Crickets The phrase a heavy heart had always seemed so weird to me. How could a heart be heavier than you were used to? I feel it now. Maybe it comes when waves of sadness crashes down onto the shores mixed in with the debris of shock and confusion. I write about this crushing pressure as I continue to maintain a smile on my exterior. Today, I carried my heavy heart home. Filed under Arjun I haven’t updated this in a long time. If not for my readers, for the sake of my memory that they will all be documented to the best of my ability. Today, right now, I am present. To anyone that is willing to listen, I’d tell them this. . 5/31/17 10:45 pm Here’s a shoutout to a wonderful woman, the security guard from our apartments. “What’s the difference between here and America? Filed under KlemmFellow “We gave you a month long supply of medicine 9 days ago. We had to explain to her that this medicine was not meant for pain, but rather for the maintenance of her high blood pressure. Public Health… Onward we go!
SpeEdChange Blog | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss | Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog Cal Newport On Sam Harris and Stephen Fry’s Meditation Debate February 19th, 2019 · 44 comments A few weeks ago, on his podcast, Sam Harris interviewed the actor and comedian Stephen Fry. Early in the episode, the conversation took a long detour into the topic of mindfulness meditation. Harris, of course, is a longtime proponent of this practice. What sparked the diversion in the first place is when, early in the conversation, Fry expressed skepticism about meditation. Typically when we find ourselves in a chronic state of ill health it’s because we’ve moved away from something natural that our bodies have evolved to expect.Paleolithic man didn’t need gyms and diets because he naturally exercised and didn’t have access to an overabundance of bad food.Mindfulness mediation, by contrast, doesn’t seem to be replicating something natural that we’ve lost, but is instead itself a relatively contrived and complicated activity. Harris’s response was to compare meditation to reading. Read more » Myth Confirmed
The Evolution of Education The Smart Passive Income Blog — Smart Ways to Live a Passive Income Lifestyle On the Internet with SmartPassiveIncome.com The Philosophers' Magazine Blog Escolares emprendedores, la mejor arma contra la crisis Superar la brecha entre la formación universitaria y lo que demandan las empresas es posible. Hay quien piensa que fomentar el espíritu innovador en la escuela es un gran comienzo para que los futuros emprendedores conozcan cuanto antes las necesidades de un mercado laboral competitivo que cambia con rapidez. Revisar los planes de estudio y las titulaciones universitarias es imprescindible. La mayoría de los expertos consultados coinciden en ello: los centros docentes no pueden permanecer inmóviles con sus materias y metodologías. Es preciso que se adapten a los cambios de la sociedad y del mercado. Otra de las reivindicaciones es el trabajo conjunto de universidad y empresa. Es importante una reestructuración de la oferta de estudios universitarios mirando hacia lo que necesita la sociedad. Según ellos, se debe diseñar un encaje entre la educación y el mercado laboral. Iniciativas para lograr un cambioNo todo está perdido. Vota la noticia Accede a tu cuenta
Seth's Blog zen habits Instructivism, constructivism or connectivism? Instructivism is dead. Gone are the days of an authoritarian teacher transmitting pre-defined information to passive students. In turn, teachers enthusiastically transformed themselves into facilitators, guiding and coaching the participants to inquire, explore, discover and even generate new learnings. Fast forward to today and connectivism is all the rage. Slippery slope The popular sequence of events that I have recounted is often represented pictorially as a gradient, accompanied by that ubiquitous table comparing various aspects of the three pedagogies. But is this gradient a fair representation? Certainly it’s accurate in terms of chronology: the concept of constructivism was conceived after instructivism, and connectivism was conceived after that. However, I think the diagram misleadingly suggests an evolution of instructional design. Sure, the gradient reflects a wonderful growth of ideas, but I think it’s a trap to conclude that the latter pedagogies supersede the former. Conclusion