Want to find a wealth of information about how to learn just about anything? Typing in just two simple search phrases into your favorite search engine will produce an astounding number of learning resources. The two phrases are “how to” and “how to learn”. Give it a try. As I’m writing this, if I search […]
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In a 2009 San Francisco Chronicle (my local newspaper) article it was reported that due to the state budget crisis at the time the entire California State University (CSU) system of 23 campuses would not accept any new students for its upcoming spring semester. Typically, about 35,000 students enroll in the CSU system each spring. […]
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When I first read James Geary’s The World in a Phrase, I knew I had found a kindred spirit. Language has always fascinated me and the types of quotes and aphorisms highlighted in Mr. Geary’s book are particularly fascinating. Amidst such golden language resides the metaphor. Lots of them. Metaphors aren’t just an option in […]
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Rarely do we get to see such a clear illustration of the warming of Earth’s surface as we do in this video. Check it out. Very cool. From their web page: From our friends at NASA comes this amazing 13-second animation that depicts how temperatures around the globe have warmed since 1950. You’ll note an […]
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Yesterday I was part of a webinar panel discussion on the state of the technical communications industry. It was very well received. Here is the recording if you would like to listen to it. If you work in this field, I’d love to read your comments here after you listen to it.
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Every so often you read a blog post or article and are moved by the feeling that “wow, this is so chock full of truth and wisdom” that you have to let others know about it. That just happened to me as I read Penelope Trunk’s post on LinkedIn titled The Strongest Careers are Non-Linear. […]
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Graham Attwell, an educational technologist, researcher and blogger based in Pontypridd in Wales and Bremen in Germany, has posted a short slideshow that I found interesting. Mr. Attwell’s presentation examines the ways in which people are now using technology for playing, for communication and yes, for learning. He contends also that the education systems are […]
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I read a rather interesting book recently, The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won’t Learn in College About How to Be Successful, by Michael Ellsberg. This book adds to the small but growing collective of books urging us to look at education from a different perspective. That perspective is from one of self-empowerment when it […]
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People who work in the instructional design or training field know of the concept of test outs. A test out is a test someone takes to determine if they have the prerequisite knowledge or skill necessary to take a particular course or module of training. In other words, the test out determines if the person […]
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A while back I read a great book by Atul Gawande titled The Checklist Manifesto. The message of the book is that in today’s deluge of information and processes that many of us are required to utilize in our daily lives, and in our professional lives in particular, there is no way we can remember […]
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