What can we learn from daffodils in the snow?

March 31, 2010 2 comments

In the  previous post  I talked about how daffodils need both the sun and the rain to thrive and suggested that rain in our lives can be good ( and necessary).
And then…. a week on and this happens
 

We had a significant dump of snow overnight. Although not unheard of at the end of March it is unusual.
Now [...]

Keeping irritations in perspective

March 16, 2010 1 comment

It was about 4pm and the bus was full of youngsters coming home from school. Some bright spark obviously thought it was fun to keep ringing the bell for getting off.  As the journey progressed to the terminus all of the youngsters did get off and a few weary adults were left to the final [...]

The best way to learn

January 19, 2010 11 comments

Are you the kind of person who reads the instructions  before you  start something new ? Or do you only search “help” when you are stuck?
How we learn has interested me for some time – I suppose ever since I was first introduced to Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles  . More recently we have been discussing [...]

Living up to your own reputation

June 16, 2009 2 comments

I was reading the Time Out Guide book I had for my trip to Stockholm at the weekend on the flight home as I had to fill a couple of hours and not surprisingly there were no English lanuage newspapers at the airport ( which is a fact not a complaint – see below on [...]

Give yourself credit for what you have learned

June 5, 2009 2 comments

Over several years I have been involved in university programmes that build workplace learning  into the coursework where the students are asked to apply their academic learning to real life situations and reflect and report on what happens. I love reading this kind of submission. The stories are often full of experiences and outcomes that [...]


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