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		<title>How to be disruptive: a retrospective primer, with meerkats.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Disruptive&#8217; doesn&#8217;t mean what it used to mean. Being disruptive used to mean you&#8217;d be in trouble pretty soon: with your teachers, your parents; with other kids&#8217; parents. You know — grown-ups. Back then, being disruptive was seen as bad, &#8230; <a href="http://finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/how-to-be-disruptive-a-retrospective-primer-with-meerkats/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7611169&amp;post=528&amp;subd=finiteattentionspan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting learners to build things out of concrete (examples, that is).</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is not about assessment. A few weeks ago, before every other word on the internet became Wikileaks*, there was a lot of buzz about this piece in The Chronicle by someone who writes students&#8217; essays for them, for &#8230; <a href="http://finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/getting-learners-to-build-things-themselves-out-of-concrete-examples-that-is/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7611169&amp;post=490&amp;subd=finiteattentionspan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Gets Better: how vocational educators can stay sane and relevant in H.E.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The persistence of the myth that &#8220;those who can&#8217;t do, teach&#8221; is incredibly damaging. Academics who spend more time and effort on their teaching than on their research are often looked down on — not by their peers (most of whom &#8230; <a href="http://finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/it-gets-better-how-vocational-educators-can-stay-sane-and-relevant-in-he/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7611169&amp;post=461&amp;subd=finiteattentionspan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to become a big e-learning nerd by mistake</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inherit a class. Inherit a class containing a really, really, really dully, repetitive, and entirely necessary component. One that the students must repeat ad nauseam, because rote-learning is the only thing that&#8217;s going to make a difference. Anything involving students &#8230; <a href="http://finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/how-to-become-a-big-e-learning-nerd-by-mistake/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7611169&amp;post=440&amp;subd=finiteattentionspan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How your meetings could be more like classes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I read a post by Rands about how to run a meeting, and was blown away. Not because of Rands&#8217; excellent writing (though it is; it always is), but because in explaining the attentional dynamics of how to run &#8230; <a href="http://finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/how-your-meetings-could-be-more-like-classes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7611169&amp;post=435&amp;subd=finiteattentionspan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On success and reward in academia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s been six months since I blogged here, which is frankly atrocious. Having said that, it doesn&#8217;t really feel like six months, because everything is whooshing past at such a rate (although interestingly, while we all like to agree &#8230; <a href="http://finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/on-success-and-reward-in-academia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7611169&amp;post=422&amp;subd=finiteattentionspan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell: the power of questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists are not trained to ask questions. No, excuse me — scientists are absolutely trained to ask questions. In the lab. In the lab we are rabid information ferrets, and we will run up every trouserleg that the great wardrobe in &#8230; <a href="http://finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/ask-dont-tell-the-power-of-questions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7611169&amp;post=406&amp;subd=finiteattentionspan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The search for context in education and journalism (wicked problems, Wikipedia, and the rise of the info-ferret)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a January evening, a schoolnight, and I&#8217;m sitting on my sofa thinking Stuff it. I&#8217;m tired and it&#8217;s dark and I worked hard today, damn it. It&#8217;s pretty hard, at that moment, to engage with with the things I &#8230; <a href="http://finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/the-search-for-context-in-education-and-journalism-wicked-problems-wikipedia-and-the-rise-of-the-info-ferret/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7611169&amp;post=396&amp;subd=finiteattentionspan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why experts are morons: a recipe for academic success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning there was quite a bit of tweeting, back and forth, about this article and exactly how stupid it is. &#8220;If our attention span constricts to the point where we can only take information in 140-character sentences, then that &#8230; <a href="http://finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/why-experts-are-morons-a-recipe-for-academic-success/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7611169&amp;post=375&amp;subd=finiteattentionspan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When giving presentations, the only rule that matters is the rule of attention</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was discussing presentations with a friend who is a student. Although being asked to make a presentation is a fairly common part of the student experience, and he has a reasonable idea of what&#8217;s involved, nobody has ever &#8230; <a href="http://finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-only-rule-about-giving-presentations-that-matters-is-the-rule-of-attention/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7611169&amp;post=344&amp;subd=finiteattentionspan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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