I like music. Good music relaxes, inspires, energizes and occasionally touches me. Lately, a range of musical images and sounds as metaphors keep hovering over my head. Somehow, they open up fresh ways for me to think, and reorder my reflections. 'Recomposing': Perhaps, I am working on this again and again… Posted with Blogsy
Category: Learning
The Forbidden Education (with English subtitles)
Posted with Blogsy
Forbidden Education
They say that learning is a life long activity, but beyond that, I think learning to learn (again) is a series of necessary interruptions through life. Watching the 10 episodes ploughing through the subtitles of the originally Latin American-Spanish independent documentary 'Forbidden Education' was exactly what I needed yesterday. Because this PhD journey of mine…
The Year 2011 in Review
I can hear the fireworks going off here and there outside of our apartment. It was nice to have a bit of snow, not much but enough to make the kids happy. In a short while, we’ll be sitting down together sharing about what has been significant highlights for us this year. Gareth…
Random Thoughts on ‘Learning to Learn Again’ 1: Progress Descriptors & ‘Independence’
I haven’t been much of a blogger in the year 2011. I have mostly populated this ‘garden’ with my Project 365 photos. Even for that, I have slacked in the past month. So, every time I return, it’s like jumpstarting the engine again (and again). But, frankly, I’m not guilty at all. It’s simply…
Random Thoughts on Writing, ‘Apprenticeship’ and ‘Cabinet Making’
‘Writing’ as a way to bring those ‘disembodied’ ideas, thoughts, intuitions, concepts, images, etc., out into the open was a key theme running in my mind while listening to some practical advice by the ‘Masters’ of academia to the young PhD Padawans. I have scribbled ‘tons’ of notes since February, mind-mapped all over…
307: Universitetet i Agder
RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms
(HT: Kester Brewin)
RSA Animate – The Secret Powers of Time
The surprising truth about what motivates us (video)
This is good .. the content as well as the presentation.