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One of the golden rules of sense-making is that any framework or model that can’t be drawn on a table napkin from memory has little utility. The reason for this is pretty clear, if people can use something without the need for prompts or guides then there are more likely to use it and as importantly adapt it. Models with multiple aspects, more than five aspects (its a memory limit guys live with it) or which require esoteric knowledge are inherently dependency models.

So apply the table napkin test before you take up any new method, model or framework

Also swelling is the number of adjuncts. They now make up 50 to 75 percent of those teaching in higher education. Why colleges rely so much on adjuncts has been discussed thoughtfully and at length elsewhere; chief among the reasons are that they are not as expensive as tenure-track professors, their scheduling can more easily align with the needs of the college, and firing them is not fraught with the same peril as firing full-time faculty members. It should hardly come as a surprise that all of the factors that make adjuncts attractive to administrators make them equally attractive to union organizers. For example, at Washington University in St. Louis, where adjuncts voted 138 to 111 in favor of organizing, the core issues were low wages, lack of benefits, and lack of job security.

1. Powering-down helps remove unhealthy feelings of jealousy, envy, and loneliness.

3. Solitude is harder to find in an always-connected world.

4. Life, at its best, is happening right in front of you.

One of the reasons I wanted to post on this topic was that my thinking about the grading process has been fuzzy, and I knew that the effort required to get a post together would help clarify my thinking. Students, on the other hand, see learning as good when it happens easily, without any struggle.

While one adult learner may be well versed on how to search for resources online, another may have very little experience using the Internet.

Survey your audience beforehand to determine any technical knowledge limitations they may have, as well as to assess their education levels.

As we get older, we tend to gravitate more toward learning experiences that offer some sort of social development benefit.