10 Power Tools for Lifelong Learners

Thank you, thank you. Recent­ly found you and I love this place :)

Thanks, excel­lent info!

I like this post/blog what­ev­er. Is there a forum for life­long learn­ers? maybe I can comis­er­ate with some peo­ple who are like me still going to night class­es, online and at work well into the 50’s. Some of my friends think I am nuts.
These resources will be use­ful I think.

Thanks for this! I teach old­er stu­dents and always want info like this to share with them. Excel­lent.

This is a great set of resources, thanks for col­lect­ing them, but as has been point­ed out, they are *resources*, and learn­ing on one’s own can be a lone­ly (though not impos­si­ble) affair. Peo­ple ask about a “forum” for life­long learn­ers and the pos­si­bil­i­ties of cre­at­ing one. Yes, there are “forums” for “life­long learn­ers” already, the inter­net is lit­er­al­ly strewn with them, indeed on almost any sin­gle top­ic you could think about, I can guar­an­tee you if you look hard enough you will find peo­ple already con­nect­ing on that top­ic, in dis­cus­sion boards, mail­ing lists, blogs, wikis, com­mu­ni­ty sites. Please please please don’t make the mis­take of believ­ing the world needs Yet Anoth­er Com­mu­ni­ty Site, espe­cial­ly a gener­ic one for “life­long learn­ers”; it does­n’t. What new learn­ers need is maybe some help con­nect­ing with exist­ing com­mu­ni­ties and con­ver­sa­tions; I would ven­ture that if you applied your con­sid­er­able tal­ent for find­ing qual­i­ty open resources to iden­ti­fy­ing qual­i­ty open con­ver­sa­tions and com­mu­ni­ties this would be a MUCH more val­ue­able ser­vice to the “life­long learn­er” than any new site/forum/etc could be. Keep up the great work, sin­cere­ly, Scott Leslie

I feel very lucky for find­ing this page. It’s like find­ing a trea­sure filled with arse­nals that both young and old minds can real­ly uti­lize in order to sur­vive the mod­ern gen­er­a­tion. Thank you for shar­ing these help­ful mate­ri­als!

I just want to share some­thing per­son­al. I’ve always seen my future to be some­one who will con­tribute new knowl­edge or things that are not yet proven by any­one to the soci­ety. I believe that you have done what I have always been wish­ing to do. I’ll def­i­nite­ly use these resources to improve myself and to achieve my pur­pose in life and life­long dream.

Thank you Dan and kudos to the Inter­net!

Teach­ing your child num­bers and let­ters should be fun for the child and you.
1.) Using mul­ti-col­ored con­struc­tion paper, draw and cutout one let­ter or num­ber at a time (start­ing with “A” or “1” of course). After you do each one, get some scotch tape and tape the let­ter or num­ber to the child’s wall in his or her room. Before the child goes to bed each night, ask him or her where the let­ter “A” is on the wall. Just cut out one or two per night so that the child isn’t over­loaded, and so that you will have some­thing the two of you can look for­ward to doing each day.
2.) If you’re wait­ing some­where with your child (in line, in a doctor’s wait­ing room, etc.), just look around and try to find a sign, mag­a­zine, etc. that has num­bers and let­ters on it. Ask your child to name the let­ters or num­bers that you point out. It’s a great way to pass the time and to teach your child simul­ta­ne­ous­ly.
3.) Play a game called “Find the “A.” Tell your child to go around the house and find the let­ter “A,” whether on a book, a wall, a pic­ture, or what­ev­er might be around with let­ters on it. Reward your child with some­thing, like a treat or a stick­er. Then play “Find the let­ter “B.” With an incen­tive to find the let­ters, you’ll be sur­prised how quick­ly your child will learn.