Since the birth of my 3rd daughter in late 2009 time became even more scarce, so I focused my open learning mainly on
- sharing bookmarks on delicious,
- discussing on twitter, and
- posting interesting multimedia resources -such as videos- with short comments on my posterous microblog,
- all together aggregated via friendfeed.
The Alive Learning blog became a space for longer reflections in Greek and English.
Today, I ‘d like to make an exception and post here a video that demonstrates metaphorically the approach of learning as hard fun. (Good) learning has two dimensions;
- it should be challenging, demanding, cognitively stretching in context with respective real-world situations.
- At the same time learning should be an enjoyable, meaningful experience (remember Kirkpatrick).
As human beings we have a tendency to focus on ease and avoid pain. So can we motivate learners to embrace willingly hardship?
The following video tackles a question in a relevant situation: how can you convince people to take the stairs instead of an elevator in the subway? Here is a great idea; adding good fun to the extra walking strain – and it works! Check it out here.
What are your stairs and elevator? How can you add fun to the harder task of taking the stairs?
P.S.
Check out European Music Day with lots of free events around Greece.
UPDATE: Check out also Funiversity concept.
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