Behaviourism Many thanks to Pretty and Jane for their stimuli!

As I mentioned, it made more sense to hold over some of Pretty's important issues on whether teenagers learn differently, to a time when we could do them more justice, but you might like to look at http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/knowlesa.htm for a summary of the andragogy case. We'll pick up on some of what she suggested about the "deep" and "surface" learning distinction in a week or two.

Jane asked you what you thought about the alleged evils of PowerPoint, and you thought plenty.

• Some of my later remarks are here; http://www.learningandteaching.info/teaching/media.htm.
• Edward Tufte's site is at www.edwardtufte.com.
• and his essay on the "Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" is here.
• See also his pages on PPt here (url too long to show) which goes head to head with Doug Johnson's "NRA" argument at www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/johnson/johnson003.shtml
• The Gettysburg address is at www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/
• and the Ian Parker article is at www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~wilkins/group/powerpt.html

Please note;

We did some re-balancing of the stimuli presentations, too; the running order is now:

• 26 Feb; Clare and Mary
• 5 March; Jessica, Kevin and Neil
• 12 March! (What happened to 12 March on the original schedule? It doesn't matter; it's back, and this time it's personal!) Or at least it is for Pat and Annette.
• 19 March; Maurice and John
• 26 March; Sarah and Bill
  

Meanwhile, back at "Behaviourism"

Check out last week's links, which include some of the videos I actually used this week. You might also be interested in;

• YouTube playlist "Skinner and Behaviourism" http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6439B7CD9DD445F9&page=1
• Video of clicker training of a cat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHA0FO9vTVA

My summary page on behaviourism is at www.learningandteaching.info/learning/behaviour.htm.

• Remember to follow up the links on the left of that page for more on anticipatory-avoidance learning and learned helplessness.

Books! Look at;

• SLATER L (2004) Opening Skinner's Box; great psychological experiments of the twentieth century London; Bloomsbury on Skinner and the myths surrounding him, and lots of other good stuff in a popular-science style.

That will do for now! See you next week to introduce cognitive models and to hear about "My Brain Hurts" from Clare, and "What 'thick' really means" from Mary.

Please feel free to comment below and add your own links.

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