The Truth about Hope
It is Thanksgiving day in the US, and most of us are having turkey for dinner. As you reflect on the past year, is it a year filled with hope and excitement or one with frustration and disappointment?
Through today’s podcast interview we’ll learn that even the frustrating and disappointing events in our lives can be a catalyst for hope.
Allison Jenson is a professionally certified educational therapist at the National Institute for Learning Development. Her experience leads us through difficulty into hope. If you are looking for a great feel-good story about overcoming significant challenges, click the link and listen in for inspiration.
With Thanks and Hope,
Steve
PS – From all of us at Table Top Inventing, Happy Thanksgiving as we all take time to be thankful and spend time with our family and friends!
Muahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!! Ok, now that I have that out... I can get to work. For as long as I can remember, I have been making things. This habit used to be called "Inventing" but has lately been repurposed by the Maker community with the term "Maker". While there are some subtle differences between Inventing and Making, I have discovered my passion for both by inspiring a new generation of Makers. In this quest to spark creative thinking and problem solving through practical and exciting projects, I draw on my background in biomedical research, high energy fiber laser development, and 15 years of building laboratory devices. As an experimental physicist with a PhD from Case Western Reserve University, I have seen research and development from many angles and am now bringing that experience to middle school and high school students who want to make everything from catapults to cybernetic augmentations. Through the medium of Making and Inventing, students are transformed from passive observers of education to active learners. This powerful shift fosters deep insights, creative expression, collaborative thinking and a host of other skills that are difficult to learn in traditional settings. Along with my wife Debby, an accomplished constructivist educator, I am on a quest to transform education and am looking for like-minded collaborators to bring hands-on learning to future generations.
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