If you click here, you will be taken to a 'realitymap' page that
provides information about and links to the following various
pages,'George Kelly' and his construct theory, 'meaningfulness',
'iteration', 'thought codes', 'cognition' and 5 levels of mental
growth. These are 'conjecture', 'convergence', 'patterns', 'unity'
'gestalt' 'pmor'. This information will be on the 'realitymap' page in
the same manner as it is on this page.
Karl Popper
If you click here, you will be taken to the Karl Popper page which will
convey Popper's understanding of how learning to take place. It covers
his ideas concerning the need for the universal invariece that allows
the world to make sense, as well as ideas concerning the three worlds
of knowledge, the objective world of reality, the subjective world
within each mind, and the world of human collective knowledge.
Plasticity
This page covers such topics as neurogenisis, how the brain renews its
cells, neuroplasticity, how the brain changes through learning and
adapts to damage and aging. The ever changing brain is explained as how
learning is accomplished. The brain's adaptability is explained as
brain map reasignment which happens through brain expantion, sensory
reasignment, compensatory masquerade and mirror region takeover.
Maria Montessori
If you click here, you will be taken to the Maria Montessori page that
conveys the contributions by her to the understanding of learning. It
covers the idea that learning is facilitated through the provision of
optimal environments for it to take place in and her ideas of sensitive
periods in which learning most readily takes place. It also covers her
ideas about how learning must be an active process rather than passive.
The Art of Knowing
If you click here, you will be taken to the 'knowing' page. This page
is about how we can know if information coming from experts is correct
or not. Learnig is of course of no use to us if the information we are
accumulating is wrong. What we need is some way of accessing experts to
find what information is trustworth. This page seeks to provide us with
this help to determine whether expert information is likely to be
correct or not.
Neuroscience
If you click here, you will be taken to the neuroscience page. This
page covers the latest developments neuroscience and how this new
understanding is related to and essential in learning. This covers many
topics as expressed in John Medina's brain rules such as stress, sleep
and dreaming, exercise, attention, brain wiring, survival, vision,
gender and exploration. Also covered are imitation and prevention of
brain deterioration.
Interests
If you click here, you will be taken to an 'interests' map page that
provides information about and links to various pages concerning, a
reinterpretation of B. F. Skinner's work, 'associations', 'context',
'Bateson', 'reinforcement', 'mind threads', 'the spiral path' and
'intrinsic motives'. The information concerning those pages, will be
provided on that 'interests' map page in the same manner as it is on
this page.
Hierarchy of Needs
If you click here, you will be taken to a needs map page that provides
information about and links to various pages concerning Maslow and his
hierarchy. The information concerning those pages, will be provided on
that needs map page in the same manner as it is on this page. The
information will cover pages that will include, an overview page of
Maslow's work and pages for each of the need levels in his hierarchy of
needs.
Memory
If you click here, you will be taken to the memory page. This site
proposes that memories are a web of connections. This explains why, the
more elaborated these webs become, the more entry points there are for
reaching the memory. This page covers most of the different types of
memory that occur in our brains and how these types of memory relate to
learning. It also covers how recall of these memories functions.
Self Control
If you click here, you will be taken to the self-control page wher you
can learn how to control your unconscious mind. This page attempts to
show how bad habits may be replaced by good ones by reprogramming the
automatic or robotic part of the mind and replacing self destructive
routines with healthy self enhancing ones. The page also expains how
this is dependent on connecting to and investing in our personal
future.
