Great video on how new media can turn learning into a fun and creative endeavour. But it should not end in the classroom: you can apply this method for any meeting, workshop, and conference and use the face-to-face time in so much more valuable ways than to listen to someone read PowerPoint Slides out loud!
The ability of young children to control their emotional and cognitive impulses, it turns out, is a remarkably strong indicator of both short-term and long-term success, academic and otherwise.
Developing executive function skills (as these skills are called) is a matter of practice not (just) of genes and early childhood experiences.
This is a practical, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wanting to help organisations to function and to develop in more healthy, human and effective ways as they strive to make their contributions to a more humane society. It has been developed by the Barefoot Collective.
via Barefoot Guide
Want to live more consciously? Wonder what that even means? Here are 4 posts by Deepak Chopra that talk about “skills in consciousness.”
[Skills in consciousness] are skills that anyone can learn – and benefit from – even though people casually use “consciousness” and “awareness” in a fuzzy way. Being aware isn’t passive.
The Conscious Lifestyle: Awareness Skills:
The bottomline is that working out how to produce and live in harmony with (i.e. within the limits of ) the planet’s ecosystems is basic risk management.
Video by wondermind42.
If you are then you might be doing some of the following:
- Taking the time to reply to people
- See things from another’s perspective
- Invite others to join in
- Reach out and connect. Build the human connection.
- Having conversations awakens the collective intelligence of the system to grow itself.
- Be vulnerable and allow yourself to be transformed.
An appeal to experimentation and prototyping in education by a 13-year old: This Is What Happens When A Kid Leaves Traditional Education
Interview with Rosabeth Moss Kanter from 2009
But here’s what makes me think the parade is growing: Companies that do not operate this way will not only lose the advantages of innovation, motivation, and public support, they will also have trouble being coherent and finding business opportunities.
A radical transparency about the ecological impacts may yet emerge from these efforts — and many in the business world are paying attention. A recent article in Harvard Business Review proclaims that sustainability has become an essential business strategy and the key driver of innovation. To be sure, there are large numbers of companies who resist — but they may yet join in, if markets shift toward brands that are more transparent about ecological footprints, creating a compelling business case.
via Radical transparency could lay bare the eco impact of our shopping | Environment | guardian.co.uk.
Sustainable Teams 