It seems that the focus of what I have learned the last two days is centered around designing learning opportunities. By first clarifying what the learning objective is and how it will be assessed, an educator can then look at the activities that will lead to success for that end. Whether it is using technology, strategies, environment, it comes back to the learning design.
In applying this to professional and personal change, this also has value. When looking at ourselves and how we want to change, we can use the same method of looking at what it is we want to change and design the process. Whether it is physical, moral, relational, we can first identify what it is we want to achieve, how we would assess it, and then design the process and structures around it. It takes some discipline to focus and design the process, but otherwise, we may spend a lot of time and money and not getting our results or learning from the experience.
Lately, I have been thinking about how to be more loving. If there was a unifying theory to life as Einstein was looking for physics it would be love. Love gives our lives meaning and makes us feel alive. It has quantifiable evidence as being the highest of positive emotions, much like is shared in Christ's teachings: I give you faith, hope, and love but the greatest of these is love. How to set an assessment or quantifiable data on love as a performance metric. I guess you could count acts of love. What about thoughts of love? To yourself and to others.
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