All Lessons
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Understanding Non-Sequential Learnings is critical to building Learning platforms to support them. There are two types of learning: 1) Sequential (one step after another along a described path), and 2) Non-sequential (steps forward and backward as needed). Understanding how people learn is critical to helping our communities thrive.
Teaching Self Regulation This lesson is on Teaching Self Regulation to our kids. (A key to teaching your kids self regulation is for you to learn self regulation. This goes to the lesson on changing others require you to model the behavior you want.) ...
How Parents Should Teach Media Literacy http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol8/iss2/1/ Many parents fail to interact with their children regularly about media content. What is the relationship between parents’ critical thinking about media and parents’...
An introduction to Critical Thinking Comic Books, a great way to teach important skills to the next generation.
By Kylene Beers & Robert Probst How do we teach kids across the grades to read responsibly? Close attention to an author’s words – the responsibility a reader shows to the text – implies and requires a responsibility to oneself as well as the words on the page....
5 Values To Teach Our Kids And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart. And you shall teach them to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up. -...
The need to teach basic life skills is more Important in a 21st Century world than ever before. This is because the 21st Century is more diverse, more global, more inter-connected, and more competitive than at any other time in history. Additionally, employers have...
No matter how smart we are and no matter how well we plan, things will go wrong. Sometimes it is our fault because we forgot something we should have known. Sometimes someone else is the cause of our tough times. And sometimes it is simply an accident. But, no...
In his new book Winners Dream: A Journey From Corner Store to Corner Office, SAP CEO Bill McDermott offers his suggestions for 7 Principles of success. (The full post is below). I have my own 7 principles for success. Let me see how well they align. My view is...
First things first: Confidence is not bravado, or swagger, or an overt pretense of bravery. Confidence is not some bold or brash air of self-belief directed at others. Confidence is quiet: It’s a natural expression of ability, expertise, and self-regard. Confidence...
I saw the post below and I thought I would add to it. I have my own Do's and Don't about helping your kids apply to college. Do's Start early - From the day they are born you need to think about college. You need to start early from a financial perspective and from...
Think about a gold wedding band. There are three distinct phases of that gold band. Phase 1 is the beginning of life for band, the mining and manufacturing of the band. Phase 2 is the longest period for the band, the time it is worn. And Phase 3 is when the band...
I was cleaning out my email inbox (something I needed to do for a long time) and I came across a report that listed the Top 12 Skills for 2012. It got me thinking what are the top skills one needs to succeed. Using the report as a starting point here is my list....