Teatrekkers could be seen last night at the first of our 2012 Winter Salon evenings. With a dozen friends we learned from Mary Lou and Robert Heiss (the authors of four really excellent books) just a tiny bit about Chinese teas: its origins, how and where what we were tasting was grown, how to brew [...]
This is all that I have to say today. Today I’m thinking about being mad and what to do about it (by the way, it’s work related, not family). Thank you, Mr. Rogers, you always know the most about being human and what that means to learning new things.
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100 Day Project – Day 57 – 8:45 p.m. “Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn.” Herbert A. Simon (One of the founders of the field of Cognitive Science and [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 54 – 9:00 pm Today was Advising Day at the community college where I work – a day to sit with your Advisor (for those students who choose to, of course), and talk about your goals, where your studies are going, how they are going, what you want to be [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 53 – 10:14 pm “Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society…but for me, education means making creators…you have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.” Jean Piaget I’ve just purchased the newly published Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson (although [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 45 – 9;05 p.m. Become a Big. Do you want to make a difference in the world? Yes, you could donate some money, bring some cans to the food bank, donate your old clothes, your old car, and put coins in the red bucket during the holidays. These are good [...]
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Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity. – The Prince and the Pauper Supposing is good, but finding out is better. – Mark Twain in Eruption; Mark Twain’s Autobiography That’s all I have to say today. It’s been a day of deep learning, excitement over the transformation that learning brings, and the [...]
100 Day Project – Day 35 – 9:20 p.m. Yes, that is right. Today I’m thinking about Einstein. I’m reading his biography. I really enjoy biographies. It’s a really great way to learn so much about a lot of things; not just the person the book is written about. Of course, this assumes, a well-written [...]
100 Day Project – Day 50 – Access, yet again
October 26th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Important People, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 50 – 9:12 am The President of my college and work place says it eloquently on my behalf today: Access remains the foundation of community colleges : Commentary by President Robert Pura
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