#BuildingBlocks-of-#Learning #Scholarship #OpenScholarship #OpenLearning #AdaptiveLearning #ModularLearning

#BuildingBlocks-of-#Learning #Scholarship #OpenScholarship #OpenLearning #AdaptiveLearning #ModularLearning 

Poh-Sun Goh

11 May 2021, 5 May 2021, 0605am, Singapore Time

Our thinking, the way we perceive, and interpret our experience, choose our reaction to experience, formulate thought, and choose our action, our response through higher cognitive intentional decision making, and emotional regulation, rather than emotional or reflex reaction is founded on biology, the relative and dynamic interaction between our neocortex, our limbic system, and hindbrain-spinal cord level, modified by training, learning, coaching and experience.

The building blocks of our thinking are ideas, combined into mental models. We build our mental frameworks, theories, beliefs and convictions from a foundation of abstract ideas, and concrete experiences, stories, data and evidence. The ideas that form the foundation of our thinking are generally those that we use often, are useful, uppermost in our minds, and at hand. Modified, added to, or removed in a dynamic interaction with experience, with a lag period, or thresholds which have to be crossed, or tipping points, before new ideas are added to our toolbox or repertoire. 

Making notes of these ideas, regularly, daily, on a cumulative basis, in notebooks, and online (e.g. on daily blogposts) offers the possibility of making our constant process of taking in, capturing and collecting, and progressive integration and application of (new) ideas, and modification of existing one, visible, open and accessible. We think with what is at hand, accessible, uppermost in our minds, and with what has been made rapidly and instinctively accessible, through use, training and deliberate practice. 

The final endpoint products of Scholarship (e.g. the published peer reviewed paper, the conference presentation, an invited commentary, a published book or monograph) are composed of individual ideas, collected, adapted, integrated, modified, built upon, collected and occasionally 'created', during a progressive, thematic, focused intellectual journey. Making this process open, and accessible, down to the most granular level, offers the possibility of making the academic and scholarship process assessable for both peer and personal review, personal reflection, inspection, evaluation, and to by engaged with by a (professional) Community of Interest (COI), and Community of Practice (COP). This is the essence of 'Open Micro-Scholarship".

https://telmeded.blogspot.com/2020/10/micro-scholarship-and-digital.html

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