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  1. Feb 2024
  2. Sep 2023
    1. cognitive development research

      While I could have missed it (and I most likely did), this article would have been more meaningful if effective strategies were presented to support a child's brain development.

    2. earned an abstract regularity, and your knowledge of that regularity precedes your learning of the specific color in Bag 3 or, for that matter, any other remaining bag. Note that this abstract structure was certainly not innate, it was learned.

      When would children have learned to think this way if not innate?

  3. Aug 2023
    1. many of those empirical claims have been overturned.

      If these claims have been overturned, why are Piaget's stages of development still widely taught and referenced? What am I misunderstanding here?

      Nortje, A. (2023, March 9). Piaget’s stages: 4 stages of Cognitive Development & Theory. PositivePsychology.com. https://positivepsychology.com/piaget-stages-theory/#:~:text=Piaget%20argued%20that%20children’s%20cognitive,changes%2C%20reflecting%20these%20cognitive%20developments.

    1. Particularly in thecase of widely used educational tools, deci-sions taken by a small number of designersshape the way educators have to think aboutteaching and learning with technology.

      This is a perpetual problem for educators. Whether it is curriculum designers or educational technology, people expect educators and students to adapt and make due to inefficient and insufficient tools instead of creating tools that are applicable to diverse learners and learning spaces.