2009

Great Learning Resources for 2010 – A New Learning Monitor is Out!

December 31, 2009

I’ve just published the year-end edition of the Learning Monitor, my twice-quarterly round-up of learning resources, news, and insights. If you haven’t tried out the Monitor yet, this is a great time to start. It’s free, it delivers valuable content, and you can unsubscribe with a click if you decide it’s not for you. What [...]

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Acting on the Obvious

December 30, 2009

As much as I am a fan of learning, I’ve also become more and more aware that I often don’t need to learn anything new. I simply need to recognize what I already know and do something about it. I need to act on the obvious. This means, among other things, that …

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Learning – and Unlearning? – to Give

December 15, 2009

I had set out to do a year end post on charitable giving when I ran across the following image on Mint.com. There is some good information in it. There is also considerable room for critique and debate, as reflected in the comments on the Mint.com site. I post it here not so much for [...]

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15 Language Learning Tools for Lifelong Learners

December 6, 2009

I realized recently that it has been longer than usual since I have posted anything related to language learning here on Mission to Learn. Here’s a great guest post from Karen Schweitzer to fill that gap – JTC Reading from a textbook isn’t the only way to learn a foreign language. The web offers a [...]

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A Sense-full Approach to Learning

December 1, 2009

Guest post by Celisa Steele. “Up to your shoulder inside a cow, you feel the hot heavy squeeze of her, but I’ll never forget my startled delight the first time I withdrew my hand slowly and felt the cow’s muscles contract and release one after another, like a row of people shaking hands with me [...]

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