Category: Life
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What is school for? You Should Read Seth Godin’s FREE 97 Page Manifesto – Stop Stealing Dreams
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in Education, ALEC, Anxiety caused by learning, Diploma, Disruption, Economy, Edtech, Education delivery model, Educator’s Journey, Flipped, Free, Grammar, Hacking, Improve teaching practice, Jobs, Khan Academy, Leadership, Life, Lifestyle, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, LNPro, Mastery, Meaning, MOOC, MVP, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCLANA, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Reading, Reading comprehension, Sal Khan, Self development, Teaching philosophy, Technology, Theory, VideoSeth Godin’s manifesto on school and schooling This is a great manifesto on education by internet marketing guru Seth Godin. Seth is referring to the public school system in the US. However, I think what he says applies more generally everywhere across education. The industrial model is broken Seth critiques the largely broken industrial model of…
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Minecraft taught me everything I needed to know about lifelong learning
Well, the title’s probably an exaggeration… but I’ve taken up playing Minecraft lately. With my 4 year old son. And it’s a great learning curve. On learning to learn. Both of my girls are serious Minecrafters. One is 13 and the other is 9. They’ve been addicts for a while. I’ve remained aloof. Until recently.…
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10 small things you can do to make travelling for work suck less
Travelling for work can be a bit of a love-hate relationship. It certainly is for me. For one thing, it puts pressure on our family when I’m away. However, since I have to deliver my training all around the country it’s not really optional. Here are 10 small things I do every time I travel…
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Why I Am Afraid of Email And The 7 Scary Things I Did About It
I am afraid of email I’m afraid of email. I had a bad experience. It might be because I couldn’t answer the nearly 10,000 emails that had accumulated in my inbox. The year was 2010. Or was it 2011. I can’t actually remember now. But the thing that happened was that I had a baby.…
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Superfreakonomics
Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, & Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. This is the brilliant sequel to the bestselling phenomenon Freaknomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner which we’ll review at some stage as well. Basically, this is a book about numeracy. At least, that’s how I’ve read it… It was my numeracy…
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Minecraft taught my kids everything they needed for life
My kids are hooked on Minecraft. In case you don’t know it’s a computer game. They play it on the iPad. I think there’s a PC version but I don’t know anything about that. What I do know is that Minecraft has taught them everything they need to live a fulfilling life. I’m not sure…
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How to avoid work-related bipolar disorder
Some days I love my work. Other days I hate it. Love hate love hate. That’s usually the way it goes. On Monday I want to take over the world. On Tuesday I want to sell the business because I can’t stand it. On Wednesday, I’m on fire. On Thursday, I want to throw myself…
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3 things I learned from my Uncle Keith (RIP) about life and business
My Uncle Keith… actually my Great Uncle Keith passed away a couple of days ago. He was a great guy. I didn’t really know him that well, but regardless I feel that he was a valuable part of my childhood and I really think I learned a couple of important things from him for life…
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Working night and day
I don’t wanna work nights and weekends… I also don’t wanna work days either though…