Minecraft Is Shaping A Generation, And That Is A Good Thing

Encourage a videogame? With a screen? As Nick Bilton wrote in a New York Times article urging parents to calm down about Minecraft, a Stockholm school has made Minecraft a requirement for its 13-year-old students because it helped them learn to plan. With millions of users, this wildly popular game mostly involves a world in which you manipulate really really big Lego-like objects. The game requires that you build shelters and tools to fend off zombies and other predators who come out at night. This game have an enormous learning, motivation and creativity benefits. So let’s start playing.

Your thinking is largely the cause of your feelings and behaviours

It is not the event itself that causes the emotional reaction but the automatic thoughts that run through our head in immediate response to the event. (CBT) is a form of psychological therapy which aims to alter patterns of thought, behavior and emotion. The way we interpret reality dictate the way we feel, behave and react. How does it work?

Last Thing First - Back-chaining

Usually the process of teaching people how to successfully complete long sequences of is to teach how to start the task sequence and then proceed right along to the end of the chain of events. Backward chaining however refers to breaking down the steps of a task and teaching them in reverse order. The biggest advantage from the learner’s point of view is that it offers immediate satisfaction. It  minimize anxiety and provide a sense of accomplishment. This feeling of success will increase confidence and keep us motivated to learn and complete the entire sequence of steps. 

Dojo - Safe Place to Practice - and Maximize Learning

Dojo – a safe place to Practice. Maximize creativity and learning outcomes.  The term Dojo can refer to a formal training gathering place for students of any Japanese martial arts style such as karate, judo, or samurai, to conduct training, examinations and other related encounters.  It is used today for any type of learning. It is a place where we enjoy learning, using new teaching methodologies that maximize creativity, active learning, share ideas, make mistakes, solve problems, promote an environment of respect and learning and have fun.

The Power of Crossing Perspectives - Interdisciplinary Thinking

"The  ability to think about something familiar in an unfamiliar way is the strength of interdisciplinary thinking". Interdisciplinary collaboration and exploration has a very good effect over engaging people/worker/students. It also helps to develop knowledge, insights, better problem solving skills, Helps Advance Critical Thinking and Cognitive Development, self-confidence, self-efficacy, and a passion for what they do. And of course it increases productivity. How does it work and why?  Read more into this Roojoom.

Rally Software as an Agile Education Resource

Rally software is not only one of the best agile tools around it’s also a very good center for agile education and help resources. Rally Software, offers cloud computing-based solutions for managing Agile software development. The company’s offerings include Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Project Portfolio Management (PPM) platform and products, Agile consulting services, courses through Agile University and training courses focused on Agile and Lean practices. In this RooJoom you’ll get to see a tip of the ice from the training offering of Rally software .

All About Psychology - Never Stop Learning

This great psychology education resource was created by David Webb a passionate man about studying and teaching psychology for over 20 years. Take a bite , I bet you want some more.

Mastering agile with SHU-HA-RI

Shuhari is a Japanese martial arts concept describing the stages of learning to mastery. Shu Ha Ri can be used to describe how teams learn to use agile processes, and how coaches master the ability to teach others to use agile.

Failing is part of the game - When you green you grow.

“Fail fast” = “Learn fast” - to learn something effectively you must make mistakes to learn from the mistakes. doing what you know is fun, but it will not improve you.

Peer Coaching - Continuously becoming more successful

Peer Coaching was originally developed as a cost-effective way to provide quality coaching to mid-level, high potential and emerging leaders. The result is a more collaborative leadership base committed to continuously becoming more successful. The examples in this track are mostly from the teaching area but they are a good fit to every other area. The process was originally developed by Andrew Thorn who later partnered with Marshall Goldsmith to extend many of the benefits of the Goldsmith Coaching Model.

Flipped Classroom

Flipped Classroom is currently the hottest topic in higher education teaching and learning. Universities are consumed with finding the best ways to turn traditional education upside down by using the shared time in the classroom in ways that are as active, dynamic, and engaging as possible, while leaving the reading and lecture watching for students to cover at home. So what is the best, most efficient way to introduce the flipped classroom?

I Do, We Do , You Do - Truly 'Can' Learning

Internalize a concepts through gradual release - The “I Do It, We Do It, You Do It” method is a simple, yet effective way to teach new concepts to students, kids and everyone. When practiced consistently it will allow for a greater depth of understanding and confidence with the learners as they apply the concepts independently in the tasks and activities assigned to them.

Not Just Online Education - Hands On Online Education

Online lectures by video are fine for conveying facts, formulas and concepts, and they are a true revolution. But by themselves they cannot help anyone learn how to put those ideas into practice. “We're in a place that we can begin to think about education in a whole new way.”

70-20-10 Rule of GTD - Studying versus Learning

This is an awesome rule to follow if you want to get things done (GTD).The 70-20-10 model suggests that lessons learned effectively are roughly 70% from tough jobs, 20% from people (mostly the boss), and 10% from courses and reading. It applies to learning, innovation , savings and marketing, conducting organizational change, content management many other fields. Just follow 70-20-10 model.