Saturday, August 06, 2011

Learn is fun !

Every time we engage in learning I think that in addition to acquire new knowledge and connect and expand with what we already know, we also move our "learning muscle" ... our willingness to dive in the unknown, to endure the fails and errors for the reward of the new ... enjoy this compilation of Rick Mereki and his 2-people team experienced during 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights and 38 thousand miles ...

LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Friday, March 18, 2011

"Flipping the traditional classroom script " - TED video

I stumbled upon this video, I found very interesting, especially:
- The realization of the type of expectations about proficiency
- The humanization of the classroom experience
- The importance of useful data available to the teacher to intervene the class



I can hear the naysayers about the problem of how the teacher will spend his/her days do not providing content ... I hope to find p[laces where they are courageous enough to at least pilot test it !

Sunday, February 06, 2011

Great rule of thumb to verify understanding after training ...

"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother"

-- Albert Einstein