Theory of Operation Manual
A theory of operation is a description of how a device, system, or process is intended to function, providing a mental model to aid understanding and troubleshooting.
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Theory of Operation Manual
A theory of operation is a description of how a device, system, or process is intended to function, providing a mental model to aid understanding and troubleshooting.
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AUTOCAD
Floor plan in autocad
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ProjectFour
ProjectFour
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Why Adult Learning is Different
Why is it necessary to design classes especially for adults? A class is a class, right? Why not use the same courses for everyone? Because adults are different than children. Children are intended to learn through “Pedagogy,” which is curriculum designed for children. Ped means child. However, most trainers in the workplace know that adults…
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What is the College Experience?
I hear this phase all the time — “I want to have the college experience.” Most recently I’ve heard it from my daughter who is now close to college age. This phrase is strange to me because it really didn’t exist when I was in college. Way back in the mid-eighties when I attended college,…
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Why I Made this Site
The Internet is still a relatively new technology in the world, and it presents many opportunities for entrepreneurs to realize a passion that they have. Some people have even said the Internet is in the “wild west” stage for business startup and growth. The internet provides a medium that is relatively free and can reach…
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Adult Learning | Badges/Certificates | Conceptual/Knowledge Learning | General | Skill Building Learning
Knowledge vs. Skills
There has been a long tradition of classifying workers into two categories: knowledge workers (white-collar) and skill workers (blue-collar). But, is this really how we should be categorizing workers in the current age? Considering that there is an ever-growing presence of complex technologies within our workplaces, I believe it is not unrealistic to assume that…
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The Power of Stories
It is amazing how our minds seem to have a great capacity to remember stories. Stories can be as vivid in our minds at the present time as when they actually happened in our distant past. I was reminded of this fact when I was reflecting on my father’s life. He died in 2004, and…
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Improving Ethical Behavior
We’ve heard a lot lately about the need to improve our ethical behavior, especially in our schools and in our workplaces. But how do we do this? Can good ethical behavior be taught and learned? I don’t believe it is possible to learn good ethical behavior; instead, it must be practiced and utilized because everyone…
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Why I Identify with JD Vance
JD Vance is the newly selected, vice-presidential running mate to Donald Trump. He’s had a very interesting background, and having read his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy, and also seeing it when it was made into a movie, I have become especially intrigued. This is because, by all accounts, JD Vance is a success story. He has…
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The Power of Intuition
What is Intuition? The dictionary defines it as the ability to understand something immediately or to make a judgement which seems to be unconsciously generated. It is the “gut feeling” we receive about something we encounter in our environment. Intuition has always fascinated me, because I’ve wondered exactly how judgements could be made based on…
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Chat GPT Can be a Good Tool for Learning
I have been reading many articles about Chat GPT, which is the Artificial Intelligence (AI) writing App that was recently developed. At the end of one of these articles, I clicked on the Comments section, something I enjoy doing when I have the time. There happened to be only two comments, and what was interesting…
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Badges/Certificates | Choice in Learning | Conceptual/Knowledge Learning | Uncategorized | Visuals in Learning
Is Communication Changing?
Are our fundamental ways of communicating changing? I would argue that they are. I came to this conclusion from a couple of recent events in my life. These events have made me truly wonder and reflect on my past memories of communication methods to come to an understanding how it has all changed. My first…
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Finding Your Passion in Life
What is your passion? We hear this phrase all the time. Find your passion, they say, and you’ll never work a day in your life. But how do you find this passion? Do you read books to explain it to you? Or, perhaps you should consult with an “expert” who will surely explain to you…
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Why it is Better to Cooperate than Collaborate
Collaboration seems to be on the largest buzz word these days, and it is said to be highly desirable in both work and school. Multiple heads focusing on a problem is always better than one, so they say. But is this always the case? I actually think that teamwork and collaboration can be exceedingly difficult….
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Are you a Tortoise or a Hare — Learner?
Everyone has heard the story of the Tortoise and the Hare. It’s a favorite story, especially for children. Children love the idea that a slow turtle can actually beat the quick rabbit in a race. To me, the Tortoise and Hare story is a great example of how the underdog can win. And, it’s a…
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Why I Blog
I’ve had a blog for about 8 years now. It started because of a book I wrote. When my father was dying of cancer in 2004, he wanted me to self-publish a book he had written in the 90’s on Education. I agreed because I wanted to grant him his final wish. But during the…
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Toastmasters is a great choice for adult learning
I have long been a member of the Toastmasters’ organization, as many of you who know me well have heard. Toastmasters is an organization that was founded in the 1920’s to help people overcome the real — almost universal fear — of public speaking. To many people, myself included, this fear was holding them back…
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Learning a la carte
If you could design your own learning path, what would it be? Sounds easy enough, right? You just pick the best schools, best teachers, best buildings, resources, etc. But is that all there is to it? Today, there is a raging battle over charter schools vs. traditional public schools. On the one hand, charter schools…
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The Importance of Intuition
I often tell people the story of why I moved to Montana from Chicago in 2002. It started with a casual trip to Whitefish, Montana in October of 1999 to visit a childhood friend of my husband, who had also moved here — mostly because of the skiing. Well, Montana left an impression on me….
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Improving Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is an area that everyone is talking about these days. Kids need “social and emotional learning” in schools so they can thrive in real life. I’ve been mostly staying home lately, but I’ll share one event that occurred in the last two weeks to which I believe I had to use emotional intelligence….
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Mentoring – learning what you didn’t know, you didn’t know
Mentoring is one of my favorite learning topics. I like it because it is a learning method that is not used as much as I believe it should be in our modern world. Mentoring is like learning through apprenticeship; it is learning as you are doing. Specifically, to me, it means learning about what you…
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We Need Personalized Learning to Achieve the American Dream
What is the American Dream? Is it to be rich? Perhaps for some people. Or is it to be very successful, such as to be a CEO of a company? It could be that for some people. Lastly, perhaps, it is to be famous, like as a musician or an artist. This may also be…
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Will grade inflation do us in?
In my last post, I mentioned dropping out of college and being ill-prepared and requiring remedial coursework as problems in Higher Education. But, an equally large problem is grade inflation. There has been significantly higher grades given out over the last 3 decades as in the past. Higher grades are granted for “signaling” purposes. Signaling…
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Higher Ed at the Crossroads
I recently read a great book: The Case Against Education – Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan. I would agree with him. College is becoming way too expensive. I’m a parent of two and I worry about this a lot. However, I don’t agree with him that we should…
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What I Learned from Two Years of Home-Schooling
I’ll probably tell people that the best two days of my life were the day I started homeschooling and the day I stopped homeschooling. Not because I didn’t enjoy the experience. It was just really really hard, and in different ways than I would have thought. My reasons for homeschooling were many. First of all,…
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What Educational App should you use?
A couple of years ago, I attended an International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. Being the largest organization in Educational Tech, the conference was massive. The exposition hall alone contained 540 vendor booths — I counted them, from their listings in the program guide. I wondered how anyone could make sense of it…
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Group Learning or One-on-One?
Are you one of those people who loves to attend class? Do you really like the give & take of classroom discussion, while loathing the process of learning independently such as through a one-on-one tutorial? Or, perhaps it’s the other way around. You love learning independently on your own, and could take-it-or-leave-it when it comes…
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Are you smarter than a computer?
It’s a phrase that’s on everyone’s mind. If computers can do everything that people do, how will anyone make a living in the future? Unfortunately, computers and robots can do an awful lot. When solving complex equations, for example, a computer will beat any human brain hands down. Even chess playing, which seems like the…
