Less than 72 hours from now, students from over 1,800 high school teams will be gathered around the country to find out what they’ll be doing for the next 6 weeks. At 1000 (US Eastern time) on Saturday 9 January, Dean Kamen will kick off the 2010 competition season for the FIRST Robotics Competition by [...]
Tagged Education, FIRST, learning, Mastery, SystemsEngineeringSell out crowds. Overflow rooms. Young fans looking for autographs after a ‘performance.’ Not things usually associated with a lecturer talking about prime numbers. But such was the case back in January 2007 for 2006 Field’s Medal winner Terence Tao. The New York Times article Scientist at Work – Terence Tao – Journeys to the Distant Fields of [...]
Tagged learning, Mastery, parenting, passionIt was not quite 3 years ago when the New York Times announced that James Cameron had signed on with 20th Century Fox to direct Avatar. I wrote the following not long after that announcement. = = == === ===== You can – and most definitely should – learn from your mistakes and the mistakes [...]
Tagged DeliberatePractice, learning, MasteryI revisited the following, originally posted in July ’07, after putting Douglas Hofstadter’s Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language back onto my currently-reading list. It is still relevant, so thought it worth sharing again. With any luck, I’ll have some new insights to share after I’ve read the book again. [...]
Tagged Books, learning, Life, WorkI’m working on a new post to address the question “Is modern technology ‘dumbing down’ America’s youth?“, as posed in the most recent edition (22 July 09) of the local news weekly – West News Magazine. (The html version of the article isn’t available as of my writing this, but you can read it here.) [...]
Tagged 2.0, Education, learning, Life, parenting, Social Media, technology, ToolsTalking with a friend this morning about the idea of “use it or lose it”, I told a story about a conversation I had a couple of years ago with my son on the subject of lunar eclipses. I wrote about that conversation not long after it happened, and since it came up I thought [...]
Tagged DeliberatePractice, learning, Life, MasteryAs a follow up to my last post, The importance of forgetting, it seemed appropriate to republish the following, which I originally posted in March 2007. = = == === ===== ======== A blog post I wrote a year ago. Playing around with David Allen’s Getting Things Done. A recent article in Fast Company. Reading [...]
Tagged Concept Work, Knowledge Work, ToolsYesterday I mentioned that one of my key mind mapping tools is Personal Brain. If you’ve ever used the Brain, you know that “mind map” is a bit of an understatement of its capabilities and how easy it is to accumulate a lot of knowledge and interconnected information. Over the past couple of years my [...]
Tagged Concept Work, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Work, Life, ToolsThis is a repost of The toys of today, the tools of tomorrow, which I originally posted in April 2008. – – — — —– ——– The toys of today, the tools of tomorrow At the end of a brief history of human communication, Dave Gray of XPLANE gets to what he sees as the [...]
Tagged 2.0, learning, play, Social Media, Tools, VisualThough perhaps a bit more rigorous in his approach, what Geoff Colvin has to say about deliberate practice in Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else is not unlike what George Leonard says about “practice” in Mastery or how Josh Waitzkin describes his process of mastering chess and T’ai Ch’i in his [...]
Tagged ArtOfLiving, Books, DeliberatePractice, learning, Mastery, WorkLiteracy
