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  Most of us are in this class to learn how to change brains through learning. In the process we are changing our brains, yes? What pulled me in was the by-line in 10 Things You Can Do to Literally Change Your Brain . I’ve never been a big fan of being stuck with something so this intrigued me. The usual suspects appeared – exercise, sleep, meditate, read, listen to music, and shinrin-yoku can make positive changes to your brain. I’m on the fence about drinking coffee, but sugar and multitasking didn’t come as a surprise. The tenth influence is “believing you can change your brain,” which had a TedTalk (my favorite), and a picture of a buton, receptor, and synapses (also one of my favorite images from a physiology of behavior class in undergrad). The speaker talked about grading students not as failures, but as “not yet” and embracing the potential for growth and improvement. This resonated with my blog Go Forth and Bury Dead Ideas about Learning, as one of the suggested ideas to bury

  Years ago, while watching The Road, my youngest son was still rowing at NEU, and I had no idea what I would do if I were suddenly forced to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Today, when I sometimes think (not seriously) about how this world is slowing spiraling into an apocalyptic event, I know exactly who I want on “my island” – my youngest. He is a wilderness EMT, outdoor hiking guide, survivalist, etc. Sometimes I think he would prefer to sleep in the backyard than in the spare bedroom. When I ran across How to Pack a Backpack for Backpacking , I found a perfect opportunity to impress him with my knowledge about backpacking. We are planning to backpack and climb around Joshua Tree (subject to change) next spring break. I am currently preparing by wearing my small backpack when I go on hikes and walks (up to carrying 10 lbs. now!) and adding weight to my bike when I go for a ride. I need to be able to hike for several hours carrying a 30-40 lb. pack. Adding just 10 lbs. to my

I began reading an article from EdSurge, What College Students Wish Professors Knew About Inclusive Online Teaching that explored what inclusive pedagogies students would like to see carried over from our Covid remote learning environment into the new in-person learning environment. Accessibility and digital inequities were brought up as not necessarily going away and that communicating with students early to determine any challenges to learning is important. The article also brought up that introducing new tools “carries a cognitive load,” something that I think we can all attest to as we attempt to explore and absorb all the new tools in this class. Using technology intentionally builds community and encourages students to interact, something that we are also doing in this class. The article from EdSurge, had several links that led me to a crowd sourcing website hosted by Columbia ô CTL, Ask a Student! This resource encourages university professors to ask a panel of undergraduate

 Again, new at Pocket, but found this article about Using This Method Could Cut Your Email Time in Half.   Here' s a series of videos about it. There are 9 videos, each is under 15 minutes, most are 5-10 minutes. Now, I'm thinking that some of you can identify with managing your inbox effectively, especially after your digital detox challenge. I saved it to my list, bookmarked it, emailed it to myself at work to share with colleagues, Tweeted it to #eme6414 - I think I'm getting the hang of this . . .

 I’m new on Refind, but already find it fascinating! The most current Refind is  Summer 2021 Beach Reads for Teachers amenic181 / iStock I was especially drawn to Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education . I also found out about Pineapple Charts as a tool for teachers to learn from each other and the article on Recognizing When It’s Time for a Change really resonated with me as I have recently resigned from my training position with the Guardian ad litem Program. I read the article How to Guide Students to Self-Regulated Learning and connected social media and NKA as opportunities for students to participate in SRL. Looking back, the nuns were very explicit on how one should learn and study. Reflecting on my children’s study habits, I passed down my study habits to them. They were more successful in school than I was, thank goodness. The article discusses the pros and cons of indirect SRL teaching, implicit direct instruction, and explicit direct instructio

I'm a huge fan of TED Talks, listen to at least one a day, often while walking my dog around the neighborhood. Most recently, I received an email from them, crowdsourcing "big, bold ideas" from Latin America. https://blog.ted.com/have-an-idea-to-share-apply-to-our-ted-idea-search-latin-america-2021/ . As I often wondered how they found all these people with all these ideas, this answered a lot of questions for me. I went directly to their web page, not my app, logged in, and found the whole world of TED, not just the world they curated for me. There is TEDx, TED Fellows, TED Ed, TED Translators, TED Institute, The Audacious Project, and TED@work. I began looking for a way to apply NKA. There are 3,700+ talks and thousands of playlists. Some I watched but others I wondered why I didn't receive the recommendation to watch "A brief history of toilets?" This was when I noticed that I was supposed to self-curate by liking or less liking a video, which would gui

https://www.pinterest.com/cagornik/fifth-life/ I have never pinned or created a board on Pinterest. All pointers are welcome. I wanted to share this board to the eme6414 summer 2021 board, but I am unsure if I was successful. This is my fifth life. Feel free to guess the first four.

This class has provided overwhelming options to engage and connect with learners; if these learners have access and know how to navigate in the Web 2.0 world. So many do not, so I wonder how we as designers can become proponents/advocates for moving all learners into the ICT world. Even in the US (during lockdown), we had children sitting in parking lots, on hot pavement, with school-issued shared laptops to connect to a school bus that served as a hotspot, just so that they could learn. How can we better prepare these learners in a F2F environment for the eventuality of an ICT environment as they are further their education or enter the workforce. I came across the ICT4E and ICT4D concepts in my EME 5601 class after reading an article by Heaster-Ekholm, Popular Instructional Design Models: Their Theoretical Roots and Cultural Considerations. What grabbed my attention was the cultural considerations piece. I knew about SCORM, but I had never heard about Information and Communication T

I was (still am) so excited to be back in the learning environment, then a week in I cracked a tooth in half, to the root, eating almonds (one of my favorite nuts), and it felt like someone had shot me in the face (or I believe that's what it feels like) or that I got kicked by a horse in the cheek (long story there). I don't do meds, but immediately found myself on antibiotics and opioids until they could schedule me in for an extraction (with complications). The antibiotics immediately changed how I felt, but the opioids did the real number on my psychic. Now I was a Dead Head back in the days, but have been clean for over 40 years, downright borderline vegan; I'm so careful what I put in my body.  How many of you can identify with this scenario?  (Well, maybe not the Dead Head part . . .)   Amid all this, my youngest and his partner visited to "help out" and I had to immediately return to working in the office, in person, full time beginning this past Monda

 A while ago a co-worker suggested that I connect with Cathy Moore (Let's save the world from irrelevant training) on LinkedIn. I wasn't on LinkedIn at the time, but rectified the situation to see what she was all about. That was back in 2009. I'm taking a fresh look at Cathy Moore and found that just this past week she conducted a crowdcasting  scenario event to save her from the "information dump" that she thinks she needs. Boy, can I identify with that, especially at the beginning of a project. Check this out as she acts as a SME for a fictitious company and her associate, Devlin Peck, will demonstrate how to manage SMEs and shift the information dump to creating an action map.