Entries from August 2008

August 29, 2008

Sugata Mitra: Can kids teach themselves?

Short answer: FUCK YES! I’ve LONG known this to be true from my years of “teaching” kids English in Taiwan. What I learned (especially with the young ones) is that… They don’t really need me there. I mean, I can definitely help with facilitating things, but left to their own devices kids do awesome stuff. [...]

August 26, 2008

Manna From Heaven…

Immediately after [yesterday's post titled "Last $1"] I discover that… it wasn’t my last dollar. Everything told me it should have been though. But before I get into that story, I’d like to point out how interesting [the Wikipedia entry about Manna is.] Being a gamer, I know about Manna because of the AWESOMENESS of [...]

August 25, 2008

Last $1

I don’t think you’ve TRULY lived until you’ve been down to your very last $1. THEN you have to go to a bar, drink and say man… all I have is this one dollar, I’ll have to get you next time. Life is better than the movies I tell you! lol I’m looking forward to [...]

August 24, 2008

The Wonderful World of Youtube

I thought I’d share some of the “random events” I ran into on Youtube today. First, a freestyle someone decided to share with me. I’m guessing it was inspired from [a video I recently did about hip hop]: Subject: I’m not a rapper — Got my Iphone friday, and a freestyle came to me today [...]

August 22, 2008

Work

Man… I LOVE working, but aint too fond of “work.” (If that makes any sense.) I’m going to learn ALL kinds of stuff being at this school. For example… Getting Things Done I was told when I first came in that my room would be cleared out for me and then I could put what [...]