One, he thinks of his technology as acomplement to modern medicine (some self-trackers believed they can do better than the pros) and it focuses on the next stage of self-tracking: the action behind the data using analytics, pattern learning and correlation.

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It builds the patterns up slowly, one block at a time, but rarely does it require the kind of intuitive BIG PATTERN RECOGNITION that macroscopic learning demands.

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Analogously, students may resort to pattern matching and memorization as they reach the upper levels of learning because they lack the foundational knowledge needed for true understanding.

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Author Cathy Davidson, defines learning as being a constant disruption of an old pattern, a breakthrough that substitutes something new for something old in a cyclical process.

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An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning.

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There needs to be some of the attributes you mentioned in (3) and more, such as: reflection and pattern-seeking, embracing ambiguity, tolerance for risk taking, iterative and collaborative approaches, experimentation and learning (failing forward), seeing the familiar in new ways, asking provocative questions and uncovering insights as well as many modes of thinking and organizational behaviors.

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