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Cognitive Neuroscience of “Learning with New Media”

I’ve been thinking a bit about the use of research methods, frameworks and theories from cognitive neuroscience to the field of educational media or learning with digital tools… I’ve got no idea whether this has been done, whether it’s really possible and sensible… I should do some bibliographic research on this topic, soon…  Posted via […]

2 July 2009 at 07:52 - Comments

New Book: "Auf der Suche nach Lew Wygotski" by R.A.P. Reuter (Ed.)

I’ve edited a new book with my students’ research projects on Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory of learning and development. You can buy it as a print-on-demand book or as a PDF-download. Auf der Suche nach Lew Wygotski   Your comments are welcome! Posted via email from the material mind 0

2 July 2009 at 07:52 - Comments

Sunset

Just a beautiful sight of the City of Luxembourg I’ve shot last Thursday. It was taken on the Rue de Trèves, leading to Cents from the Grund. Posted via email from the material mind 0

2 July 2009 at 07:52 - Comments

Packup – not always useful…

I’ve just got a call from a rapid-delivery service provider telling me that they’ve got a pack for me, and that they cannot delivery it at my packup station! Apparently because the P&T considers them as "enemies" and does not allow them to enter their packup station system… That is so stupid… How am I […]

2 July 2009 at 07:52 - Comments

New Book Arrival: "Auf der Suche nach Lew Wygotski"

The first exemplars of my newly edited Book on Vygotsky has arrived this morning… very nice!!! Posted via email from the material mind 0

2 July 2009 at 07:52 - Comments

Excellent TED.COM speech on creativity and the way school kills it in kids…

This is an excellent, very informative, thought-provoking and funny speech by Sir Ken Robinson on the question whether schools kill creativity. Very inspiring, indeed… and now I finally know what the function of my body (that thing below the neck) is good for… getting my head to meetings… wow, that’s so strangely true 🙂   Posted […]

2 July 2009 at 07:52 - Comments

Invention Concept: MMHTSP – Multi-Media Hyper-Text for Scientific Papers

I’ve had this idea of designing a new tool/interface for reading/working with scientific papers some months ago… On the left, big part of the screen, one would have the actual paper and on the right there would be several boxes with different kinds of resources, e.g. the papers referenced in the text as hyperlinked PDF […]

2 July 2009 at 07:52 - Comments

Consciousness and Spatial Cognition

In a rich and complex visual environment with informational overload, visuo-spatial cognition needs to be selective when it comes to representing relevant objects and locations in space. Hopefully, the visual world is structured, since objects and events tend to co-occur in predictable invariant ways (Biederman, 1972). Knowledge about such redundancies and regularities in the visual […]

2 July 2009 at 07:51 - Comments

Pairing Plantronics Explorer 320 Bluetooth Headset

I’ve found a forgotten bluetooth headset… a Plantronics Explorer 320, and wondered how to pair it with the iPhone 3G… and after some googling, I’ve found these instructions: How do I pair the Explorer 320 headset with my phone? Begin with the headset turned off. Press and hold down the silver call control button in for 6-10 […]

2 July 2009 at 07:51 - Comments

What would I have looked like, if…

The website http://www.yearbookyourself.com/ gives you the possibility to see what you would have looked like, if you had graduated from High School in 1950, 1968, 1978, 1980 or 2000, and so on… Here is a “best of” of myself virtually transposed into different yearbooks…  It’s quite funny… I actually look a bit like my dad, back […]

2 July 2009 at 07:51 - Comments