Learning Template

Nieman Reports (Harvard)
Bob Giles offers a good template for learning:

“‘Five Minds for the Future'...new ways of learning that will prepare students to think globally and function in a world dominated by information, science and technology, and the conflicts among cultures.

Gardner’s five minds would master one or more disciplines, would posses capabilities to synthesize information, would be creative, would be respectful and would work in an ethical manner.”

Handwriting Helps You Learn

For most people, the written thank-you is your best bet for an expression of warm, heartfelt thanks. The last thing you want is for someone to be disappointed when her hand-knit scarf is acknowledged with a loud, animated e-card." So says the Emily Post Institute, founded in 1946 and still an authority on principles of politeness in today's digital age. ::MORE::