Tag Archives | intelligence

Note: Click on any word on this page (and click it again) to experience the Online Learning Support Net (OLSN).
implicate-order-learning-sm

Implicate Orders in Learning

Framing human learning as an “implicately ordered and implicately ordering participation in the flow of now” is a beautiful and profound way to capture its dynamic nature.

Continue Reading 12
Note: Click on any word on this page (and click it again) to experience the Online Learning Support Net (OLSN).
determined

Is Free Will Determined By Learning?

Stanford University professor Robert Sapolsky just released a new book called: Determined A Science of Life Without Free Will How could a field-leading behavioral neuroscientist claim we have no free will?  He’s not being tricky. He has scientifically arrived at the conclusion that what we commonly call free will is an illusion. You can get […]

Continue Reading 0
Note: Click on any word on this page (and click it again) to experience the Online Learning Support Net (OLSN).
mirror misconception 710

What I Learned From Polling You

In a recent poll, I asked: “Within their possible agency, what’s more important to children’s futures than how well they can learn?” I gave two quick-choice responses and invited comments: 1 – Some things are more important 2 – Nothing is more important Between LinkedIn and Facebook, the poll received around 10,000 impressions, but only […]

Continue Reading 1
Note: Click on any word on this page (and click it again) to experience the Online Learning Support Net (OLSN).
in other words - character

Learning: Character

 “The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become” – Heraclitus “It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy. That is all that really passes for destiny. And you choose it. No one else can give it to […]

Continue Reading 15
Note: Click on any word on this page (and click it again) to experience the Online Learning Support Net (OLSN).
we learned to

OUR WORSENING NATIONAL LEARNING CRISIS – PISA 2019

NATIONAL LEARNING CRISIS The founders of the U.S. created a framework that liberated, enabled, and ignited a more learning-oriented way of being united. Not perfect, but more perfect. More perfectly conducive to a new kind of collective learning that ultimately lead us to become the world’s most intelligent nation. Today, predatorily stupidified by the machinations […]

Continue Reading 4
Note: Click on any word on this page (and click it again) to experience the Online Learning Support Net (OLSN).

Update: Children of the Code: CHANGING TRAJECTORIES – the Final Chapter

“CHANGING TRAJECTORIES” is the final chapter of Phase I of COTC and includes our suggestions and tips for improving the learning trajectories of struggling readers.

Continue Reading 0
Note: Click on any word on this page (and click it again) to experience the Online Learning Support Net (OLSN).

Our government is what our population has learned it to be.

Our national political conversation is devoid of even mentioning the central issue that, within two decades, will most determine our nation’s fate: our most distinctive competency – our only long term competitive advantage – our collective intelligence.

Continue Reading 4
Note: Click on any word on this page (and click it again) to experience the Online Learning Support Net (OLSN).

Is Inequality A Matter of Choice?

The attribution of choice lies at the heart of virtually all forms of social inequality and what might also be called “self-inequality”. How we hold ourselves responsible for our choices forms much of the basis for how proud or ashamed of ourselves we are. How we hold others responsible for their choices forms much of […]

Continue Reading 3
Note: Click on any word on this page (and click it again) to experience the Online Learning Support Net (OLSN).

Higher Vocabulary ~ Higher Intelligence ~ Higher Income = Reading Matters

Higher Vocabulary ~ Higher Intelligence ~ Higher Income = Reading Matters It must be added that the differences in vocabulary here are not differences learned in oral conversation. After grade 4 vocabulary growth is largely driven through literacy not speech.  Because most of the difference in adult vocabulary is a result of reading, using vocabulary as […]

Continue Reading 1
Note: Click on any word on this page (and click it again) to experience the Online Learning Support Net (OLSN).

IQ Learning

Working Memory: IQ is not fixed. For better and worse, learning changes IQ. Because intelligence both shapes and is shaped by learning our conversation about the plasticity of IQ is another case in point for: “I” become the “me” I learn to be.

Continue Reading 0