User:Charles Jeffrey Danoff/Learner Profile

Type classification: this resource is a collection of other resources.

Cf. my Spring 2011 Handmade Semester

This is an experiment in creating a Learner Profile, as described by George Siemens in What are Learning Analytics?

Learning content should be more like computation – a real-time rendering of learning resources and social suggestions based on the profile of a learner, her conceptual understanding of a subject, and her previous experience. Competence (as measured by a degree or certificate) need not be explicitly pursued. For example, an integrated learning system should be able to track my physical and online interactions, analyze my skills and competencies, and then compare my life-long skills against a discipline or field of knowledge (this comparison will be possible because a discipline will utilize intelligent/semantic/linked data to define its knowledge). Then, the learning system should inform me that I am “64% to a achieving a phd in psychology, 92% to achieving a masters in science, 100% to achieving a certificate in online learning” and so on. If I do decide to pursue that phd in psychology, the learning system should offer a personalized path forward that adapts constantly to knowledge I acquire in the course of work, parenting, or generally living my life.

I can also learn from Erkan Yilmaz Personal Learning Environment [PLE] diary, and by reading-up on PLE's. --Charles Jeffrey Danoff 17:26, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Currently Studying edit

from Wiktionary entry for study.

To revise materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.
Students are expected to start studying for final exams in March.

I need to study my biology notes.
To take a course or courses on a subject.
I study medicine at the university.
To acquire knowledge on a subject.
Biologists study living things.
To look at minutely.
He studied the map in preparation for the hike.

Japanese edit

Background edit

Lived in Japan for 6 years as a child^[a], studied the language formally at school for 2. Later spent a year working there, where I put a lot of free time into practicing oral and aural Japanese. Essentially I am illiterate, being unable to read or write, aside from recognizing a few basic characters.

Current Study Plan edit

Attend a Weekly Beginner's Japanese Class
Study the Hiragana and Katakana Alphabets Independently

Short term goal edit

- Memorize hiragana and katakana by November 19th.
- Find an online friend to learn Japanese from/with, possibly by editing Japanese Wikipedia articles?

How-to Build an NBA Dynasty edit

Background edit

Been thinking informally about the topic since I was 13-ish, started formalizing the process in college, then did formalize it in an October 2010 paper.