by Margie Meacham | Dec 29, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
Vulnerable, entitlement, diversity, transgender, fetus, evidence-based, science-based. These seven words created quite a stir when it was reported that the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued an internal style guide advising employees to avoid these words if...
by Margie Meacham | Dec 7, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
The Judeo-Christian story of the Garden of Eden tells us that the devil, disguised as a snake, tricks Adam and Eve into eating of the forbidden fruit on the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. However, a recent study suggests that early, long-term exposure to snakes...
by Margie Meacham | Nov 30, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
The Greek philosopher and mathematician, Pythagoras, discovered the relationship between the length of a string on an instrument and the pitch that the string produces. He believed that this correlation was part of a harmonic relationship that connects everything in...
by Margie Meacham | Nov 17, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
The U.S. is one of several countries that celebrates the end of the harvest with a day of giving thanks – that we’re prepared to survive another winter. With the word “survival” in the opening line, you’ve probably guessed that I’m about...
by Margie Meacham | Nov 16, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
The Expectation Effect is a concept in psychology that suggests we get the results in life that we have come to expect. Sadly, many of us – myself once included – have developed a belief that we are “no good” at math. If you are one of those people, it may...
by Margie Meacham | Nov 10, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
Where were you on 9/11/2001? I was teaching a virtual class early in the morning from my home in Rio Verde, Arizona. Suddenly, my students started disappearing. I had 20 participants, then 15, then 10, then none. I kept teaching until I had covered all the content,...
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