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Pattern recognition
[cKą , Learning]
A short story (non-fiction) drew recently my attention to the role of pattern recognition as part of the activity of reading and interpreting algebraic expressions. What is often seen as a technical weakness may have this time to be considered at a conceptual level.
Posted on Friday 12th, September 2008
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Author: Nicolas Balacheff

pinion on TEL

Difficult today to make a firm statement about Technology Enhanced Learning Research. Everything seems uncertain, just as if any view on the domain was possible and legitimate. The acknowledged results are rare, but ideas flourish in journals and conferences. Critical analysis and review of others works is not a practice we are familiar with, although we have often firm opinions about good and bad approaches, research or visions. We usually express these opinions in the corridor of the rooms of conferences, or around a table in a restaurant. I think that these blogs, forum and repositories could be places where we can have such discussions and possibly take up the challenge of a more open debate. Yes, there are works from which we learn. And, yes, there are works on which we are doubtful. It should be possible to discuss all of them openly, at least in my opinion...


We breathe without noticing until we run up the hill
We learn the way we breathe, until we have a will
"comme un proverbe", Castelldefels, 2006