http://www.joelduffin.com/blog life is a rum go guv’nor, and that’s the truth Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:01:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week our family camped at Tony Grove Lake up Logan Canyon. The wildflowers were amazingly diverse and beautiful including these that Meghan spotted growing on a boulder in the lake. After morning hikes we swam in the lake which was surprisingly pleasant. The older kids and I explored polygamy cave. My Dad ... http://www.joelduffin.com/blog/2008/07/22/camping-at-tony-grove/ http://www.joelduffin.com/blog/2008/07/11/how-fun-is-that/ JCDL 2008 trip continued: On my way out of town I couldn't resist stopping by the PSLC to attend a lunch meeting where Turadg Aleahmad and Ido Roll were giving practice talks for ITS2008. Turadg presented on an online authoring tool designed for teachers to use to create worked example ... http://www.joelduffin.com/blog/2008/07/09/teacher-authoring-and-metacognition-at-the-pslc/ JCDL 2008 trip continued: I've watched Alice with interest for a number of years and my children and I have played with it. Naturally, Randy's last lecture renewed my interest. Wednesday morning I visited Drew at the Entertainment Technology Center that Randy co-founded. Drew was very kind to give me ... http://www.joelduffin.com/blog/2008/07/09/visiting-the-entertainment-technology-center/ JCDL 2008 trip continued: In Education and NSDL: Past, Present and Future, David McArthur presented the future of the NSDL as a platform from which to build. This is the right direction to head... hopefully not too late. The NSDL should provide additional services beyond search, it should provide web ... http://www.joelduffin.com/blog/2008/07/09/measuring-the-wrong-things/ JCDL 2008 trip continued: I talked with Bryan Chapman about aligning content with standards (see his paper Exploring Educational Standard Alignment: In Search of ‘Relevance’). He pointed me to the CNLP's Curriculum Assignment Tool and to the Teacher's Domain cross walking service as potential sources of tools and providers of ... http://www.joelduffin.com/blog/2008/07/09/aligning-content-with-standards/ I recently attended JCDL 2008 to present a poster on OER Recommender with Brandon. As usual, the interactions with people were the best part of the conference. Monday night I enjoyed good dinner with at Lidia's with David Tarrant and Max Wilson, PhD students from the University of Southampton England. ... http://www.joelduffin.com/blog/2008/07/09/jcdl-2008/ After years of keeping them in boxes, I recently got out my University Physics and Math books and put them on my shelves. Just getting them out inspired me :-). This morning while testing the Open Yale Courses feed that I had added to OER Recommender, I ran across the ... http://www.joelduffin.com/blog/2008/05/23/r-shankar-small-coincidences/ Math problem solving procedures are important tools in a problem solver's toolbox. Fluency at using those procedures frees up cognitive resources for problem solving. This is the component fluency hypothesis described by van Merriënboer in his book Training Complex Cognitive Skills and in an ETR&D article. These algorithmic skills are ... http://www.joelduffin.com/blog/2008/04/22/component-fluency-hypothesis/ Recently the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC) opened public access to a wiki version of their theoretical framework which had previously only been available in PDF format. Kurt VanLehn, one of the PSLC directors, and a pioneer in the field of intelligent tutoring systems, serves as editor. The framework ... http://www.joelduffin.com/blog/2008/04/22/pslc-theoretical-framework-wiki-opened/