You can’t always make it fun when your little one is ill but it is always nice to have as many ideas as possible.
Avoiding soreness from lack of movement
Have you ever noticed that when you don’t move much you can actually feel worse?
Create a simple game for my son
I want to start making simple games for my son Nate to share things with him. He’s 2.5 so he doesn’t get proper games yet. He’s happier tapping to find things. This will build on the play I have done with the Unity3D game engine giving me something real and fun to use it for.
Why train your nerves?
For many years I’ve noticed the forgotten aspect of training your nervous system and the adaptations it makes to support your activity underpins all the improvements you see. I read a beautiful research article named how brain cells change their tune and I felt it was time to explain mytheory that learning a skill depends on training our nerves.
The Plague and the benefits of Horizontal Gene Transfer
How do you express the concept of Horizontal Gene Transfer in a way most people could understand and also see where it could be useful? In fact I have several related concepts and questions I think I can express in one idea: Is horizontal gene transfer natures software update? Can viruses can do good? Can programming teach you about biology? Is biology …
Build a Virtual Body: Bacteria communicate with their hosts
This article Communication between bacteria and their hosts is the kind of thing I look for to support my dream of a virtual body. It builds on the finding that Bacteria communicate with each other. My interpretation is essentially simple. I consider bacteria and viruses to be to the human body like plugins are to software. The body is an entire organism but …
How to live with migraine?
I have a mission this year to help my wife learn to live with her migraines. My wife suffers badly from then, she is suffering as I write this post and it is quite a bain of our lives. Like anyone else I’ve searched for cures, she has too and she’s tried all sorts of remedies. Some things seem to help the …
Weight loss and Christmas. The food addicts guide to feasts part 2
This post follows on from part 1 Holiday health What I have learnt at these times of feast is that they are also times that I don’t feel as healthy as I normally do. You see I am fortunate because I generally enjoy good health. I don’t suffer with regular pain like many others tell me they do. The pain of …
Learning: Is it Online or Offline. Are we letting fear get in the way?
Just a short post inspired by reading notes from an upcoming e-assessment faculty meeting. A question came up about offline learning and ereaders in particular. How far can we go with them. A very informed answer was given by Niall Sclater taking reference from his existing article making ebooks more interactive: logistics and ethics. Niall is a key influence in …
Learning is innate. How the changing world can help education
The evolution of learning is a fascinating topic. Learning is my strength because I was brought up to think that learning is innate and every challenge is surmountable. In fact learning is never really changing, only the tools and processes we use to learn will change. The education industry has been struggling to figure out how these new tools can …
The Serve
For a long time I’ve been fascinated by the how the ball moves in the air and what you can do to affect it. Now I’ve come up with a way to explore it through a web browser. I thought I’d share my initial attempts to see what people think. There are four very simple examples. Three looking at the …
Do GCSEs favour women?
You know. I never really thought about it that much. I first came across this notion during my A levels studying education as part of sociology. Since, at the time, women and girls had had such a long time being the second class citizens of education and work it didn’t really bother me. I did notice that in all the …
Money: The Energy of Economies
We’ve all heard the phrase ‘money makes the world go around’. Have you ever considered money as energy that fuels and brings life to economies. Much like energy fuels life. This blog is about creating and sustaining energy cycles and how this leads to life both in economies and in the natural world. This first post is inspired by the …
Education: New Rules
Lifelong learning is a topic close to my heart. I’m very frustrated that mainstream education is only provided for the young rather than for every age. That was appropriate in the last century. Not this. It supports a culture where if you don’t take your opportunities when you’re young then you miss out. So I’m interested in the discussion I …
A message for life
My philosophy is that ‘The way you think defines what you achieve‘. By that I mean that your philosophy determines the decisions you make to any given situation and thus the outcomes you can expect. It is through these decisions that you define the life and accomplishments that you end up with. Of course there are other factors but I …
Testing my margins
So I had a match today against my nemesis. We play regularly and it’s always close. Every time I think I’ve figured him out he comes up with something new. Today was no different. I put my new shots and tactics into play and profited really well in the first set. I was on fire but wasn’t really trying. My …
Profit margins
Novak and Rafa Wimbledon final 2011 I love competing. Mainly it’s not about beating someone else. It’s about testing myself. Seeing what I can achieve. So I thought I’d write about it and hopefully find other people who like pushing themselves like I do. So I have many passions. Most I just do. The passion I’m most competitive with is …
Book review: The Talent Code
A fascinating book that sheds new light on how neural connections form I’ve just finished reading ‘The Talent Code ‘ by Daniel Coyle and already I feel it’s one of those books I will refer to again and again. It’s a well researched book describing daniels theory of how talent is best progressed. He uses research from state of the art …
A vision for 21st century learning
So I had a vision over Christmas of the kind of learning and teaching I’ve always wanted. As I wrote it down I became more and more convinced that this is possible right now. It also pulls together my passion for understanding human excellence with my experience in taking ideas to deliverables. It’s still very much a work in progress but I’m …
Can somebody please support self directed learning!!!
I’m a self directed learner. I’m not one for the whole course or module mentality. Mainly because, now that I work, I just don’t have the time or the patience to commit to such a slow process of learning. Particularly when you only get the grade at the end. You have to devote months of your life to the possibility …