- K boges: stop chasing progressions, the clean reps along the way are the thing that will net you gains, not some complex advanced variation that you achieve at the end.
- alkouk2024: Process product model. With GenAI now, it’s shining a spotlight on how teachers need to evaluate the process vs the product. GenAI can bang out a research paper or piece of software (the product) no problem. It’s the steps that lead you to your product that activate the problem-solving and critical thinking skills we want to foster in our students. So we must find ways to assess the process. Again, the process is the thing that matters.
- Stop to smell the roses for it is the scent you will remember (gotta work on that one)
- Any habit you’re trying to cultivate, start small. Walk 10 minutes once a week because if you can’t even do that, you’re toast.
For whom, for what, was that bird singing? No mate, no rival was watching it. What made it sit at the edge of the lonely wood and pour its music into nothingness? (Orwell, 1949)
This speaks to me because I struggle with doing something just for the sake of doing it. I often ask myself what “enjoyment” actually is and how people can do something to simply have fun and not get anything “productive” out of it.
Orwell, G. (1949). Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker and Warburg.