I 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, learning, reading, reflectionIn 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, learning, Life, Mastery, thiagiMy 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, learning, 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, learning, LifeMuch of what we know about the events of history comes from the personal writings – journals, diaries, letters – of the people that lived those events. Reading these diaries is simple enough – assuming they are in a language you can read – but understanding them in their original context can be a bit [...]
Also tagged 2.0, Blogging, history, Social NetworkingAs a thank you for pre-ordering Steven Johnson‘s new book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, I was invited to listen in on a special webinar where he spoke about the book and some of its ideas. Here are my (raw) notes from the webinar. Lots of good nuggets to be [...]
Also tagged Books, Creativity, Social Networking, ToolsWhat motivational methods make some of you cringe (or worse)? This is one of the questions that Dan Pink posed to the group participating in his live chat at The Book Club on the New Yorker. In response to the ”Don’t make mistakes because I (mgr,owner, boss) will think less of you” motivational method, he said: [...]
Also tagged Concept Work, Dan Pink, Life, Mastery, Work as ArtMy review of Atul Gawande’s latest book The Checklist Manifesto focused, by design, on the broad scope of the book. Within that “big picture” lesson, though, are many smaller, more specific lessons to be learned. For example: No, the real lesson is that under conditions of true complexity – where the knowledge required exceeds that [...]
Also tagged Books, checklists, Complexity, Concept Work, Knowledge Work, Mastery, ToolsIn his recent article Planning is very important…. It doesn’t work, Jack Vinson has this insight into planning: If they hadn’t planned, there is no chance they would have been able to accomplish what they wanted to do. At the same time, if they had decided that the plan was exactly what they were going [...]
Also tagged Books, Complexity, Concept Work, DeliberatePractice, learning, Mastery, planningTomorrow night HBO will premier the film Temple Grandin: Starring Claire Danes, Julia Ormond, Catherine O’Hara, and David Strathairn Temple Grandin paints a picture of a young woman’s perseverance and determination while struggling with the isolating challenges of autism at a time when it was still quite unknown. The film is based on two of [...]
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