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En græsk statue. Billede på antikkens tætte bånd mellem æstetik, kunst, filosofi og matematik.
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But the city is also home to some fantastic indie bookstores that book lovers won’t want to miss. If you’re ready to curl up with a good book then you’re in luck!
Here are 11 local bookstores in Toronto you need to check out:
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From Barack Obama to Stephen Hawking and Quincy Jones, jazz master Herbie Hancock recommends his favourite books of all time by Tom Taylor, Far Out Magazine.
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Herbie Hancock is the William Shakespeare of jazz, in the sense that even the uninitiated recognise his name as a measure of quality. Over the course of his career, he has established himself as a beloved master of the art form who has pushed the genre into the future with forward-thinking innovation and the requisite style to pull it off.
Behind his style is a definite notion of self-expression and expansion. As he said himself, “Don’t be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That’s where the joy and the adventure lie.” Clearly, that same notion has impacted his literary tastes and no doubt they have in turn fed into his work in a self-perpetuating cycle of inspiration.
One of the main books that inspired the musician is Barack Obama’s memoir Dreams From My Father. “I’ve had the good fortune to meet President Obama,” he told The Week. “I believe he’s a compassionate man, and my impression of him is compatible with how he describes the flow of his life from his early childhood.”
Another of his bookshelf favourites is Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter by Michelle Mercer. As Hancock explains, “Wayne Shorter is a saxophonist, a wonderful composer, a very bright and extremely creative person, and also my best friend.”...
You can check out all of his recommended reading list below.
Source: Far Out Magazine
Have a look at these books.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, Transit Books, Semiotext(e),
West Virginia University Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Grand Central
Publishing, Knopf, Liveright, Melville House, Tom Doherty
Featuring unputdownable thrillers, underrated books in translation, dystopian fiction, piercing criticism, and so much more — this list has something for everyone.
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Check out these news books.
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Source: The Guardian
In the certificate programs I manage, we are engaged in the tumultuous whirlwind of complete curriculum overhaul, argues Vicki Caruana, academic program manager and professor at the School of Professional Studies in the City University of New York.
At
times it does appear as if pieces of the puzzle are swirling in the air
above our heads like debris caught up in the funnel of a tornado.
Instead of worrying that this is all out of our control, I choose to
view the process of putting together a meaningful curriculum for our
learners as something a little more elegant.
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Employing the process of backward design is one crucial component to this endeavor. The other is significant learning. Significant learning (Fink, 2003) presumes that we first desire that what our learners gain is significant, and not insignificant. As current experts in our fields, we are in a unique position to determine what is considered as significant learning in our disciplines. For our purposes, significant learning is not only determined by the faculty, it is determined as well by our accreditors and other agencies within our discipline to which we are accountable. The professionalization of a field depends on a common agreement of what is significant learning.
Significant learning is more than just deciding what types of learning are significant. We must frame this learning in a taxonomy that offers opportunity to reflect on deeper meaning. Fink (2003) proposed a taxonomy of significant learning that honors Bloom’s taxonomy, yet takes it to a higher level. As an educator in a public institution, I see a clear connection to our mission and vision in this taxonomy (see Figure 1)...
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Coupled with active learning, learner-centered course development is the vehicle for promoting significant learning that is transformational. If you or your colleagues are engaged in any type of course development, consider the tenets of significant learning on which to build.
Source: Faculty Focus
Angela Ash, expert content writer, editor and marketer recommends, Remote work is certain to keep expanding, but people new to it often face a couple of conundrums, notably in the case of communication and project management.
Here are some tips on how to master the art of working remotely...
ConclusionSome of these tips are applicable to office work, as well as for remote work. Boosting morale and encouraging communication and engagement is simply the only way forward. While means of delivering the message may be different, the core remains unchanged. Don’t forget anonymous feedback, as it can come in handy in a variety of situations.
Think about remote teams as startups — one large extended family working for shared goals and experiencing all successes and failures together. Rather than forcing the standpoint that everyone is replaceable, take your time to build a remote team where everyone can express their strengths in the best way possible and boost joint efforts in their own unique way.
Source: Business 2 Community
Madison Morine is a digital nomad. It’s a new title he’s only had since January, but it’s one he’d like to keep by The Denver Channel.
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He’s always wanted to take time off from work and travel the country, but the pandemic has allowed him, and millions more, to work remotely and travel at the same time.
“The memories have been fantastic,” said Madison Morine. “I've seen things this year that I’ve never seen before.”...
Morine is part of a growing group of traditional working professionals who are traveling while working remote, or digital nomads. This group grew by 96% from 2019 to 2020 from 3.2 to more than 6.3 million people, according to a study by MBO Partners.
Source: The Denver Channel
Vanessa Brown, production journalist at the FT says, Jubril Agoro remembers first hearing the word “coronavirus” last March in Bali, Indonesia. “I was just panicking,” he says.
Jo Lodge and Farez Rahman relocated to Malaysia from the UK in 2017
After 11 years on the road, the co-founder of financial education business Live Richer Academy and founder of travel video company Passport Heavy rushed to get on a flight back to the US.
Agoro, 34, is one of a growing number of digital nomads — people who work remotely online and are “location independent”. According to a report by MBO Partners, which supports independent professionals and their clients, their numbers have increased by 49 per cent in the US during the pandemic, rising from 7.3m in 2019 to 10.9m in 2020. The “biggest shift is that traditional job holders have been unleashed from their offices and many, instead of staying in one place, are taking to the road,” the report adds.
A nomadic life is appealing — and some countries, such as Barbados and Bermuda, are trying to attract more remote workers. But the wider tax implications of working away from your home country are complex. Anyone planning to work abroad long-term needs to get specialist tax advice...
Hopes for the future The digital nomad lifestyle may be an appealing next move for some workers who have unexpectedly become freed from office life. According to MBO Partners’ report, between 2019 and 2020 there was an 18 per cent increase in Americans saying they “plan on becoming digital nomads over the next two to three years”. Agoro says: “One of my biggest goals is just to show people, open people’s minds to, this is possible and it’s a lot easier and more affordable than people even thought.”
Source: Financial Times
Opinion: It's too soon for 100% capacity in-person classes by Student at Texas State University.
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Texas State students, faculty and staff are expected to return to full capacity in-person classes at the start of the fall 2021 semester. This news came from President Denise Trauth, who on April 7, sent out a campus-wide email announcing the university's return to normalcy.
While the return to a pre-pandemic campus experience may come as a sense of relief for some students, others feel uneasy about sitting in a lecture hall surrounded by potentially unvaccinated and mask-free peers.
With the fall semester approaching, Trauth aims to provide all students, faculty and staff the opportunity to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, with a model projecting the administration of 1,500-1,800 doses a week.
Despite this hopeful projection, Texas State should not return to fully in-person classes for the fall semester. Instead, the university should opt for opening at 75% for the fall 2021 semester until more students are fully vaccinated...
Furthermore, the delta variant of COVID-19 is of concern to the CDC. As of June 20, the variant accounts for 20% of new U.S. COVID-19 cases. This variant is highly contagious and more severe than the normal strain of COVID-19. However, health experts say the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines are nearly 90% effective at preventing illness of the delta variant.
Source: University Star
Tom Bennett, Director and Founder of researchEd in the United Kingdom, on what evidence tells us about the future and purpose of education.
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AS COVID-19 SWEPT THROUGH THE WORLD, SOME AREAS OF OUR lives were more deeply affected than others, one of them being education. Before the pandemic, technology had started taking a more prominent place in education, and online learning was being integrated into the system.
When Covid-19 struck, schools and tertiary institutions were forced to change their models rapidly, migrating to digital options. Soon, the talk pivoted to blended learning and hybrid solutions, combining in-person and virtual classrooms and teaching methods. How likely are we to return to old teaching methods and classroom settings, we ask educationist, author and speaker Tom Bennett, who hails from the United Kingdom (UK) and is the Director and Founder of researchED...
Bennett has written four books on classroom behavior and evidence-informed education. “Ideas about how we manage behavior are still stuck in the 19th century, and too many teachers and schools are forced to reinvent the wheel every generation instead of building upon what we have found to work and improving upon it,” he explains.
“Teachers rarely get an evidence-informed training as they begin their careers, and many schools still make decisions based on intuition, gut feeling and hunches. But children – and teachers – deserve much better than that. We can do much better than that.”
Source: Forbes Africa
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