Apr 15, 2009

Buddhist Philosophy + Microblogging = Transformative Learning + Connectivism - PERSONAL LEARNING NODES #11 (Orig. posted to Twitwall on Dec. 06, 2008)


Today is the 91st Independence Day of Finland. I captured the Finnish flag hanging all calm - after the several heavy storms we've recently experienced in Finland. The setting December sun coloured the wall. The building is the Tapiola Church is Espoo, Finland. It's 02.50 p.m. - a moment right before the sunset this time of the year in the South Coast.

I browsed the website: Words of Wisdom by Buddhist Philosopher Daisaku Ikeda:

1) Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature and independent people. It is the inner struggle to polish these attributes that is the key. Real love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only be fostered between two strong people secure in their individuality.

2) Every person, no matter how accomplished, has shortcomings. Conversely, no matter how bad someone's negative tendencies, that person definitely has strong points. The key is to identify an individual's strengths and give him or her the opportunity to succeed.

These two quotes knit together ideas currently actual to me:

I) Different phases of learning and management processes constantly include opposite poles. The steps or targets are difficult to reach if the opposite stage or condition of the process phases are not repeatedly: a) Monitored / observed, b) The process adjusted accordingly and the most important c) Practical new ways of action taken in to practice.

2) The iterative process ...c => a => b => c => a => b... easily starts to seem as something complicated, something requiring a special quality project, training or at least dedicated hours. They are impossible to arrange for - the process itself needs pruning and speeding up.

1 + 2 is what I've most experienced myself during recent years and that's what I keep hearing so many others to repeatedly complain. I discussed mircoblogging - HOW and WHY - in my previous Twitwall post. Trying to put simple the answer to the question: HOW and WHY is mircoblogging a way out of stuck projects? -Based on my own experince of several years of participating quality trainings => working / consulting in development projects => studying at a Technical University (+ Uni. of Appl. Sciences) I believe in microblogging => sharing through thinking 2.0 because: It's the first practical tool to understand and control processes from one's own point of view => take care of the whole in pieces of a realistic size. One piece at a time.


BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY + MICROBLOGGING = TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING + CONNECTIVISM

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