Category: Capsule

  • Manage your Digital Footprint and Identity

    Contents: Media Balance is Important Pause & Think Online We, The Digital Citizens Digital Trails This is Me! Our Online Tracks Beyond Gender Stereotypes Who are you Online? The Power of Digital Footprints Social Media and Digital Footprint: Our Responsibilities Protecting Online Reputations Curated Lives Who’s looking at your Digital Footprint? The Change you want…

  • Be News and Media Literate

    Content adapted from: https://www.commonsensemedia.org This learning capsule has 12 topics. You may not be able to complete all topics in one session. Consider completing this learning capsule in two sessions (30-60 min each). Media Balance is Important Sometimes what we’re doing online is so entertaining or fun that it’s easy to lose track of time.…

  • Learn Google Forms

    Google Forms is a good tool to learn if you ever need to do surveys, quizzes, or collect data from your friends, customers or, say, a hobby group you belong to. Google Forms is also very versatile, you might even start using it in new ways! Remember: Learning the tool is NOT enough. Can you…

  • Learn Agile Thinking

    While we work out a lesson plan for this skill, why not start with these reading suggestions? Sprint: How To Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five DaysChange by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

  • Learn Self-Awareness

    While we work on a learning plan (if that’s possible!), try this: https://bentoism.org/

  • Be a story teller

    Story-telling is a loaded word and can mean different things in different contexts. While we are working on a Learning Plan for this most important skill everyone should have, here are some suggestions to get you going. Read Show and Tell: How everybody can make extra-ordinary presentations by Dan Roam. Here are some notes from…

  • Learn from Fiction Books

    It’s often said that great writers are great observers of the world around them. And it’s this capacity to notice subtle details and features of life that allow them to recreate it so movingly in their work. But the very best writers are expert observers of human nature in particular. It’s their job to notice…

  • What is Growth Mindset?

    We are working on publishing a self-learning plan for this skill. In the interim, do check out this book. Mindset: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your PotentialAuthor: Carol Dweck

  • Learn Change Management

    We are working on publishing a self-learning plan for this skill. In the interim, do check out these resources. Changing human behavior is one of the most difficult efforts you will ever undertake and, quite possibly, the most rewarding. We can lead change! Here’s some help from Dr John Kotters’ books written as fables. Buy-in:…

  • Learn Non-Violent Communication

    We are working on publishing a self-learning plan for this skill. In the interim, do check out this book. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy RelationshipsWritten by Marshall B Rosenberg