GEDI / Grad 5114 – Fall 2015
I connected so much with the article ‘When do medical students lose their empathy?’ found here – http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/10/medical-students-lose-empathy.html- that I thought I’d start writing on empathy and see where my thoughts take me. As I read the article above I realized, once again, that the degree to with I empathize or feel connected to situations … Continue reading Have I lost my empathy?
Read moreI certainly identify with the writer’s point of view. I have to admit that reading this article, which was quite brief by the way, took me longer than it should because I got distracted. I got distracted trying to do many things at the same time. Perhaps, it’s not that my attention span is reducing … Continue reading Lazy me!
Read moreI love this talk so much since it’s obvious from the start that Paulo Freire is a deep thinker and has spent a lifetime learning and thinking about pedagogy, education, literacy, power etc. He starts off by talking about curiosity. In my opinion, curiosity is an important attitude one must embrace to succeed in life. … Continue reading In the mind of an educator (Paulo Freire – An Incredible Conversation)
Read moreManuel Perez-Quinones’s article on the importance of principles of community is an interesting read mainly because it comes across more as an attack on freedom of speech than on the importance of principles of community. Reading through this article, I realize more than ever that ‘principles of community’ and freedom of speech seem to be … Continue reading Thoughts on the article ‘Principles of Community need to be respected’
Read moreI find this results of the experiments highlighted in this video unexpected. The conclusion of the experiments shown in the video is as follows: For simple/straightforward tasks involving some manual labor, an incentive/reward for getting the task done works wonderfully well on people but for more complicated tasks involving high cognition or conceptual creative thinking, … Continue reading Thoughts on “RSA Animate. Drive – The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us” – Dan Pink
Read moreHe fired off by mentioning how ironic the slogan ‘No child left behind’ since this approach is doing the exact opposite by leaving millions of children behind. According to Robinson, the proof of the inefficacy of this approach is the high dropout rates in some parts of America – 60% – and in the Native American community – 80%. … Continue reading ‘Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley’ – Ted Talk Summary
Read moreThe Last GEDI session was focused on a new paradigm in education suitably called connected learning. From what I learned in this class, connected learning is a new model of scholarship/pedagogy and is a progressive approach to the structure of the flow of knowledge from the source(s) to the recipient(s). In connected learning, there is an … Continue reading Some thoughts on connected learning ……
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