MegaMind / Mega Learning Day 2018
Over the past year, Learning Day has been an unwavering pillar of the work we do. We gather every 2 Fridays in small groups of 8–10 people to just immerse in free, open learning about anything and everything.
At each session, every participant shares/teaches something they know. Anything goes! No matter how simple it might be.
MegaMind/ Mega Learning Day 2018 was a celebration of this open learning effort, where we brought together more people and newbies to our community to revel in relentless learning.
We broke our participants into 4 groups, where they went on to share their knowledge and wisdom within their groups.
Here we’re listing out all the topics that were covered during MegaMind here, just to keep us all aware of what happened.
We’ll be littering quotes from our participants as well, about what they felt were valuable take-aways from MegaMind!
Praxium opened up the session by having our facilitators teach how to make reusable nametags using craft paper & magnets.
Participating learners went on to share/teach whatever they prepared (or didn’t prepare 😂). We didn’t know what to expect, but this is what we got!
Was great to learn about new things and dialogue with others in an organic setting. Great to see the possibilities of the meeting of minds in these ways.
-Lily Ng
Everyone always has something to share & always come in with an open mind :D -Ying Jie
Learning from people of all walk of life and age groups. -Guobin
I loved the diversity in terms of the range of topics discussed, and how open it is for topics of any (or almost any) nature :) -Anil
Meeting people sharing similar interests and a passion for lifelong learning and contributing -Aik Yang
I was introduced to new topics that I otherwise wouldn’t have been exposed to.
-Matthias
Learning can be very bite sized :) like learning how to cook a sausage well!
-Joycelyn Chua
The constructive discussions brought up many possibilities and opinions, and helped me realize there is still a lot I don’t know, and so much I can learn. -Abigail
Learnt a lot about different areas and topics in a single day! My biggest takeaway is how facilitation is about finding methods and techniques to start conversations! — Vincent Ng
The People, Their Topics, Details & Resources for everyone’s sharing
Dexter — Relationship Banking. How relationships are key to making anything happen, and how they are just as important as making a living.
Vincent — Publishing a book in Singapore. Check out Why You Should Fail, a book that Vincent wrote and published!
Clara — Tele-Medicine, it’s uses and benefits, and her experience working in a startup.
Edmund — Decision making using Probability (Bayes Theorem) and how it can help us make better decisions in life.
Zihao — Decision making theories. And Roko’s Basilisk, and why it will ruin your life.
Benjamin — Visual Facilitation. Using images and drawings to capture ideas and spark imagination. Use of some basic activities to engage people to use visuals in discussions.
Lisabelle — Marbling paper using shaving cream.
Ying Jie — Photoshop Basics, like layering, croping, cloning, recoloring. More tips here! By the way, she only picked up Photoshop in the past few weeks!
Gia Phua — Noticing Design in Everyday Life, and the influence that design has over us. Such as positioning of ads and items in ships to engage the 5 senses of customers.
Xi-Wei — Gamification concepts applied to help engage with clients. The legit way.
Guo Bin — User Experience Design, and how to give & receive “NO”! Separate short read on similar topic!
Aik Yang — Education Culture & Innovation around the world. And using post-its to plan a speech!
Anil — How his interaction with students from his work in Cornerstone leads to thoughts about education in Singapore.
S.G — Neuroscience in Education, and how that is similar to Singapore (a small thing being able to affect big change).
Jonathan — Basic Korean.
James Chan — How the stock market works.
Yuki — How to shop on Taobao. The tips are here!
Scarlett — How to make better arguments. Be Grammatical, Simple, Easy-To-Follow.
Kelvin — 80,000 hours Career Planning resource, applied in a personal career transition. By the way, you can speak to us if you want support on career planning.
Hui Zheng — How to cook sausages the proper way. Steamed+Boiled.
Matthias — “The life changing magic of tidying up” by Marie Kondo.
Grace — Gaining trust from people who are very guarded. Read more of her amazing writing at RICE Media.
Joycelyn — 4 easy steps to change behaviour (Easy, Attractive, Social, Timely)
Raymond — Mindfulness and a couple of practices with a bell, breathing and walking.
Isaac — 4 Levels of Happiness. Very broadly summarized here. Isaac explained it way better.
Jum — Anger management, the 5 main ways.
Lily — Johari’s Window, used in Self-Awareness and other tools like StrengthsFinder.
Daniel — 1 potential ingredient for happier cities referencing Book: Happy City by Charles Montgomery. With Reffen in Copenhagen as an excellent case.
Ka Shen — Understanding that people’s personal interest will always influence their behavior and decisions.
Lih Wei — How to hack into phones/computers using basic stuff like sounds and lights.
Zhi Han — Word Puzzles/Cryptography: how mining and bitcoin works. He’s also publishing a book about it!
Abigail /Yun Qi — Basics of Website Design, and how to identify basic elements of a site’s code.
Mei Hui — How blockchain works.
Wen Bin — Astrophysics: how to visualize the five dimensions with Interstellar (the movie).
Louis — Planning a wedding in 1 Month.
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Everyone has something to share! For me it took awhile to decide what I wanted to share but I realised that things that I’m so used to doing may be something that someone doesn’t know and worth learning about for that person. -Yuki
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