March+2010+eduwotd


 * Date || Term || Definition || URL ||
 * 01/03/10 ||  || MISSED because of moving ||   ||
 * 02/03/10 || Social Cognitive Theory || "learning theory that people learn by watching what others do" || http://u.nu/3cqx6 ||
 * 03/03/10 || Learned helplessness || "condition where person learns to behave helplessly even when opportunity to help themself present" || http://u.nu/3wxz6 ||
 * 04/03/10 || Boredom || "emotion felt during periods lacking activity or when individuals are uninterested in opportunities presented" || http://u.nu/66x37 ||
 * 05/03/10 || Mindfulness || "nonjudgmental awareness in which each thought or sensation that arises is acknowledged & accepted as it is" || http://u.nu/6ug67 ||
 * 08/03/10 || Developmental psychology || "scientific study of systematic psychological changes occurring in humans over life span" || http://u.nu/3zvc7 ||
 * 09/03/10 || Historical Materialism || "an approach to the study of economics and history that examines collective mode of production" || http://u.nu/56rg7 ||
 * 10/03/10 || Stochastic || "Random. Behaviour of stochastic process determined both by process's predictable actions & by random element" || http://u.nu/9zuj7 ||
 * 11/03/10 || Tetrad || "any set of four things. McLuhan summarized his ideas about media in a concise tetrad of media effects" || http://u.nu/6pdp7 ||
 * 12/03/10 || Sentience || "Ability of any entity to have subjective perceptual experiences, or qualia. Distinct from 'Consciousness.'" || http://u.nu/2uuq7 ||
 * 15/03/10 || Philosophical Zombie || "hypothetical being indistinguishable from normal human except that it lacks qualia, or sentience" || http://u.nu/8b283 ||
 * 16/03/10 ||  || MISSED ||   ||
 * 17/03/10 || Parsimony || "Use of the simplest or most frugal route of explanation available." || http://u.nu/7mm53 ||
 * 18/03/10 || Literacy || "typically described as the ability to read and write." But is that all? || [] ||
 * 19/03/10 || Intuition || "apparent ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason" || http://u.nu/5uzt7 ||
 * 22/03/10 || Syncretism || "reconciling disparate or contrary beliefs, often while melding practices of various schools of thought." || http://u.nu/3hru7 ||
 * 23/03/10 || Normative || "relating to an ideal standard or model" || http://u.nu/9u4v7 ||
 * 24/03/10 || Anthropic Principle || "assertion that observations of the physical Universe must be compatible w/ the life observed in it" || http://u.nu/5rqv7 ||
 * 25/03/10 || Overlearning || "pedagogical concept that newly acquired skills should be practiced well beyond point of initial mastery" || http://u.nu/3i6w7 ||
 * 26/03/10 || Intertwingularity || "Term coined by Ted Nelson to express the complexity of interrelations in human knowledge." || http://u.nu/5pgw7 ||
 * 29/03/10 || Autodidacticism || "Self-education or self-directed learning" || http://u.nu/47ey7 ||
 * 30/03/10 || Rhizomatic || "allowing for multiple, non-hierarchical entry & exit points in data representation & interpretation..." || [] ||
 * 31/03/10 || Panopticon || "prison designed to allow observation of all prisoners without them being able to tell they're being watched" || [] ||