Tag: Learning
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Organizing Work Insights: Lessons from 15 Years of Notes
So I did a thing. I am trying to organise myself better, and I have one and a half decades worth of notes on Google Keep, in various accounts. I tagged all the notes that were work related, set the view as list, saved as pdf and then asked NotebookLM to collate my key insights…
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Mountain biking, injustice, and life lessons
There is one mistake I am still making when mountain biking I focus on the obstacle rather than the path around the obstacle. Particularly, when I am getting tired. Why does this matter? Your bike goes where your eyes (focus) go. If you focus on the obstacle involuntarily your bike will steer towards the obstacle.…
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Looking for your viewpoints: Abandoning slides and taking risks
Today I have more questions than answers after some intensive discussions in class today. How do you think about risk taking and authenticity in teaching?
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The Sound of Learning
This week my teaching picks up again, making me reflect about a course I had begun taking on Coursera “Diversity and Inclusion in Education” just to see where I stand with the topic, and what I still ought to learn. Now there was an interesting prompt for reflection, about how we think about our learners,…
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What is in Teaching?
Some Evening Thoughts You are, you are in teaching. The whole you. Your past, your present, your envisaged future. When your learners bring something to you, challenge you, question you, ask you. They are bringing themselves to you. They are making themselves vulnerable—even if it might not feel like it to you in that moment.…
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Transformative Conversations
When the topic for this week’s combined #AdvanceHE_chat and #LTHEchat was announced my first reaction was that I cannot think of any examples of a transformative chat either undertaken with my students, or having experienced for myself. Only to realised that this is not entirely true. While I might not remember a significant Heureka moment…
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Sotlwalk April 2021
The Hunt for Teaching Eggcellence! This month’s SoTLwalk is all about teaching treasures so these were the instructions: Have you made a discovery – tips, tools, delicious treasures – this year that you’d like to share with others? Where did you find them? Maybe you gamify your syllabus to make things more fun for your…
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PowerPoint for Gamification
In our course Creative Pedagogies for Active Learning we were asked by our students to share some active learning and teaching tools, we use or recommend. So that they could apply these in their own practice. So this is one from my teaching archives, the year is 2013. Although for the example I updated it…
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Podcast for workplace mentors
So I am dabbling in something new this semester. I think I need to watch more YouTube videos on how to podcast! 😀 In a conversation with my colleague today we came to the conclusion that we will never be entirely happy with any content we put out there, but that should not stop us…
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Teaching and the Notion of Kata
The impossibility of simple 26th January 2019. Culling this blog, I enjoy revisiting some of the posts and ideas. Even though most of them are half-baked. They are junctions without signposts from crossroads walked in a time and space long gone. But the tracks are still there. Like footprints in the sand. What I learned,…
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Learning Space—An Alpine Marmot
Learning Spaces When you undertake a biggish research project, such as a PhD, there will be topics that are like Alpine Marmots. You technically know they are there. You know they can randomly pop-up, unexpectedly, surprisingly, and twitch their little noses right in your face. However, these Alpine Marmot topics make only marginal appearances throughout…