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A syllabus for the 21st century - (01)
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. – Alvin Toffler I have been thinking about how education should lo… more →
Framework 21
Choosing a College 1
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Ron Byrnes wrote 1 year ago: My daughter, known as A or 16, is beginning her college search. This is the first of several posts o … more →
A syllabus for the 21st century - (01)
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Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot … more →
Free book download: Understanding Thinking by John Evans
Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: I scanned the book and so far I am impressed. I think folks that read the blog postings on here unde … more →
Higher-order Thinking
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Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: I added “Higher-order Thinking” to the Wikipedia List of thought processes today. The en … more →
Time to think: The one-hour thinking habit
Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: I love this idea: “Jeffery Fox [...] recommends that you think daily for one hour. Not the unf … more →
Metacognition: reading and understanding difficult texts
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Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: Miss Dee documented the way she digests difficult passages in literature. Here is her flow step-by- … more →
Has metacognition arrived in popular culture ?
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Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: What is Metacognition ? “Metacognition is the knowledge (i.e. awareness) of one’s cognit … more →
A Call for a Multidisciplinary Connection Effort
Daniel Montano wrote 2 years ago: Abstract concepts can also be understood as emergent concepts. These emergent concepts may the resul … more →
Class Resources: Human Macroecology
Daniel Montano wrote 2 years ago: This blog hosts a nice collection of resources on systems thinking, and complex systems. Source: Per … more →
Studying Disciplines Separatedly Leads to Short Comings in Understanding
Daniel Montano wrote 2 years ago: This is one of the reasons I am advocating the idea of transdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary, integr … more →
Questions: An essential part of life ?
Daniel Montano wrote 2 years ago: I challenge you to think without asking yourself a single question for 5 minutes. If you are able to … more →
The classification of thought
Daniel Montano wrote 2 years ago: Aristotle was the world’s first librarian and the world’s first information architect. H … more →
The age of machine-mediated empiricism
Daniel Montano wrote 2 years ago: Traditional human-based empiricism as we knew it through many years ended with the advent of technol … more →
Cultural dissonance
Daniel Montano wrote 2 years ago: Cultural dissonance is a phenomenon that may present itself when an individual that participates in … more →
Are you trained to see by your discipline?
Daniel Montano wrote 2 years ago: How we visually scan images seems to be somewhat related to the disciplinary training we have; or at … more →
Some systems thinking links and resources
Daniel Montano wrote 2 years ago: The Well. Fundamentals of Systems Thinking Diagrams and explanations and links at this location. (Th … more →
Why few organizations adopt systems thinking
Daniel Montano wrote 2 years ago: The title of this blog posting is also the title of article by Russell L. Ackoff, professor Emeritus … more →
From "solution" to "contextualized solution systems"
Daniel Montano wrote 2 years ago: Some complex problems require what may be perceived as a paradox: a global-local contextualized solu … more →
Systems thinking. A simple introduction.
Daniel Montano wrote 2 years ago: “The principal goal of education is to create individuals who are capable of doing new things, … more →
