Joâ Grenier is a highly talented Montreal based jewelry designer. She creates themed based jewelry for art exhibits and cultural sites. Some of her pieces can be found at the Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, several museums in Paris via Culturespaces, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas (to name a
When we are children, we are encouraged to think of what we are going to be when we grow up. Of course it is expected that this changes, sometimes drastically, over time and education. We can be horse whisperers, firemen, painters…and this can be all the same person. But as we grow up, we have
If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a
For the sake of a little context, let me state the obvious, digital media is having a profound impact on how knowledge is created, shared, transformed and consumed. In the last 20 years, we have gone from being passive consumers of knowledge to active creators of meaning. Yes I know, not all of us are
By Mélanie L. Sisley as appeared in eLearning Magazine, 2011 “In the dawning knowledge age, how well we live will depend on how well we learn,” said the 24th Governor General of Canada, Ray Hnatyshyn, in the 1991 Speech from the Throne. Little did we know that with the arrival of Web 2.0 this statement
by Mélanie L. Sisley “High impact learning” is a term I often hear in the organisational training literature and community. It ‘s a theme that conjures all kinds of thoughts and feelings for me. For instance, am I a high impact learner? What does low impact learning look like? What are the ingredients that make
Motivational Design for Learning Performance: ARCS
John M. Keller goes right for the educational “jugular” in his research motivational design for learning performance. Motivation is by far the most illusive and yet the most impactful element in learning. In his book Educational Design for Learning and Performance Keller pools together much of the thinking and research around the notion of motivation to then
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