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Work ethic supersedes what we call “inspiration”

Sep 22, 2014

in Writing

council on higher education, leonard cohen, Massimo Vignelli, quality enhancement project, writing

Cohen approaches his work with extraordinary doggedness reflecting the notion that work ethic supersedes what we call “inspiration” — something articulated by such acclaimed and diverse creators as the celebrated composer Tchaikovsky (“A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.”), novelist Isabel Allende (“Show up,…
T&L seminar with UCT Law Faculty

Jul 18, 2014

in Learning, Workshop

Alan Rycroft, Anton Fagan, authentic learning, che, council on higher education, Geo Quinot, Google Drive, laptop, Memory, QEP, quality enhancement project, Recall, UCT Law Faculty, university of cape town

Earlier this year I was invited by Alan Rycroft at the UCT Law Faculty to give a presentation at a seminar on T&L. The seminar took place yesterday and I presented some research that I did in 2012 where we used Google Drive as an implementation platform for authentic learning. I’ve written about authentic learning before,…