Category Archives: adult learning

Rolling In

Posted on August 20, 2010 by hoon

The Free Play Softball League gang. I took this picture right after our game last Sunday. It turned out to be a beautiful day, a well-played and close game. We obtained the modest goals of our 24 year-old tradition. If … Continue reading →

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More Matrices

Posted on June 15, 2010 by hoon

[An archival post carried over from the defunct Transformative Tools blog] If this looks like a version of the medicine wheel, know the medicine wheel expresses the archetectonic fundamental; is the archetypal template for the matrical model and heuristic learning … Continue reading →

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The Library Is Open

Posted on April 28, 2010 by hoon

featuring 24,014,408 books (including 1,251,822 with full-text) [as of April 27, 2010] One web page for every book ever published. It’s a lofty, but achievable, goal. To build it, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, … Continue reading →

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Field Eight – Opening Day

Posted on April 19, 2010 by hoon

You can make out Matt’s magic bat leaning up against the back-stop to good ol’ field 8. Opening day of Free Play Softball, April 18th, ‘the first Sunday after tax day!’ Since 1986, I vaguely recall. Have I been playing … Continue reading →

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The 10% Problem

Posted on February 20, 2010 by hoon

The Pareto Principle, commonly known as the 80-20 rule, first figured into my own thinking several years before someone hipped me to the origins of a conception I was using. In truth, I had developed its bastard child, also a … Continue reading →

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Jump in’

Posted on February 18, 2010 by hoon

Obviously #64 of 64 Ways to Beat the Blues, a book of cartoons by Yolanda Nave. (Amazon) Had the pleasure of participating in a Hunting & Gathering session with a very close friend, and veteran of squareONE learning‘s experiential tool … Continue reading →

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Serendip @Bryn Mawr

Posted on January 20, 2010 by hoon

While I was wrestling with a problem of terminology* with respect to key definitions with respect to my concocting a Transformative Anthropology, I happened upon Serendip at Bryn Mawr College. Here’s a few captures from this marvelous site and project. … Continue reading →

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Quest to Learn

Posted on January 10, 2010 by hoon

[excerpt] she won’t know if the school prepares kids for real-world success until the first class graduates. But Quest has already proved itself in one area: The kids love it. “It’s fun,” says student Nadine Clements. Her least favorite part … Continue reading →

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Gray Swans?

Posted on November 4, 2009 by hoon

One way to while-away the time during my short commute, and, errands, is to listen to unabridged audiobooks. If the experience proves worthwhile as a moment of learning, I’m next compelled to work against my learning style (aural-kinesthetic) and read … Continue reading →

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Space, The Final Frontier

Posted on September 24, 2009 by hoon

(click for large windowbox version) If I reflect upon phenomenologists about town…well, there aren’t many of us. Anyhowsa, Frank M. Mills is one of the few. In the past few days, he’s melded his family of web media locations into … Continue reading →

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