Some papers use psychological taxonomies applied to ICT environments. The most popular here are Peter Senge's Fifth Discipline, Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI).
It is a fascinating idea, but it has some risks inside.
Let's take a common example, such as the learning styles by Honey and Mumford. They individuate theorists, who want rational and structured knowledge; reflectors prefers to obeserve and review; pragmatists, who look for practical applications and finally activists, who learn by experience.
But don't we use every learning style during our learning process?
The risk is to collocate yourself in one of the style, once for all. I think that everyone use more or less very style in his or her learning process. This is trivial, but when you evaluate automatically students' learning styles, as some papers show, the risk of using Ockam's razor as an axe is quite concrete...
Aware of this caveat, I was impressed by the paper presented yesterday by two nice girls from Gent Universiteit: how may you structure the information fluxus in a thread system, say a web forum? Their answer is: force people tag messages in a appropriate way, as the usual OT (Off Topic) subject mark is example. In particular, they tried to applied two different frameworks: De Bono (1991) Six Thinking Hats (unfortunately trademarked as Buzan's mind maps...) and Weinberger (2005) argumentation visualisation script (see this ACM citation). While the second one seems to be a rethorical basic taxonomy (argument, counterargument, integration), De Bono's one seems to be more articulated and it worked well with their students. They did use control group and a solid data analysis, unless most of their colleagues here! More details here about their work.
Blogger > Wordpress
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Ho deciso di muovere la mia pagina web accademica e il mio blog in un posto unico, e ho scelto di fare un blog e il sito con l'hosting gratuito su wordpress. Per favore, aggiornate i vostri feed reader al seguente indirizzo:
feed://feeds.feedburner.com/FedericoGobboBlogo
Se mai cambierò di nuovo, aggiornerò il feed, così voi non vi accorgerete di nulla. Analogamente, mi sono deciso a comprare un dominio che rimarrà anch'esso permanente:
http://federicogobbo.name
Tutto ciò che ho pubblicato sul blog di Blogspot rimarrà intatto perché già riferito nel web, perciò non ha senso toglierlo. Per non perdermi di vista, potete farvi vedere in qualche social network. Quelle a cui partecipo sono tutte listate a questo indirizzo.
Blog Change News
I moved my academic web page and my blog in one place, and they are both hosted (i.e., web page and blog) with the free hosting by wordpress. Please, update your feed readers with the following:
feed://feeds.feedburner.com/FedericoGobboBlogo
If I would ever change again, I will update the feed, so you won't notice. Analogously, I finally decided to buy a domain for me. This will act as a permanent url:
http://federicogobbo.name
Every post I published in the Blogspot blog will remain here as it is already spidered by the web. If you want to be in touch with me, consider to knock me via some social network. Mine are listed here.
Ŝanĝo de blogmotoro
Mi portis mian universitatanan tekstejon kaj mian blogon al ununura ejo, ambaŭ gastigitaj de Vordpreso. Bonvolu aktualigi vian rettralegilon al la sekva treleg-adreso:
feed://feeds.feedburner.com/FedericoGobboBlogo
Se mi volus ŝanĝi denove ejon, mi aktualigos la traleg-adreson, tiel ke, vi eĉ ne notos la ŝanĝon. Simile, mi finfine min decidis aĉeti porĉiaman ttt-adreson por mi:
http://federicogobbo.name
Ĉiu blogaĵo kion mi eldonis per Blogspoto restos tie ĉar jam araneigita ttt-e. Se vi volas resti en kontakto kun mi, frapu al iu socia reto kiun mi partoprenas. La kompletan liston vi trovas tie ĉ.
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