February 19th, 2012Clipped
I hope I can pass on the essence of this to my daughter.
I feel that love and compassion are the moral fabric of world peace. Let me first define what I mean by compassion. When you have pity or compassion for a very poor person, you are showing sympathy because he or she is poor; your compassion is based on altruistic considerations. On the other hand, love towards your wife, your husband, your children, or a close friend is usually based on attachment. When your attachment changes, your kindness also changes; it may disappear. This is not true love. Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer. ~ Dalai Lama
Source: http://www.dalailama.com/messages/world-peace/a-human-approach-to-peace
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February 25th, 2011Education, Learning
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. ~ Thomas Szasz
September 10th, 2010Change
| Ten commandments for changing the world |
| Angela Bischoff and Tooker Gomberg |
| 7 Apply Constant Pressure |
| 9 Learn From your Mistrakes |
July 12th, 2010Collaboration, Community, Education, Learning
NASCO’s Instructional Technologist Discusses Communities of Practice and their Importance (Interview)
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Steve Howard works as an Instructional Technologist at NASCO in Atlanta, GA. He is responsible for building educational content, enabling learning, and investigating, specifying and introducing new tools and methods of formal and social learning. You can find him on LinkedIn.
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| Q. Sounds like NASCO is really buying into social learning. Or is it collaborative learning? |
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To my thinking, ‘social learning’ is like learning from others, whereas ‘collaborative learning’ is learning with others. But the divisions are not so simple. I learn enormous amounts from other people through Twitter. I follow hundreds of learning experts, design experts and development experts and get introduced to masses of information that I cannot efficiently discover any other way.
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But I don’t just eat and drink from Twitter, I also contribute. I share links and information on Twitter. I also interact with the people I follow and those who follow me. Some of that is simply being social, some of it is networking, and some of it is discussing, sharing ideas, having real conversation. Much of this interaction leads to other conversations and projects that take place outside of Twitter. So while I describe Twitter as social learning, there are definitely collaborative aspects. Equally, if you cast your thoughts back to my other answers, you should clearly see social aspects in the collaborative learning that takes part with communities of practice and within learning organizations like NASCO.
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June 15th, 2010Philosophy
The Importance of Being Unremarkable
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- Spending time encouraging someone to follow their heart, and believing in their potential.
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- Taking care of your family and loved ones.
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- Being useful in your business, or serving people in a way that is unassuming and not in a way that seems particularly game-changing.
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- Feeling the ground beneath your feet, becoming aware of the love and abundance that exists in this moment.
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- Creating something that isn’t groundbreaking, but allows you to express yourself authentically and joyfully.
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