During my onboarding at EF, we watched a Ted Talk by Jia Jiang that resonated with me. The talk discusses strategies for handling rejection, a crucial skill in sales. Surprisingly, I found the insights from the video to be equally applicable in my personal life. A few nights ago. my older daughter wanted to go […]
In 2014, a young girl named Morgan Geyser stabbed a classmate nearly twenty times. She did it because an online figure called Slenderman told her to. This is troubling. Children are having trouble distinguishing fact from fiction on the internet. Recently young children across the world were encountering a creepy figure called Momo who was
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The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda is mainly geared toward product design. The book, broken down into ten laws and three keys, provides a succinct glimpse into how to attain simplicity and sanity in an increasingly complex world. I am close to graduating with a master’s degree in Learning Design and Technology and will
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Prompt: A clear lesson from history is that it’s easy to follow fads and have unrealistic expectations about a new technology’s potential, leading to a backlash when the research findings are disappointing. What current trends might be good candidates for a backlash today? What could be done to make a backlash less likely or severe?
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Prompt: Is “laggard” an appropriate term for the slower adopters? Does it promote change? Is there another word that might be more fitting? Laggard seems to be an appropriate choice given the time period that it was first utilized by Everett Rogers. There is a distinct group who do, “hold out to the bitter end”
I had a realization today. It was at the gym. I’ve never been good at working out. I liked the idea of it but I was never consistent, until about two years ago, and I finally figured out why – gamification and positive reinforcement. I began frequenting the gym on a consistent basis around 2016
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I have officially decided to leave the classroom to pursue Instructional Design fully. While the decision itself was made in December 2017 I remained in the classroom for the remainder of this school year so it didn’t feel real until now. Finals have been administered, the classroom is packed and I’ve said my goodbyes. Teaching
Facebook has become something many people use on a regular basis for many years. We use it to keep up with people who we don’t see as often, to share moments and to socialize. Privacy is something that we have slowly begun to give up as we post things about our lives publically. In a
What kind of impact does social media have on your life? How many hours per day do you spend on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc? The biggest time sink in my life is Facebook. I spend way too many hours on it. I don’t spend as much time using Instagram but I did actually delete my
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In his articles, Finding Your Tribe May Be the Hardest Thing You Do and Three Important Steps to Building a Killer Tribe, Jeff Goins discusses the importance of finding your tribe. He describes a tribe as, “a unique group of fans, friends, and followers who resonate with your worldview”. Finding one’s tribe can be done
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