A report highlighted by Times Ideas suggests that highlighting information as a form of learning has little real impact over simply reading the material. Yet, the evidence (and my own experience) is that this a very popular way to aid ‘learning’. The truth is that we do many things because we believe them to be …
It’s been awhile since I’ve had a fitness assessment. The last times were in 2002 and 2004. So, here we are, about 10 years on from the first one. Let’s compare today’s results with history. Today 2004 2002 Weight 79.5 Kg 99.08 Kg 111.25 Kg Height 174 176 173 Blood pressure 135/80 — 150/90 Resting pulse …
After talking with Lynne Mitchell yesterday, I thought I would try out Scopus again. Starting off withe the classic article on learning from experience (D. A. Kolb, 1976), after five or ten minutes I found myself reading another article on meta-cognition and experiential learning (A. Y. Kolb and D. A. Kolb, 2009). Absolutely fascinating1. The …
The course MGMT 300 Managing in dynamic contexts kicked off today. The first class, of an course, is always filled with a little bit of trepidation–both on my part, and probably on the part of some of the students too. I wonder if how many will try and game the team formation process. Time will tell.
It lives (again)! Bad Dog is back up and running. At this stage,I’ve set it up to allow students to maintain blogs (as a form of learning journals) and later I hope to get a wiki working again. Bad Dog was taken down a few years ago, but since then there have been a number of …
I’ve now handed in the final version of my PhD. That means it really is over until the graduation ceremony in October.
I’ve been looking at my ongoing run performance. In particular, I’ve been looking at how much (volume) of running I’ve done. The following graph shows my last three years of running, on a month-by-month basis. It’s quite interesting to see the peaks and troughs. You can generally see I’ve become more meticulous in tracking the …
Much has been written about the change from business policy to business strategy (aka strategic management). I thought it would be interesting to look at that change over time. So, searching Google’s corpus of ngram books I’ve tracked the rise and fall of business policy and business strategy. You can use business policy and strategic …
If you’re serious about training for a sport, it can be really helpful to know you VO2 max and your lactate threshold. So, I’m off the University of Auckland’s “Health and Performance Clinic”. They are doing a special (until 1 March 2012), whereby you can get either test done for just $50 (the price of …
To the relief of everyone, I submitted my PhD today. Phew.
I’m a fan of the FIRST “Run less, run faster” programme. So, I’ve cobbled together a spreadsheet that does most of the heavy lifting in terms of working out the timings that one needs to do. Just change the yellow cell to reflect your 5K race pace (that you have/can actually achieve). For a brief(ish) summary …
My goal was to break 1:35:00, and whilst this is a new personal record, I didn’t achieve that goal. But don’t get me wrong, it was fun. So, why do I think I missed my target. It would be easy (but wrong) to blame my performance on the fact that the organisers promised a coffee cart …