by glpadmin | Mar 29, 2011 | Speaking of Dialogue
In this TED video, Simon Sinek talks about his discovery about what separates successful organizations, leaders, or entrepreneurs from those who are not. What made Apple, and Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Wright Brothers successful, when in each case there were...
by glpadmin | Apr 10, 2011 | Jane Vella Writings
Paulo Freire continually asked, “What is to know?” I want to add another open question: How do you know you are right on, doing what folks truly need for their learning and yours? This week I realized: Joy is the measure. I feel and realize deep joy in...
by glpadmin | May 3, 2011 | Speaking of Dialogue
GLP took some time to check out MIT’s Open Course Ware free offerings and uncovered their Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching. Gee, we thought, these guidelines sound an awful lot like Dialogue Education, don’t they? So I checked out this publication,...
by glpadmin | Oct 20, 2011 | Jane Vella Writings
My newest passion about adult learning is depth. Whence depth? How can we be sure we are inviting and challenging learners to go deep! I want learners to not only learn the surface facts and figures, but to imagine implications, to reconstruct a concept to fit a...
by glpadmin | Nov 2, 2011 | Speaking of Dialogue
I find that sometimes Learning Needs and Resource Assessment (LNRA) work can be limited to sending some questions to the people coming to a course/learning event. In my experience, it’s helpful to see LNRA work in phases. How does this strike you? Here is a...