#LearningScience - The Hardware and Software

Just #WorkingOutLoud today with an illustration for the next section of the?Learning Science?book that i’m working on with Sae Schatz and Geoff Stead .

Earlier we described how Learning Science techniques and tools can be considered in five categories:

[1] How people learn – a description of people’s brains and minds

[2] Factors that affect learning – a description of the variables that moderate learning

[3] Instructional Methods to enhance learning – conceptual tools we can use to (try to) positively influence learning

[4] Technology to facilitate learning – tangible tools we can use to (try to positively influence learning

[5] Assessment Methods – checks on learning outcomes, conditions, and/or tools

This illustration lives in the first of these sections, where we use the crude analogy of the neuroscience as ‘hardware’ and cognitive science as ‘software’.

I will share the full section when we have completed our final review. Coming back to this work today, after a holiday, i realise that we have already generated a pretty decent body of work. It’s still relatively early days, but we have made good progress and, more importantly, i think we are getting out heads and hands around the structure.