Yesterday I participated in a Twitter party hosted by @TheOnlineMom * to discuss the questions: How much do we trust our kids online? Can we monitor them closely and build trust? The focus of the discussion was, as the topic questions hint at, how do we keep our kids safe? How do we protect them from all [...]
Also tagged 2.0, Balance, Life, parenting, technologyI enjoy reading, so like many people I have set a goal for myself to read at least 50 books a year for the last couple of years. I read 45 last year, you can see my list on GoodReads. As I was getting ready to publicly commit to another year of 50-in-52, though, I [...]
Also tagged Books, Creativity, Deliberate Practice, FIRST, reading, reflection, thinkingIn his foreword to Marc Prensky‘s book Digital Game-Based Learning, Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan (@thiagi) recounts the following (emphasis is mine): Early in my life, my mentor explained to me the three paths that lead to the creation of knowledge. The analytical path, where philosophers reflect, meditate, and make sense of objects and events; the empirical path, [...]
Also tagged 2.0, Books, Creativity, Games, Knowledge Work, Life, Mastery, thiagi, thinkingWhen I first learned about the Strange Loop developers conference here in St. Louis, I had a strong – you might say strange – urge to attend. Strange because I am not a software developer; it’s been a long time since I’ve done any serious coding. What caught my eye was how conference organizer Alex Miller (@puredanger) [...]
Also tagged Complexity, conference, Creativity, linchpin, Strange Loop, technology, ToolsTowards the back of his book Don’t Bother Me Mom, I’m Learning, published in 2005, author Marc Prensky discusses the potential for using cell phones as a tool for learning in schools. I read the book back in the fall of 2006, and though I agreed with much of what he wrote in the book, [...]
Also tagged 2.0, Education, mobile, school, ToolsMy earlier post on games got me digging through my archives (yet again), where I found two posts looking at knowledge management and knowledge work through the lens of games. Both of these posts are based on James Paul Gee’s book What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. This second post looks [...]
Also tagged Creativity, Education, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Work, thinking, video gamesMy earlier post on games got me digging through my archives (yet again), where I found two posts looking at knowledge management and knowledge work through the lens of games. Both of these posts are based on James Paul Gee’s book What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. This first post [...]
Also tagged Education, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Work, Tools, video gamesGames, especially video games, have always been a big part of my life, both when I was young and now with my family. We all know that games are an important part of growing up, and despite the bad rap that video games get they can be a very positive experience, too. Over the past [...]
Also tagged 2.0, Games, Life, serious games, Tools, video gamesI’ve read the reviews, I’ve seen the video (also embedded below), and I’ve listened in on the webinar. And now that the UPS guy has made his afternoon delivery, I can finally read Steven Johnson‘s (@stevenbjohnson) latest book Where Good Ideas Come From – The Natural History of Innovation. (Though it is going to have to [...]
Also tagged Books, Creativity, Life, thinkingIn his post Some qualities of a knowledge worker, which I also mentioned yesterday, Jack Vinson (@jackvinson) mentioned a few skills needed by knowledge workers and notes These are things that aren’t part of the standard training curriculum. Maybe these things should be in the next generation of “life skills” classes they teach in high [...]
Also tagged 2.0, Concept Work, Knowledge Work, Mastery, Work as Art, WorkLiteracy
