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Don't forget the book: Training From the Back of the Room!: 65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn.
Quote from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
"I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."
"To establish ties?"
"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...."
Learning
Learning often begin with acknowledging we don't know enough about something
@tottinge @philip_schwarz "when you think you know it all, you realize that you're just fooling yourself... " from Jiro Dreams of Sushi
RT @AncientProverbs: True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. -Socrates
Learning is twofold: acquiring new skills and increasing awareness of ignorance
RT @TheBuddhaNature: Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
RT @TheBuddhaNature: Doubt everything. Find your own light. - Gautama Buddha
RT @tmaurizio: An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest (Benjamin Franklin)
RT @TheBuddhaNature: "In the beginners' mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." ~Shunryu Suzuki
All models, frameworks & well established knowledge may blind us when facing raw talent, unconventional approaches, creativity & innovations
We cannot learn to see until we admit we are blind - TED Alan Kay shares a powerful idea about ideas
Long feedback loops bring cause and effects far away outside the learning horizon. Even the simple become complex.No chances to learn from experience
Learning by Experience from Others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitation
@ArturoHerrero Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn ― Herbert Gerjuoy
'I've X years of professional _experience_' become 'my mindset & approach to work is X years _old_' without periodic regenerations/reborns
I can accept to fail (and learn) when trying something new.Don't ask me to repeat again and again the same mistake. It's a 'no'
Lean-Agile learning
Improve your Lean-Agile Coaching abilities: link #Lean #Agile #Coaching #ContinuousImprovement #PersonalDevelopment
Microsoft Education Competencies: Dealing with ambiguity link Humor link
Microsoft Education Competencies: Organizational agility link , Strategical agility link
How much is it Agile/Lean to learn Lean/Agile from narratives/rhetoric instead of early/frequent observations of outcome of ppl actions?
Teaching
RT @skmurphy: "To teach is to learn twice." Joseph Joubert
1/2 #Teaching The Swedish principle is that every answer is precious and students are encouraged to participate.
2/2 #Teaching Isn't this the purpose of education? To value each and every idea? link
"Since people make things, work must begin with developing people", Eiji Toyoda: link
Entertain,provoke,inspire,challenge,empower to critically think,to form own opinions,to connect & act & impact. Is the purpose of education
Those who tell you what to do. Those who sell you truths and recipes for success. Those who ask questions and let you find your answers.
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn - Albert Einstein. From @lyssaadkins book
No matter how good an idea is, you cannot force it into people because freedom come 1st: is it #Lean values/principles or any #agile frmwrk
"productive discomfort" the outcome of a successful application of the Socratic questioning method
Better teaching
RT @cyetain: The Socratic Method: You know it is working when they start trying to poison you :)
Becoming a better teacher means also striving to find better metaphors, rhetorical figures & stories to share with others what really matter
A (lean-agile) #Coach is like a mountain guide: someone you can really trust when you need it!
Noticed that during a speech the moment you stay silent can be the most powerful moment
A little more experience & I'll be able to replace PowerPoint w/ a flip-chart & some drawing & a speech w/ perfect silent moments to reflect
Facilitator's tip: don't underestimate the power of silence
Education science
Let's use video to reinvent education: link
Education is a self organizing system where learning is an emergent phenomenon... link
RT @torbennr: How Kids Teach Themselves link Interesting experiment, thank you.
Speculations about education as a self organizing system where learning is an emergent phenomenon: link
More on speculations about education as a self organizing system where learning is an emergent phenomenon: link
Self Organized Learning Environments (SOLE) link
Sphere College is a project that seeks to apply self-organization to adult education: link
Flow model and Psychological safety model: link Temperature model: link
This research in cognitive psychology"The Effects of Interleaved Practice"suggest 1 underestimated advantage of #Agile link
@torbennr @axmagno The paper "The effects of interleaved practice" & the one linked here link that's an experience report