#KoheiSaito's book is telling me about a lot of #ThresholdConcepts and #KeyPeople. I'm wondering why I never heard of them before. One #KeyPerson seems to be #DanielONeill with a #GoodLife within #PlanetaryBoundaries. I #SaitoKohei's reworking of this visualization, more of an outlier than #SriLanka, #Vietnam transgresses only one #BiophysicalBoundary while achieving 6 #SocialThresholds. I just saw an interview of @JayatiGhosh where she mentions #SuzyPaine and #DoiMoi.
https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/

'Difficulties in developing an understanding of a subject or a concept appear to be “heavily determined by working memory load,” writes #JohnSweller, and the more complex the material we’re trying to learn, the greater the penalty exacted by an overloaded mind..many possible sources of cognitive overload, but two of the most important..are “extraneous problem-solving” and “ #DividedAttention.” ' #KeyPerson #KeyThought to remember from #TheShallows, #InstructionalDesign in #TechnicalAreas

'We can’t translate the new information into schemas. Our ability to learn suffers, and our understanding remains shallow. Because our ability to maintain our attention also depends on our working memory—“we have to remember what it is we are to concentrate on,” as #TorkelKlingberg says—a high cognitive load amplifies the distractedness we experience. When our brain is overtaxed, we find “distractions more distracting.” Another #KeyPerson to remember from #TheShallows , #OverFlowingBrian