Category: Luther Seminary
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A gift to me, for me, this year
In our Luther Seminary portfolios, we are asked by professor Mary Hess to include competencies. These fall into three categories, knowledge, attitude and skill. In my second semester, under knowledge competency 1B, which is“Familiar with basic faith nurture and learning theories: faith development over the life cycle, multiple intelligences, constructivist…
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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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it feels like the first time- all over again- starting a new degree
You would think that once you have been to a couple of colleges, they all would start to have a large degree of commonality. Not so. I am floundering around again to learn new terms for a new college and, in the mindset of BK, doing it “their way.” Let…
Mistress of Divinity 