Summary of updates coming in #Moodle 5.0. Due for release 12 April 2025. Quiz and Question Bank are the big ones.

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=467335

#Moodle 5.0 Sneak Peek: Ollama API Provider for #AI, #Quiz Attempt Precreation and more...

Another detailed video from Adam Jenkins including coverage of why you should register your server.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-1VSdns9Hc&t=672s

Interesting read: "An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02584-1

Not-so-silent-Sunday
(fair bit of cursing trying to sew around bends)
#BikeTooter #sewing #learning

Second Opinions and Self-Deception
We're swift to recognize when other people need to think again. We question the judgement of experts whenever we seek out a second opinion on a medical diagnosis. Unfortunately, when it comes to our knowledge and opinions, we often favor feeling right over being right. In everyday life, we make diagnoses of our own, ranging from whom we hire to when we m
https://curtismchale.ca/2025/04/06/second-opinions-and-self-deception/
#BookClub #learning #thinking

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Reading: an
Meaning: sky, heaven

Reading Material With Lunch, Etc – Getting Back To My Roots
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429270284 | Thornes, J. B., Brunsden, D. (1977). Geomorphology and time. London: Methuen
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I saw this book on another post - and so went and found a copy at a 2nd hand book shop…
Looking forward to lunches at work with a cup of tea and maybe a couple of rainy Sundays at home…
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#geomorphology #text #book #landforms #learning #refamiliarisation #readingforpleasure #framework #model #processes #geology #water #hydrology #weather #climate #erosion #time #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #temporal #qualitative #quantitative #change #stochastic #evolution

Sitting on a plane about to take off, during the usual safety instructions, I learned something about the importance of modeling listening.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2011/11/the-importance-of-modeling-listening

"It's easier to learn the right notes than unlearn the wrong ones."

Our piano teacher, echoing something I've been telling my #math students for decades.

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is America’s premier institution of Western history, art and culture.

Founded in 1955, the Museum, located in Oklahoma City, collects, preserves and exhibits an internationally renowned collection of Western art and artifacts.

https://peoples-books.blogspot.com/2025/04/discover-new-story-with-journey-to-new.html

Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course

https://simonmonk.org/tyee7

Think Again – Adam Grant
In a world that seems to be going to hell in a hand basket maybe we need to stop valuing pure intelligence or money as a goal and instead look towards the ability to abandon ideas that are no longer valid and relearn when presented with new information.

https://curtismchale.ca/book/think-again-adam-grant/

I share my most important learning from the biggest consulting mistake I've made. You have probably made it too…

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2023/04/biggest-consulting-mistake

How can we create the best learning environment for meeting attendees? It turns out that trust and safety are prerequisites for optimum learning.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2021/04/trust-safety-learning

Learning new Spanish phrases every day.

Today is "Espina Clavada"

#Learning #Spanish by Experience

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I'm a strong proponent of learning with others. Here are two examples from physics and coding of the advantages of cooperative learning.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2014/03/cooperative-learning-lessons-from-neutrino-physics-and-pair-programming