Category: education
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Knowing how…
“Knowing how is more important than simply knowing that.” ~Mary Hess Indeed. For years I knew that rearing children is hard. Knowing how it is hard is what helps me get through it. It is in the knowing how that I am able to find what is going wrong and…
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The New Introvert- or rather "Net-rovert"
“It requires more work on the part of networked individuals to make their way successfully in an always-on, quickly moving world, and a new set of norms and skills-just as the transition from rural, agrarian life to urban, industrial life required.” In his book, NetSmart, How to Thrive Online, Howard…
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Collective Learning and Cohorts- A new way to Mastering Divinity
“As the name implies, it is a collection of people, skills, and talent that produces a result greater than the sum of its parts.” In their book, A New Culture of Learning, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown take on the idea of learning in a ‘world of constant change’.…
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The Hopeful Side of Experience
The other day I posted about how experience and being ‘connected’ are two very different things on the internet. Although I meant every word of what I said, there is another side to the story, a side that I like to call hopefulness. The sunny side. I live my life…
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Does connection mean experience?
Well I am “connected”, does that count?I tweet, I am on facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, classmates, Skype, and cafe-mom to name a fewI have learned by blackboard on tiger-tracks, on myluthernet and more with classmates in Turkey, Norway, Australia and China.I blog on blogger, yelp, and google+. I share books and…
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Do I know something new?
A couple years ago, I read this competency for my Ed I class as a new seminary student: Familiar with basic faith nurture and learning theories: faith development over the life cycle, multiple intelligences, constructivist learning design (eg Parker Palmer’s community of truth model), developmental learning principles, cross cultural learning,…
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Being Less Perfect, More Human, Hope…. and M.E.
Don’t get me wrong. There are days, where no one can do right, nothing goes right and the world is against me. Those days remind me of a song my mom used to sing to me when I was in those moods. Of course, I just looked up the lyrics…
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What does real love look like? Seminary, Cohorts and M.E.
What does love with forbearance and forgiveness look like? What does love lived with passion and open eyes look like? Can the two be one? My cohort may never forgive me for this one, but I pray they ‘get’ it… In fact, I am pretty sure they will. In my…
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Invisible Sacrifices and M.E.
In her books, Madeleine L’Engle often speaks of that which we cannot see with the naked eye. Things that are amazing to behold and stunning in their purpose and presence. We take them for granted and forget how they impact our lives. When speaking of faith, someone once said that…
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How being full of holes can actually be more whole… and M.E.
We tend to think that something with holes is incomplete, less than perfect or damaged, right? I mean, the underwear with holes get tossed, as do the socks. If my pool has a hole, I have to patch it or it is useless. If there is a hole in my…
Mistress of Divinity 