cycle model – http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/task_artifact_cycle.html ). We could contrast the mixed-initiative … Continue reading →

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Understanding Learning – Learner Group – Emergency Response Training

Posted on September 16, 2011 by bat

Choice of Learner Group One element of my recent research has involved providing an instrumented virtual collaboration environment to allow emergency responders to train and perform experimental exercises together (Tate et al., 2010). This is both to improve their own … Continue reading →

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Understanding Learning – Learning Challenge

Posted on September 15, 2011 by bat

Choice of Challenge and Setup I had been considering an appropriate and suitably interesting, challenging and achievable learning task… I was intrigued to see that motor skills could be considered as well as more cognitive knowledge-based tasks. So I was … Continue reading →

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