Learning without pain, but not without effort
Two seemingly incompatible truths coexist in the psychology of learning: effort is a necessity for lasting learning, yet pleasure is the fuel of perseverance. So how can effort and pleasure be reconciled? Both the teacher and the learner are concerned...
The concept of wu wei applied to professional training
There is an alternative to learning by objective: learning without intention
Educational Arcimboldo: why are learning objects... so little used?
The conventions that bind the pieces of the original works prevent their integration in other contexts that do not share these conventions...
In search of the desire to learn
What is the nature of the desire to learn? How do we situate it alongside other notions such as need, curiosity, wish, drive, motivation...?
The art of the teacher in the face of algorithms
Adaptive platforms promise to automatically adjust the difficulty "to measure" each learner, thanks to data. But calibrating a challenge is more than just optimizing indicators. The algorithm individualizes based on traces; the pedagogue contextualizes based on a human, relational and symbolic situation. The challenge is not to pit human against machine, but to preserve pedagogical discernment in the face of algorithmic optimization.