Comments on: In Defense of Cognitive Psychology https://blog.learnlets.com/2020/09/in-defense-of-cognitive-psychology/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:07:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: Stephen Downes https://blog.learnlets.com/2020/09/in-defense-of-cognitive-psychology/#comment-1028762 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:07:59 +0000 https://blog.learnlets.com/?p=7645#comment-1028762 Hiya Clark… I address your comments here: https://www.downes.ca/post/71405

]]> By: Matthias Melcher https://blog.learnlets.com/2020/09/in-defense-of-cognitive-psychology/#comment-1028462 Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:29:10 +0000 https://blog.learnlets.com/?p=7645#comment-1028462 Thank you for the pointers to Plectica and Trapeze. I followed them, but I am not sure if these tools solved the problem of space which Downes addressed in his 2018 post that I have linked to.
If annotations must be close to the item described, the concept map will eventually end up being too large, or annoying with context-disrupting pop-ups. By contrast, annotations in a fixed corner will, after a short period of habituation, be effortlessly reachable.
I have now assembled another demo here in H5P https://mmelcher.org/wp/uncategorized/trying-out-h5p/ showing the basic idea independently of Cmaps.

]]> By: Clark https://blog.learnlets.com/2020/09/in-defense-of-cognitive-psychology/#comment-1026912 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:04:20 +0000 https://blog.learnlets.com/?p=7645#comment-1026912 In reply to Matthias Melcher.

Matthias, I’m a fan of concept maps; worked with Kathy Fisher on SemNet while a grad student. And, collaborating on maps can be a valuable knowledge negotiation approach. There’s empirical work on it. I think of IBIS, for instance. And have you looked at Plectica? I don’t see why concept mapping’s a problem for Cognitive Load. I agree that the tools I’d like to see don’t seem to exist yet (think: a collaborative version of the tool Trapeze that used to run on the Mac).

]]> By: Matthias Melcher https://blog.learnlets.com/2020/09/in-defense-of-cognitive-psychology/#comment-1026826 Tue, 22 Sep 2020 17:12:01 +0000 https://blog.learnlets.com/?p=7645#comment-1026826 Thanks for asking. My take is that there IS some “cruft” in the Cognitive Load Theory that does more harm than good: the outdated doctrine of the “Split Attention Effect” from the paper age, blocks possible useful developments. See my post here https://x28newblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/23/cmaps-and-the-split-attention-effect/ or my thoughts for Intelligent Textbooks 2020 here https://x28newblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/25/intelligent-textbooks-rejected/

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