Via this tweet, I came across this posting with the following 12 life lessons from Forrest Gump:
# 1: Know what love is.
# 2: Be your best.
To be your best, start with getting to know yourself.
# 3: Love what you do.
# 4: Say what you need to say.
# 5: Explain things so people can understand them.
This means that you need to understand who people are, and what they know.
And it means that you need to be sure that people understand you.
# 6: Believe that you can.
# 7: We all have tragedy to overcome. You can too.
# 8: Your actions speak louder than your words.
# 9: Believe in God.
# 10: You define your destiny.
Defining your destiny is about being in touch with what you love.
It is about believing in yourself, having self confidence.
Take a stand for who you chose to be. You define your destiny.
# 11: Imagine, then be.
# 12: Listen to your heart.
June 28, 2011
12 life lessons from Forrest Gump
June 20, 2011
June 13, 2011
Tips on education from Howard Gardner
Via this posting by Joe Bower, I came across the very interesting 7½ minute video embedded below with Howard Gardner. Listening to Mr. Gardner, I learned the following:
# 1: Engage learners actively.
# 2: Make education learner-directed.
# 3: Accept that people learn differently, have different kinds of intellectual strengths.
# 4: Present material to a learner in a way in which the learner will find interesting and will be able to use his or her intelligences productively.
# 5: Encourage the learner to focus on a few priorities that he or she goes deeply into.
# 6: Highlight for learners - from the day they start learning a topic - the performances for which they're going to be accountable.
# 7: Let learners be active in giving feedback on performances. Let them increasingly assess themselves - say what's going well and what’s not going so well.
# 8: Continuously try out new things to make the way education is done better.
June 12, 2011
Bike sharing in Hangzhou, China
Hangzhou’s bike-sharing program now has more than 50,000 bikes and more than 2,000 stations. Via
The Biggest, Baddest Bike-Share in the World: Hangzhou China from Streetfilms on Vimeo.
June 10, 2011
Tip: Learn from customer behaviour that you can observe
Towards the end of this interesting conversation between Braden Kelley and Scott Cook, I learned that it is a good idea to learn from customer behaviour that you can observe.
