Have you noticed that traditional relationships seem like the thing of the past?  I mean, it's very challenging to connect with people unlike in the past, when we oftentimes met people in our workplace, maybe the town or village we lived in. It was much easier. Maybe it was our college, maybe our school. And now the landscape of dating has changed so much that it makes it difficult to determine if someone legitimately wants something serious or something casual.  I'm just gonna call it for what it is. So I think it's important to explore why is this the case? Is it the dating apps is the problem? Is it the swipe dating apps? Is it because there's this paradox of choice? Is it because people are unconscious? Is it because people can hide behind the screen? Is that part of the problem with connecting with people who are serious versus those who are casual? Is it because of the hookup culture? Is that part of the problem? Is it so easy? And I'm pleased for give this analogy whether it relates or not, can you get the milk for free instead of buying the cow? Is that it? Are these part of the problems? Or is there something deeper underneath that causes human beings to give mixed signals? And this is true. Listen, my audience is women, so I get it. You'd like to point the finger at men. But I want you to know there's always three fingers pointing back at you. Ladies, you're no picnic either. You give mixed signals all the time. It's very confusing for us men because quite frankly, it's confusing because there, I mean, there was because this overwhelm of perceived choice and dysfunctionality. So let's go under the surface. Why does this happen? Why do men give mixed signals? And or why do men and women give mixed signals? Well, I think it's really important to address that childhood wounds and traumas as well as adult traumas cause humans beings to be rather dysfunctional in their dating lives. Let me repeat that human beings are rather dysfunctional in their dating lives. And if you haven't seen my chart, now it's gonna take me a second to find it because it's buried here. There's basically emotional maturity and relationship skills for most humans is weak. And if you haven't seen my chart on emotional maturity and relationship skills, I want you to note here, it says, this is merely, this is not a fact. It's merely an opinion. I believe roughly 20% of the population has clinical issues. Orderline personality, bipolar, narcissism, these are things that are diagnosed issues. And while I say over here, 20% of the population is healthy, that's being ridiculously generous because most everybody is dysfunctional. So is there any wonder if a human being is rather dysfunctional that they might operate in characteristics that isn't consistent? You know, we all love the idea of people with character and integrity, actions matching words. Of course that sounds great. But if you've had childhood wounds and traumas and adult traumas like divorce, and divorce for those of us in midlife is an unraveling of the tapestry of our old life and oftentimes it's a contentious experience. Ladies, I hear you complain all the time about your ex-husbands. Well, men complain all the time about their ex-wives. And maybe you can find the truth in the middle of that. And childhood wounds and traumas, folks. There's a picture of my mom and dad, okay? This was when they were in their 20s. My mom blessed her heart. She was a loving person. But anytime she was upset at my dad, my brother or I, she would withdraw love from us. She'd stonewall. She would literally go silent for days and I'm a little 12 year old boy going, mommy, love me, mommy, love me, mommy, love me, when she abandoned us. And imagine how this wears on a human being. And I'm just one example of that. It created an anxious attachment style with me. Within me, if you're not familiar with love attachment style, I highly recommend checking out the book Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller to understand the difference between anxious, avoidant and secure attachment styles. And also another dysfunctionality within humans, men and women alike, is we gravitate to partners that are unhealthy for us because we're trying to heal a childhood wound within our parents. Why do women choose bad boys? It's because their daughter, excuse me, their father was most likely dysfunctional in his life. And if you're not familiar with the book, Getting the Love You Want by Harvelle Hendricks and Helen Hutt, I highly recommend you check this out so you can learn about the Imago. The Imago means mirror imaging, it's image. We choose based on our upbringing, our imprinting. So is it any wonder when we choose the wrong partner for us, we're going to give mixed signals because one side of us wants one thing, but we're fighting against the other side that's trying to heal a wound. And yet so often, women as well as men throw the other person under the bust as lacking character, lacking integrity. When a lot of this is so ingrained in us, it's so ingrained that it's difficult unless you've done the healing work to actually improve your personality to improve your negative patterns and limiting beliefs. This is why I continually recommend the book The Hoffman Process. This is a deep dive into healing childhood wounds and traumas, which actually frees you from making poor choices. And most of you are suckling on the nipple of I need you to love me so I can feel good about myself. I need you to love me so I can feel good about myself. I need you to love me so I can feel good about myself. Ladies, I'm sorry on some level you operate from a biological instinctual perspective of dependency on men throughout caveman history up until about 50 or 60 years ago, women were predominantly dependent upon men for survival. So no wonder it's ingrained in you.  And yet it sets you up for failure because if you choose the wrong man, you might give your heart to the wrong human being, the man who's not capable of going serious. He might only be capable of casual. And if you need some help with that, check out this link, jonathanaslake.com for recall to schedule a discovery call with me to see if working with a coach is right for you. I help you learn how to ask the right questions to determine based on your personality to determine if he's the right fit for you. So I wanna lean into this conversation about casual relationships in particular because I have noticed that roughly about 80% of those of us in midlife are experiencing more casual relationships than serious relationships. And there's a couple of reasons for this. It's kind of interesting. I was speaking to a guy at the jacuzzi earlier today and he was asking me for, this is a guy I know. I think he's in his mid 40s. Nice guy, school teacher, you know, really good human being. I feel he is a good human being anyway. He's divorced, a couple of kids. And he was telling me how there was a woman he really liked. And he said, basically I'm looking for something casual and nothing serious. And he thinks he might have scared the woman away based on that. I said, yeah, you probably did. But he goes, jonathan, I really liked her. Well, you led with the wrong scenario. You should say I'm genuinely looking for a fully committed relationship, something serious. But he thought, since it wasn't with her, he shouldn't say that. A lot of men state they want casual when they actually want a serious relationship because they don't maybe want a serious relationship with you. So in the beginning stages when a guy says casual, I suggest calling them out. Is that definitively casual? Or is it, you don't want to imply that you want something serious with me and take that off the table. Take that off the table, look, I get it. But let me ask you a question, dude. I want something fully committed. Do you want something fully committed? I'm not expecting you to want it with me. I just wanna know where you're at. And he actually said to me, he goes, yeah, I'm gonna start saying I want a fully committed relationship. It just didn't occur to him because he thought, because so many men are afraid of making a promise they can't keep. I'm gonna repeat that. So many men are afraid of making a promise they can't keep. So take that off the table for them, make it easy for them by stating, look, I want something serious, but I also know it takes time to get to know someone. In fact, this is why I'm such a big proponent. It's what my girlfriend and I have done is we laid our cards on the table right after we agreed we wanted to see each other. And by the way, we literally bypassed the dating process. We saw each other twice and we went immediately into exploring a relationship. We were very intentional. We were very intentional because we laid the cards on the table. We use radical honesty, which means being vulnerable, authentic and transparent without compromising your boundaries. But it's how we set the standard what is laying on the cards on the table? Look it, it requires a couple of things. You have to have a strong connection with the other person. You have to be intentional on what you want, okay? And you have to be self-aware. You have to know your own problems. Look it, I just shared about my mom. So I have a capacity to lean in really fast and get scared and then lean in really fast and get scared and lean in fast and get scared. That's my patterning. Now I'm aware enough to know that it doesn't have to be my experience. It's just my patterning, okay? So I'm aware of that. So I shared that with her. Now a lot of women would say, oh my God, this guy is needy.  I am far from being a beta male, okay? But I don't need to sell myself on whether or not I'm an alpha or not because I've certainly accomplished more than most human beings on the light. But I'm getting into the point is I know my deficiencies. I know my red flags and I asked her to share her red flags. It takes a level of awareness. This is why when I wrote my book, What the Heck Is Self Love Anyway? A Journey of Personal Development, Self-Help and Spiritual Work. By the way, there's a link in the description below to signing up to my group, getting a copy of my book, signing up for a free discovery call. By the way, if this content is resonating with you right now, please hit that like button. Please subscribe to my channel. Please share this with friends. Why I'm saying, why I'm suggesting this is if you want to really accelerate the process of getting to know someone because here's the bottom line. These days we're meeting total strangers. I highly recommend reading the book, Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell. When you're meeting strangers, it takes more effort to build trust with another human being and it requires better communication skills. And let me tell you something ladies, you guys are just, you think you're so good at communicating, but I've got to tell you just because you can vomit your feelings doesn't mean you're good communicators. Watch the TV show Couples Therapy on Showtime, Couples Therapy. The women are just as bad as the man at communicating their feelings. This is why I highly recommend checking out the book, Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg. By the way, Jonathan, all you do is recommend books. Folks, for 15, you can spend $150 and change your life in one year. Let me repeat that. You can literally grow from the inside out so you become a better partner for a person by reading or audio version of books or watching them on YouTube.  And no wonder we're in a such a dysfunctional society. Thank God the younger generation is adopting therapy more so than those of us that are tail end baby boomers or Gen Xers. And I yell just because I feel like your children about to touch fire. I'm trying to say, wake up.   That's it. We're all dysfunctional for the most part. Look, I'm your big brother.  I'd point at the guy's face and I'd say, what's your intentions with my little sister? You've got to do that for yourself. How are you going to figure out who's casual and who's serious? Because the bottom line is this, if you're in a casual relationship, then I invite you to be empowered and step back a little bit. Be empowered and step back a little bit. What stepping back is, is listen, is not giving more than them. I always say a relationship is like a two lane street. You're traveling on the street at the same speed, but let him travel a little bit more. Don't go ahead of him. Now, I'd say interrogate the motherfucker. Be radically honest right from the get go. I'm sorry.   Only, let me reframe that. A guy who's serious about a relationship will jump through more hoops. The guy who's not serious about a relationship, he won't jump through any hoops.  How many of you are in unlabeled relationships? A lot. Why are you giving your vagina to a guy? I'm sorry, I'm saying it this way.  Okay, I'm yelling. Chill out Jonathan. I'm passionate about this because I witness mistake after mistake after mistake. You give your power away to men.  A guy is not in charge of your destiny. You're in charge of your destiny.  So listen, eight out of 10 guys you meet are gonna operate from casual. Now here's the deal. If he likes you a lot, then you make him jump through all kinds of hoops. You hold off on sex, you ask him radically honest questions, you get deeper than the surface. And I gotta tell you guys are terrible at doing this. I also recommend reading this book, Why Men Love Bitches. Bitch stands for babe in total control of herself. Yes, be in your empowerment. Be in your empowerment. By the way, there's another book I haven't recommended in a while. I highly recommend reading this too. Read Dale Carnegie's How to Win and Influence People. This is a great book to learn how to really connect with human beings that are strangers in your life. Because if we're meeting total strangers, we need a level of trust.  Read the book, Eight Dates by Drs. John and Julie Gottman. At least read chapter one together, which is all about commitment. Listen, most men are good guys, but they're winging it, they're winging it.   It was easy when that was the blueprint. That was the traditional blueprint. For us midlife, that blueprint doesn't exist. You know what it is? It's like I got burnt in my divorce. I don't wanna pay alimony. I don't wanna pay for someone else. And you ladies, you don't wanna be a nurse or purse either, so this is why it's partially dysfunctional. The traditional expectations. So I want you to look at it from a different vantage point. Okay, you're not gonna find most men that are intentional like me. It's just not gonna happen. So understand you have to find the diamond in the rough, like the guy at the jacuzzi. The guy who genuinely wants a serious relationship. You just gotta call them out. Stop giving men a pass and start calling them out. If they like you, they'll make the investment. And if they don't, you're on to the next one.  Look it, online dating sites have better success than the swipe apps. The swipe apps, I mean, it is literally a lottery on the swipe apps. The dating apps. Listen, I met my girlfriend through match.com that's a plug for match.com. We met over a year ago. We met a year ago before we physically met.  She read it and said, wow, I appreciate what he wrote. She made the first move. And even then I kind of reject her because it's distance, but that's another story. Anyway, listen, I know men give mixed signals. The reason being is we're all messed up. And I got to fix my computer here for a second. And most guys are doing the best they can. Most guys are doing the best they can. Don't judge the man, judge the circumstances because most human beings have had tough childhoods and maybe are tough, tough adult lives. So why not get better at being in a position where you're empowered rather than giving your power away to a man? That's my invitation for you. All right, is this sinking in? Is this resonating with you? Please let me know. Hit that like button. Please share this video. Please subscribe to my channel. Hit the bell so you can be notified of videos. We're gonna start our Q and A section in just a, or yeah, our segment in just a second. If you know my format, you simply write the word question and then post a question thereafter or purchase a super stick or super chat or a super thanks. There's a little dollar sign. All the monies from the super sticker, super thanks goes to a scholarship fund in the name of my son, Connor Asley, who passed away. That's a picture of him there. That's a picture of him there. He passed away four years ago, two days ago. I've had to make the choice to kind of, I don't wanna say let him go but to move through this in a different way. So I'm allowing myself not to, I may not talk about, I may even discontinue the scholarship fund. I don't know. But I'm here to say if it wasn't for him passing away, I don't think I would have broken open my heart to be able to write my book. And so for that, I'm grateful. And at the same time, I miss him dearly. So anyways, please purchase a super sticker, super chat. This way I can find your question much quicker and you can support the scholarship fund that goes to help pay for the charities like the Hoffman process and Insight seminars just to name a few. All right, let's see. Okay, Dale wants to know what's your testosterone results? To be honest with you, I'm gonna go see a different doctor. I didn't agree with my GP. So I don't know the answer for that. But thank you for asking. All right, let's go swim in. Here's Pamela Hyde says, I'm a physician. I've never seen anyone heal of mind, body, spirit unless they're willing to do the work on self-discovery and put into action self-responsibility, self-advocacy. Yay, that's exactly it. Thank you, Pamela. That's exactly it. All right, let's see what else we have. You have a question post the word question. So it's easier for me to find or purchase a super sticker, super chat. Okay, Anya says, question. Can you please do a live post on people in their seventies dating and being sexually active? Both divorced and both have been emotionally hurt. Thank you. You know, I want to be candid. I'm in my fifties, okay? I think when we get to our seventies, especially later seventies, the dating dynamic changes radically. And I don't know enough to speak from experience in that age demographic. I can only extrapolate from what I observe. And I will say that just like people in their forties and fifties and sixties, I'm a big proponent of individuals doing the personal development work so they can actually be empowered in the dating process. And most importantly, listen, I think I met my person. I really do believe I met my soulmate. I really do believe that. I share that because I can see even in a short period of time, we are intentional. We are radically honest. We lay the cards on the table. But I also recognize that the last five years that I've been single, I got really, I got to a point where I felt happy with my own company because the reality is, is whether I met a mate or not. At the end of the day, we all, I don't wanna say we die alone, but we only can rely on ourselves to some degree for our happiness. We cannot make our happiness dependent on being in relationship. So, but to the extent coming back to your question about 70-year-olds, let me just say this. Many people are young 70s. Many people are old 70s. Ultimately, if you can attract people to ask you out on dates, then do the work that I've been suggesting. So, you're prepared to be in a relationship with this person and vet them, just like I suggest vetting those in their 40s, 50s or 60s. So, apply the same principles at your age. And by the way, the greatest, the best place to meet these people at retirement homes, at assisted living facilities, at, you know, not retirement homes, but, you know, over 55 communities. That's the place to hang out to meet them and there's an abundance of people. There's probably gonna be more women than men. But that's my suggestion to you. Anya, thank you so much for that question. I really appreciate it. All right, let's go swim, man. Oh, we got another, sorry about that. All right, question, question. Here we go, let's, oh, we got Victoria writes question. I have a man in my life who I believe knows I love him and he sends me signals that he loves me. No movement. We are 25 years apart. He's older. So, what's your question? How to get him to move? How to get him to move? Just tell him, ask him out on a date. Victoria, ask him out on a date and make out with him. Then see what happens. Do take some action. My girlfriend emailed me first. Take some action. That's my suggestion for you. Ask him out on a date. All right, question. He says he doesn't even know what love is between two people anymore. So, how do I get him to see the love from me to him? How do I get him to see the love? Okay, so let's talk about what is love?  I mean, really, isn't love being there through the thick and thin? So, if you haven't built the roots to trust, how can he trust that what you're saying is sincere if he's not building the roots at the same time? So, I believe in radical honesty because I believe you're not experiencing love. You're experiencing love attachments. Attachment style. You're feeling attachment and not genuine love because it's not real love unless two people are experiencing it at the same time. In my opinion, it's not real love. It might be unrequited love, but it's most likely attachment to another human being. So, ask him out on dates.  Make out with him.  I mean, do some action, okay? Now, you haven't given me enough information to know what you guys have been doing, but ultimately, folks, real quick, I'm a big proponent of laying your cards on the table. And if you're not on the same page, move on. You should never have to convince someone to like you.  Maybe it might be a better way of putting it. So, that's my invitation for you. Is this helping Crystal? I hope it has. Irene says, what are males point of view when dating an older woman? By the way, officially, my girlfriend is one year older than me. And I dated someone 10 years older. What's a male point of view? Every male is different. Some men want women 30 years younger, 20 years younger, 10 years younger. Some men are happy dating someone their own age or even older. You know, the bottom line is this. I'll say the bottom line in a second. Swear a little, you'll feel better. I wanna thank the YouTube follower who sent me this. My cup broke, so she sent me a new one. Thank you so much. Bottom line is this. I'm pausing for a second because I wanna describe to you what I feel in my relationship. I feel a sense of acceptance. I love that she doesn't seem to judge me when I'm in my neurosis. I feel good around this person.  All these great qualities about her. But ultimately, I just feel good being around this person. She's just being herself. She's not doing anything different than just being herself. And we just happen to click. That doesn't happen with everybody. I've gone out with, listen, in the last year, I've met some really amazing women, some very attractive women. But for whatever reason, it didn't feel like it clicked. But this one, it does. Sometimes it's just timing. Sometimes it's just an affinity towards another person. It's not something you can just look at. One size doesn't fit all. Listen, you guys know, I don't like long distance relationships. I can't stand long distance relationship. And guess what? I'm dating someone or I'm in a relationship with someone that's distance. But I will tell you, we've already had discussions. That distance is gonna be shortened in a very short period of time. Because I think if you're not, if you're gonna consider someone who lives in distance and you better have a plan to shift everything quickly because long drawn out relationships can oftentimes be, I've talked to women, oh my God, I've talked to women who said that they're in a long distance relationship for nine months and they've never met the guy or 10 months or 11, I mean, I've talked to one woman says she's been, she's been in a long distance relationship for two years and never met the guy. That's a cyber relationship. I'm talking about if you wanna build deep roots through social activities, hobbies, mutual interests, spending time with family and friends, traveling together, teamwork building skills, both in your personal and professional life, you're gonna require seeing each other on a regular basis. And if you're like me that wants a fully committed relationship then you better take that distance and shorten it really quickly or have a plan to make that happen and that's what we've done. I went off on a tangent, but the bottom line is this, why is this woman so special to me? Because I feel good just being around her. I can't pin it down to one thing. It's the essence of who she is and not just one or two things. All right, hope that helps. Thank you so much. Cheryl says, I'm sorry for your loss. No, keep the scholarship going. My son Christopher died at age 29 years ago. The pain of the broken heart hurts all the time. Cheryl, I'm sending you a big, gigantic Jonathan Bear hug. Thank you, I will do that. Okay, let's see. Kathleen, why do men feel and think when they know they're hurting someone? What do men feel and think when they know they're hurting someone? You know, it's difficult to have mixed feelings. It's difficult. I mean, to feel divided within oneself. Most of the time mixed signals, mixed feelings is a division within oneself. And so they like you, but they're blocked in some sense and they might be hurting you because of this. I think it's hard when you like someone and you're hurting them, you're feeling this confliction inside of you.  There's nothing easy about interpersonal relationships. The question becomes, why do you accept bad behavior? That would be a question to ask oneself. Why do I accept bad behavior? Why don't I stand up for myself? That's a question to ask. I recommended a lot of books to consider. So how do they feel? They feel shitty and at the same time, they don't know what to do because they don't have the tools within themselves. They don't have the resources within themselves. Oh, by the way, so I hope I answered your question, Kathleen, thank you so much. Folks, I wanna thank everybody. I got my YouTube plaque. Check it out. Passing 100,000 subscribers. I wanna thank you all for the love and support. I really appreciate your help in making this happen. Thank you so much. I was gonna hang it up here, but it's reflecting, my lighting reflects from it. So I just wanna thank everyone for helping me achieve that 100,000 mark. I'm really grateful. All right, we're gonna take one more question or two before we wrap up today. Oh, don't forget to purchase a super sticker, super chat. I'd be so grateful. All right, lock this user. All right, question, question. Paula says, age is only a number. It is the chemistry between two people. I'll help you move forward. Amen. That's how I feel. Marie says, Maria, I'm 48. I met, I met, say when, wait, I'm 48. Men, I meet, met. Say they want a relationship to lead in to doing something, but don't follow through. What's the best place to meet people? Online dating still seems to be the number one place to meet people. You can hang out in grocery stores, good luck. You can hang out at over 55 communities. That might be a place to go if you're over 55. You can do meetup groups, but online dating is still the number one place to meet people. That's how I met my gal. So that still tends to be the best place. Ask friends, get fixed up on blind dates. You might have to try 100 spokes in the wheel. Because nowadays, we no longer live in towns and villages. So it makes it much harder to really connect with someone. And by the way, online dating isn't going away. It's just more bastardized than ever before, but it's not going away. All right, we're gonna take one more question, I think. Ah, question. What, from Anya, what to do if we did not do the work before being sexually involved? Is it too late four months into it? Well, is it too late? No, have a heart-to-heart conversation with him. Find out what you, find out what you want. Find out what he wants and see if you're on the same page. By the way, schedule a call with me. That would be a great way to decide if I can help you or not in this capacity. But folks, it's time to stop being naive. You have to be more intentional right from the get-go. Is it too late? Maybe not. Does he care about you? Are you too friendly with each other? Do you do social activities, hobbies, mutual interests? Do you spend time with family and friends? Because if you're doing that, then it's not too late. But it's time to establish where you want because get busy living or get busy dying in my opinion.  You make the move. Because guys are winging it, as I said.  They're the gatekeepers of commitment.  That's my invitation for you. All right. Kathleen says, nailed it. I'm learning, which is why I'm watching. Thank you always for your perspective. Folks, is this making a difference? Is this setting in? Are you learning from this content? Please let me know. Let me know this is making a difference. All right. Miss B says, I had to tone myself down, honey. L-O-L, thank you so much. All right. Listen, I think this would be a great place to wrap up. I'm feeling a little dry mouth. Folks, let me wrap up with this. I'm crazy about the person I'm with. How did this happen? I practice the principles I teach in my private coaching to attract this person in my life. I wrote an exquisite dating profile. I had quality photographs. That was number one. I spoke my truth to her on our second phone call. I said, I didn't really like our first phone call and I shared it with her. And she listened to me and accepted it. We then built a friendship along the way before we actually met. So when we met, we weren't meeting as a date, we were meeting as friends. And there was a tremendous connection between the two of us. And that connection allowed to build something. And then we practiced radical honesty, laying our cards on the table, being intentional. So we, and we spent a significant amount of time together. I'll be candid with you folks because it's long distance. We spent 17 days out of one month together, 24 seven. That accelerated the process. Yes, we had sex, but we had sex after reading my dating vows to each other or almost at that time. I'll read my dating vows to you all. Either way, there's the dating vows in the description below. Here it is. The dating vows. We each recited this to each other. I agree to explore the process of getting to know you with the intent to declare something serious in the next three to six months. I agree to be monogamous sexually while we're having regular sex together. I agree to not actively seek to meet or date others while we're in the dating process, including taking down our dating profiles. I agree to speak up if this isn't working for me versus pulling back, ghosting or disappearing. I agree to invest regular time in this process to get to know you, which looks like social activities, hobbies, mutual interest, spending time with family and friends, traveling, teamwork, building skills. By the way, we're traveling for my birthday at the end of the month. We're going to Cancun. I'm excited about that. I'm celebrating a big birthday. We're doing the things to genuinely get to know each other because we laid the cards on the table right from the get-go because we had a strong bond with each other. We were intentional and we are self-reflective.   If this isn't going to work, that's okay. It's okay if it doesn't work out. And the more we dug the roots, dug the deeper roots of trust, the more attached we are to each other. And I mean attached in a good, healthy way, in a secure attachment way. So read all the books I recommend. Check out the link to Jonathan recommend books in the description of this video. Start doing the inner work. Put yourself out there. Don't be afraid to approach men. It's called dropping the hanky and see what happens because guess what? Look, I believe we do this over and over again. So we live our lives, we die and we do this again and again. Let's try to get it right this time. That's my invitation for you all. All right, listen, I think this will be a great place to wrap up today. Hold on a second. We have a troller here. Listen, I'm gonna wrap up this video as I always do first off. Give myself a big, gigantic, Jonathan Barrack of self love. I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay. I'm asking you to turn to someone. Pat, a teddy bear pillow and give inner them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love. And let's face it, we could all use more love in our lives. I wanna thank Power of Chee. I wanna thank Kelly. I wanna thank Victoria. I wanna thank Raising Faith Forever, RG, Linda, Miss B, Ricardo, or Ricardo, let's see, Heather, Sarah, Cheryl, Maria, Anya, Victoria. I wanna thank you all so much. Did you find value in this? Please let me know. If this is making a difference in your life, please hit that like button. Let me know, subscribe to my channel. And I'm wishing you all the best. And I hope that you attract the love that you desire in your life. Wishing you a super-duper, wonderful, fantastic day. Bye-bye now.


This is Waylon and this is how we calculate personal income tax. I'm going to use Canadian federal tax rates for 2013 Personal income tax rates are called progressive. That means that there are a number of different income brackets And for each bracket, there is a separate tax rate and the higher the bracket the higher the tax rate Hence the word progressive So let's do a sample calculation Let's take someone who is making a hundred and fifty thousand dollars of taxable income and this is for the year 2013 So imagine a layer cake with each layer being taxed at a different rate. The bottom layer here is The income from zero to forty three thousand and five hundred sixty one dollars That layer of income is taxed a federal rate of fifteen percent, which gives us six thousand five hundred thirty four dollars of tax The next layer, which brings us up to eighty seven thousand one hundred and twenty three dollars is Taxed at a rate of twenty two percent, which gives us tax of nine thousand five hundred eighty four dollars Our third layer of the cake brings us up to a hundred thirty five thousand and fifty four dollars Which is taxed at a rate of twenty six percent? Which gives us tax of twelve thousand four hundred sixty two two dollars for that layer And our last and fourth layer of our cake, which brings us up to the hundred fifty thousand dollars of taxable income is Taxed at a rate of twenty nine percent, which gives us tax of four thousand three hundred thirty four dollars So when we add up the taxes for all four of those layers together That gives us total federal tax payable before applying any tax credits of thirty two thousand nine hundred and fourteen dollars


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discussed the following question which says, find the value or values of k for which the pair of linear equations kx plus 3y equal to k minus 2 and 12x plus ky equal to k has no solution. Consider the linear equations a1x plus b1y plus c1 equal to 0 and a2x plus b2y plus c2 equal to 0 Then this pair of linear equations has no solution if we have a1 upon a2 is equal to b1 upon b2 is not equal to c1 upon c2. This is the key idea that we use for this question. Let's proceed with the solution now. Consider the given pair of linear equations which is kx plus 3y equal to k minus 2. Let this be equation 1 and 12x plus ky is equal to k. Let this be equation 2. Let's move the constant terms from the right hand side to the left hand side. So we get on rearranging the equation 1 as kx plus 3y minus k minus 2 is equal to 0. This is equation 3. Then on rearranging the equation 2 we have 12x plus ky minus k is equal to 0. Let this be equation 4. Now the pair of linear equations 3 and 4 have no solution. Therefore using the condition stated in key idea we have a1 upon a2 that is k upon 12 is equal to b1 upon b2 that is 3 upon k is not equal to c1 upon c2 which is minus of k minus 2 upon minus of k. Or you can say we have k upon 12 is equal to 3 upon k is not equal to k minus 2 upon k. Now considering this we have k upon 12 is equal to 3 upon k which means we have k square is equal to 36. This gives us k equal to plus minus square root of 36 or you can say that k is equal to plus minus 6 so that we have got the values of k as plus minus 6. This is a final answer. This completes the session. Hope you have understood the solution of this question.


November 23rd 1998 written by me. I was nine years old here. I had a math test and I got an A and 36.5 out of 40. Smart kid. I never knew I was so good in math. I got the highest mark in the class. I was about to cry. I was so happy. Well it will be a few more years until I'm 43 and I have a job but soon I'll be reading this. What will I think and what will I do when or sorry what does it say? And soon I'll be 43. I have a job but soon I'll be reading this. What I wrote when I was nine years old. And here I am doing it. Let's go a few more pages in the future. I even labeled the pages. Neurotic Scott. It's going to be the year 2000 soon. And this is 1998 this entry. Do you think Scott has dealt with anxiety for his whole life? I think so. It's 1998 and I'm thinking about it's going to be the year 2000 in two years and I write soon. And if I write November 2000 I won't remember how to put all of the zeros. Well I will probably still be alive in the year 2030. I will only be 41 years old I think. Well that's all I wanted to say Scott St. Marie. How old are you when you are going to be reading this journal? I had eyes locked into the future and isn't that what anxiety is? So this journal this was my first journal. I got this I think when I was six years old and I've been journaling almost daily but of course there's some days, weeks, months that go by where I haven't journaled and I want to talk to you about things that I've learned from 25 years of journaling that may calm you, that may surprise you, that may bring some clarity into your days and weeks to come. So I had this all in writing. I have journals which are from every trip I go on, every backpacking trip, wherever I always get a new book and I journal through that just about the trip every single night and in the mornings and I have a journal here that I started this one started in 2012 when I put it all on the computer and this goes until this document is 93 pages all single spaced and it is a lot of entries. So in 2008 when I was diagnosed with depression you read that journal versus my journals before that versus my journaling after that and what you begin to see is every single thing my friends changes and passes. You know the classic quote this too shall pass it's so lame but it's so true. I got a I got a let's see this was in February 2nd 2012 a big episode of depression. Let's see here I am depressed I can't eat or sleep 10 pounds left me in the past weeks and I see no hope for the future. I feel utterly alone and heartbroken. I would trade my mental pain for any kind of physical pain in a heartbeat. I see people but not the way I want to see them. I wonder how they see me and how much pain I'm in in this moment when I walk by them. I want to tell them how I feel and that they're lucky to be feeling just okay or fine goes on and on and when I read this I look back at Scott and I'm like oh if only you knew if only I could grab you put you aside and be like it's gonna be alright buddy and we find ourselves in these pits in these ruts in these trenches we can't find a way out look to older people if you are lucky enough to have a dad or a mom or someone you can speak to that's been through things they will admit that in the moment yeah you don't see a way out but it will pass and it will change and things change without our permission to things change just by us living and going through day to day you know you just live with shoes on and before you know it the laces are torn up the souls are broken you didn't you just live day to day but they change right we were not doing anything but the weather just changes things just change and the meaning we put towards things changes because we change so the same thing can happen to you I can go through a terrible depression now and yeah it'll still be terrible but it's gonna be different than other ones that have experienced and it's gonna mean something different than it used to and I've gained this perspective over 25 years and I can look back every day and say man was I in pain there man did that suck man was my heart broken there was I lost there I couldn't find a way out there and oh I journaled four months later and I was laughing isn't that interesting the end of the world was never the end and that's number one everything everything passes and changes and number two when I look at these journal entries it's me writing out what happened and what I think about things and what I think of myself and what I thought of what happened and what will happen and what you realize is the mind the thinking mind is responsible for so much suffering in my personal experience the mind and thought is responsible for so much of the pain that I went through like now even in pain like I got a headache right now I get it I usually have headaches through the day and we're working on it we're really working on it guys and people are just like just drink more water have you tried vitamin B1 or B6 I'm like wow I'm past that but thanks for trying now if I look back and I'm looking at all these situations that I'm going through and even in pain what makes the pain worse is thinking that it's gonna last forever that you're you're stuck only if you stop and this is where faith really comes in and this is where proof from the past does help the thoughts of the future where it's not gonna last forever and I don't need to think that it will and I don't need to put myself in this pit of worry because that is literally going to do nothing for me and worrying about this is making me suffer and making myself suffer is not something that is kind towards me why am I being so unkind to myself about this thing why am I hurting myself deliberately by creating all of these scenarios and thoughts and overthinking this and you're worried about this thing so you Google it and you get into it and you watch YouTube videos about it and you don't let it go what are you doing to yourself in those moments today still full of crying sadness no appetite I can't even leave my room I can't scroll down even more let's open up like 2016 for you all you know I just have to tell you that everything passes no matter how hard no matter what state you're in right now it will change it will change and if you can relax the mind a little bit and not dive into scenario building and not plan too far into the future because things will so change along the way you know thinking about yourself like me as a kid what am I going to be like when I'm 43 oh Scott I'm not even there yet man I'm ten years away so if you cannot think ten years ahead even five years right now if you're going through a tough time the most you can think of is just getting through the day and if that if that three months into the future if that 90 days but thinking a year from now thinking five years from now thinking eight months from now come on back be kind to yourself and just focus on what you got to do now okay now if I go through the journals once again over 25 years number three is people what did I write down for you all people are the most important beings on earth and create the best memories I think some will argue with this about beings in our you know are we any better than animals beautiful deer and kangaroo and the insects and vegans may have a different view of this and that's totally cool in my experience in journaling when I have a really vivid memory of a place when I did my traveling the best memories I had was when I experienced something with somebody else those really stick with me because a moment was shared a moment was really shared and although they are experiencing maybe something different and and felt different things when you saw that certain thing or that happened around you or happened to you you were still in that space together and for some reason by feeling their energy and being with them and knowing that you're creating something that they'll never forget you'll never forget somehow it's it's embodied a little deeper and when I look at you know I don't have them because they're all you're all in in print they're in my closet in my parents house I I read them and I'm like wow did I have a good time when I wasn't by myself when I was part of a team when I was traveling with a group of people when we went to this event together those are the memories that really stick with you and what's unfortunate as we get older people and what I'm finding now to be honest everyone if you're on my age and 34 is people are creating their own lives you know you find your spouse and you go have children you get a house and a lot of people I know are then moving to the suburbs out of the city and there's distance and they're creating memories there but they're with people but the memories that I've really really had just soaked into my very fibers of my being are ones where I'm with like a big group like a community like a lot of people around and developing those relationships like if it were up to me I'd live I'd probably start some kind of cult and have a bunch of people living in some reserve some some community like it was those memories really stick with me so people the most important beings on earth and they create the most suffering you know that heartbreak that abandonment we all feel the loss that we feel when loved ones pass away human beings hurt us the most yet they bring us the most joy can't live with them can't live without them now a big one here number four is I worried for absolutely no reason because the thing I worried about never happened countless examples countless examples of all of these years of journaling where I'm my mind is just set on something bad that's about to happen what if I run into this person what if I feel this way forever it's it's just like the worry just in these pages I'm trying to find something for you you know and and it's interesting because in my journaling let's even from this 2012 I'm even rejecting that I'm having worry that I don't even want to admit that I'm really really concerned about something I always have tried to flip it to the positive just flip it just flip it like whatever I have to do to be happy that's all that matters I think about this I think about this but I'm not sure if I can control it all like this is what March 2013 and I'm just trying to talk my way out of a feeling even if it is worry what happens if you're worried if you actually admit that I'm worried about this thing let's just admit it even out loud even to yourself I'm really worrying that this is going to happen okay I'm really worrying that that's going to happen all right well that's what's going on right now for me and as you admit it and as you accept it and as you don't compromise with it but just let it be you can sometimes the layer of worry like it was under this kind of black curtain and veil and somehow you just kind of lift it and see what it actually is and be like how foolish is that I can't believe I was worrying about that and when you see the proof in all this journaling yeah man most of it never happened it's it's absolutely fascinating and the last thing I want to say number five is writing really helps that's one thing I learned writing out all of these things that I was going through the good the bad like everything that went on writing was such a tool it was such a tool to express yourself and to put actual things in writing because they just become cyclical in the mind and you have these ideas but you can't organize them they're like it's in a web almost but so disorganized it's cluttered it's not even stacked up and when you can put them on paper line by line bullet points paragraphs put a beautifully structured sentence and exactly what you're doing exactly how you're feeling exactly maybe why and what you can do about it it's like boom boom boom boom it's just in a list it's ready for you it's just ready for you and look I just scrolled down to a random October 5th 2013 10 33 a.m. I'm putting the times so it's been a while since I wrote the main thing I have to write about is this trip to Europe just thinking about it right now is a serious mind trip when I think about it and put myself back into one of the places I went to just by thinking about it I trip out I went there all alone I had a knapsack and that's it I'm so proud of myself for doing it too the amount of memories I've stored up is just unbelievable and the amount of people I've met just unbelievable there you go it's it's so much about the people wow and I wonder if you look back at your journals or you start one now and you look at it when you're 40 when you're 43 because I'll do that I'll read this baby when I'm 43 just to please you past child Scott I wonder what you'll think because you're not going to be the same person and you're going to learn so many things along the way and you're going to want to go back and change things you're going to be like I could have dealt with that so much better I know so many more tools and I have so many tricks now and I have so many different people that can help me now and so many different hobbies and things that I can escape into and you're going to find that and that means that you've grown and by me reading all of these things and how I didn't deal with things very well and then I thought very differently that's such a sign of growth because if I read these things and I'm like yeah I think the exact same way now and yeah I'm worried about the exact same things now and you know yeah I have the same opinion about that and that and that and this political thing and that and that it's like have I really changed have I really grown and the proof is right here so if you're a journal or is that a word if you want to comment on YouTube of maybe just one thing or five things that you've really learned about your experience journaling and how it's helped you how is how it hasn't helped you I'd be really curious to read those thanks a lot for joining everybody my name is Scott St. Marie this was done this video is done Monday February 26th because and it's 11 48 a.m. so let's see when I upload this hopefully it takes me just an hour it'll upload I'll edit some bullshit and then it'll be up because I procrastinated and here we are putting out a garbage video that wasn't that bad was it I've always wanted to do this video but procrastinate no more sometimes you I just upload something and it's like this is good enough it's not perfect it's not great but it's good enough it's good enough


If you take a look at the perspective of education and digitalization it's always a question of if you address the few or the many. And yesterday for those that were here in the session at 12.15 we had a very nice presentation of the Austrian solution related to this sort of big question. And when I'm talking about the Austrian solution this is really the Austrian solution. So it's not a part of it with a small network trying to do something but structures that have been established over the years. Some things work out better than others. But reaching from actually primary level to upper secondary level of all schools. We do have corporations with universities as well but still focused on the school system and all the way to the federal ministry of education. Which means that we are now at a situation where we have the connection to both teachers that use digital aspects and everyday classroom work as well as getting funding for the development and maintenance of our very central platform which has the name individual. Which means that actually everything we are talking about today in my presentation relates on one behalf on this network structure but it comes down to and I can give you the executive summary right away of the big, big, big moodle installations that are hosted centrally by the federal ministry of education that are available to everyone. And the part I'm in charge of started 2016 and has the name e-education. And e-education is a network of schools that have the emphasis on digitalization in general. We started out 2016 with 300 schools. By now we have around 4000 schools that participate in this network. And taking the size of Austrian to account we have a total of 6000 schools. It's quite a big number that we can reach with the idea of digitalization and all aspects that relate to this. I'm going to tell you a little bit about this network but first I also think that you will not be able to read everything but I can give you the main top-down impression. The federal ministry of education has established work groups that address different levels within the school system. One is that the way the school system works is we have local educational authorities in each state and these local authorities are actually in charge of state schools. In addition we have the idea that these local authorities and these states we have nine states in Austria are in charge of primary and lower secondary education. And we have other school types. One is academic school. The other school types are related to upper secondary education. That's where the federal ministry is in charge of. And so for example just taking a consideration of how the problems sometimes are in Germany where they have 16 states and they're so much bigger for them it's a little more difficult to find a central strategy. But Austria being so small this is still possible. And then if we have this federalistic case of different obligations that the states have related to schools as well as the federal ministry we sort of all work together. And for example one practical example is our centralized model platform which means that vocational schools, primary schools, lower and upper secondary schools and all the way to universities can access the same system. So in addition to that we have one thing which is maybe a little untypical or typical to Austria let's say that is that we have also nine universities of education. And these nine universities of education also want being in each state. We have a few more, we have some private universities as well. They're actually in charge of either basic or further teacher education. And then we also have the virtual university of education which has done the digital agenda over the past years where they tried to promote e-learning related things, digitalization in general. But still this whole network, this is the structure in Austria and e-education, this teacher network relates to all these fields. Which means that we have actually a great number of persons that work. You see here in the lower right hand corner that there are 60 state coordinators which means that they're actually provisioned from the federal ministry with sort of money or hours that they get for their support of schools. And that starts with primary schools up to upper secondary schools and depending on the size of each state there's a different number of state coordinators. But we then coordinate them with a team, a core team of about additional 15 persons so it's a total of about 80 persons that try to improve digitalization in general for schools throughout Austria. We got the new numbers just recently because I was talking about two-thirds of schools participating in this network. Actually it's 78% of all teachers and students in Austrian schools that work in e-education schools blind to this network. What we do is we have two big conferences with around 300 persons per year. One is in March, one is in November and we also try to emphasize on using didactical tools, digital tools in classroom situations reflect upon them and try to sort of take the best out of this. And it's a very good way of connecting all those people that are engaged just in this particular part of digitalization and exchange their thoughts on that. The last conference we had of course was related to AI. Let me give you this idea of the principles of this network and actually this is our sort of solution we found that we need to tackle. We have this like a pillar concept, these different perspectives within each organization. So the first column would be digital competencies which means at first all the people that want to use any software in classroom situations for teaching they have to have a certain basic fundament of digital competencies. So we try to emphasize our educational programs on establishing this. The first step is try to get the teachers to become more digital in general. This then means, then we are moving to the second pillar, that we can address the question of how does this transfer to classroom situations. How are the tools being used? Which tools are being used? This is where Moodle kicks in for example. Still our perspective is not to look towards specific situations in schools but in general to enable and this means that we have to have a broader perspective towards the whole idea. You know probably that Moodle of course is a very big system but sometimes it can become overwhelming for an individual. So that's where we focus on. We have apps for example that focus just on the reduction in the front end of Moodle so the first steps are easy even in the classroom situations. And then the third pillar which is actually a very important one that's the organizational development. How does the organization you teach in provide services to you as a teacher to be able to do this? And this is a big perspective because of course there are the aspects of infrastructure for example but still what's the main idea? What are the perspectives of the organization related to learning? What's the philosophy? How much freedom does a teacher have in maybe transporting certain ideas of a curricula? And we have enabled a set of tools where schools can relate to that self-assess and then see which are the necessary next steps to take so they will be able to develop something like a digitalization concept and then based upon this develop the needs for the education that is needed for their staff. To provide you with some numbers and this is also a key point of our basic idea of e-education is that we have this sort of gamification idea and actually it has worked out pretty well since 2016. And the gamification idea is the following. We have a concept of three levels. We have so-called member schools, expert schools and expert plus schools. So if a school decides to become a member of our network of the e-education network which is totally free of charge because it is a project run by the Federal Ministry of Education they just have to fill in an online form. And that was it. So then they're a member of this network and this just means giving the message yes we want to try to go on the digital path. And then our gamification idea kicks in. You see this different types of batch categories up there and these are batches that are actually not given to a person but to an organization. So a school working on different digital ideas they document what they're doing and earn points by doing this and this is where the network of our 60 state coordinators kicks in because they reflect, give feedback, acknowledge, say yes this is okay or this is not okay. And they can even decline activities that schools turned in if it's not too much pedagogy or digitalization involved. And by this at a certain stage the schools become expert schools and from this moment on they're able to access the centralized budgets which is sort of a neat idea. We have a budget of half a million euros per year that we can use for further teacher education. And once you have this expert status and you have acquired it during a school year you have it kept for the next year as well and then if you would stop documenting you would drop down to member status again. So we have a shift between member schools and expert schools all the time. The expert plus schools, those are the ones that are the highlights. They have a digitalization concept. They have a very big focus on digitalization. Often they contribute teachers to our further educational programs because they tell about technologies and as I mentioned before if you want to broaden the perspective then of course it's not only open source. We have other players, we have Google, we have Microsoft and we want to provide them with easy entry points in the frameworks that they are using. However, keeping in mind that there is a very much more useful system in the background called Moodle. And so we let them work in their context but then open it up from step to step. And this is where at any time any teacher can switch over from one product so to speak to the other. The other things that we have also is of course e-learning scenarios I will come to that a little further down the road and those proposed activities that these are actually the activities that the schools document. And now we have almost 100,000 activities that have been documented in the past years related to different fields in our badges system. And so that's actually the measure of all things. You come from member to expert schools and what our state coordinators have is actually a statistical dashboard that shows what are the expert schools in my state, where is development needed and they try to support these schools on this agenda. As I mentioned, we have the self-assessment tool in place for schools so they can get a basic idea of what digital competence means in general and we heard it yesterday, there are EU frameworks like DitchComp, DitchComp edu or DitchComp org that we use as base of the self-assessment. So everyone knows about digitalization in general. If a school logs in, what they can see is the different tools that are provided for them for this reflection part for creating digitalization concepts but also to document the activities or at the very bottom you would see the individual registration which means if a school then just clicks this button automatically a course area is created for the school as was presented yesterday where schools then immediately have access to our big moodle installations just like one click. So first they become member with the education and then they are automatically sent to this other system as well. Here's a perspective or a view of the statistics that are produced and depending on the role system and the role you have in the system you get different forms of aggregation of these statistics but this is then base of your work to see where improvements can be done. And now just to give you an idea of what kind of activities there exist we have our main batch categories but within these categories we have these activities like using a learning management system school-wide that gives you 10 points that you can have if you prove that you have this in place or that you use it and depending on the school size you then get a point limit you have to reach and after you have reached this then you come to this expert status and so at any time you can even then download a certificate which shows you okay now I have become expert school and this is also a little bit of a marketing instrument for schools to show that they're on their technical way. Another thing that we have in place which is kind of neat is actually that we have all our curricula from all subjects from primary to upper secondary in one system which is competency based. I will show it to you right away it's actually a software it's called Comet it's like competence grid editing tool which enables you to develop competence grids and that's very important to understand what the difference is between competences and competence grids because competence grids also introduce a level of complexity like taking the presentation from yesterday with language skills you start with A1 to C2 you can have this applied to virtually any subject and by doing this we put learning objects to these competence fields for teachers to use and so they know in classroom situations immediately okay I can actually select what is my subject at which level do I want to teach and have this material accessible right away for example for digitalization we have about 500 examples just related to digitalization in different subjects called DigiComp and they're freely available and they're all Moodle courses like one learning object is equal out to one Moodle course of course keeping in mind that not everyone is using a Moodle it is open to that degree that we cannot use Moodle activities within this openness unless you log in but still we have the metadata provided and the learning objects and actually the way it works is then the description of the competence and then the examples the learning objects are directly related to this and can be called up and then you see already here if you click on one of those links you're in a Moodle course which is openly available the Moodle installation is configured this way that it's open for everyone and we call this concept Etapas and actually the founder of this idea is Robert and me many years ago because we both love tapas and the idea of having a didactical scenario it's not so much about the content but it's more about telling a teacher on how to use this content in a specific context in his classroom work so this has certain restrictions it has to be OER it has to be something that can be done within one hour of teaching so maybe even a teacher that kicks in for a different teacher that could go on this website and immediately tell the students go ahead and work on this example and then would also get the solution if the teacher works with Moodle all Moodle possibilities kick in if a teacher works with a different platform we even have onboarding from teams to Moodle so if someone uses Microsoft and uses Microsoft Teams they would have an app that transports all these Etapas into the Microsoft course and actually hidden behind that there's a transfer of all the students that are synchronized from Microsoft Teams to our central Moodle installation and the data is stored in Moodle and it works perfectly and the teacher doesn't care where the data is saved they just want to onboard in their system that they're used to work with the big idea of course is Teams is not a learning management system it's something that you can onboard or you have a communication possibility but there's more and what Robert showed yesterday was actually now the very big idea which is called Bildungsportal and this is this very central mechanism it's one big portal which is one big Moodle installation that connects all e-government applications to the educational context so you see these different platforms the first one is e-education that's our teaching network that we support they can log in and have all the data that is from the single sign mechanism available within that platform which relates to school development and digital competencies individual being the Moodle installation for technologies savvy teachers automatically has all the accounts made available edutik, that's the next project that we're just tackling is this going to be where the content is? Yes, what it's based on it will be a Moodle repository function to transport all the data to all different platforms and all the content that is related to this being used in school we have an edtech integration so edtech companies can also apply to become part of this Bildungsportal and then there are different levels of integration of their software so they can become part of this system in general and then we have PH online that's the further education qualification platform used by the universities of education where also teachers log in and have all these resources available and so now saying this we have actually now four Moodles in plan working together we have the government Moodle where all teachers, students and parents can log in I talked to Martin a couple of days ago and I said hey we're heading towards the biggest Moodle installation worldwide be careful in China they have an open university they have 3.5 million and I said we're going towards 3 million but of course it's about numbers and don't take it too seriously we can put it into a different context compared to all the people that live in Austria the population is 9 million we can reach with this first platform one third of the whole population coming down to open university would be 0.002 for 1.4 billion Chinese but it's just about numbers then of course individual as we mentioned yesterday that's the platform that we use for didactics mostly then Moodle as material repository I just mentioned that and now we also have this idea the name is not going to be individual light but the idea is that if you have a teacher that you want to onboard and you have everything done in the background you automatically create courses and so on this could be a Moodle installation where this is kept so it's lightweight and easy to access for everyone and nobody knows right away that they're working with Moodle we'll do this subversively one step after the other that's a basic idea but just to give you the number it's a big thing and actually the talks that we had in the past few days was especially from Sandra, Julia and also Robert the installations that have a similar size and issues that we have related to that so it was very good that we are present here it was perfect and that's just a new face of the individual platform that we just updated to a 4.2 version and now taking this graphic into consideration I just want to point out some points so moving from the left side of e-education where we emphasize on transporting and disseminating all this knowledge to teachers we have all the learning objects which are available on the site but they're connected with this Comet tool so they have a specific pedagogical context to curricula to each subject and we have this synchronized with which is this material repository and synchronized with the individual platform for those that might know the ExabiSeries that's a product series that we initiated many years ago it's a portfolio work and competency-based education as plugins for Moodle we use them to get the data into Moodle to get the learning objects into Moodle and as you see down here it does not matter to us even MS teams that you start with you connect to this whole complex and all these interfaces have been atomized so far and there are two apps that we have developed together with Germany Baden-Württemberg State of Baden-Württemberg in the past few years where they concentrate on using competence grids to develop individualized learning paths the main idea would be first take a test as a student and then you find the position in a competence grid depending on the level of your knowledge and then once you have this position defined in this competence grid the system then shows you what are the next steps to take to reach your goal and that's what the project is about the comet tool actually is something which is outside of Moodle it's also based on open source it's a content management system called typo3 open source a big CMS around Europe enterprise based and we do the creation of the competence grids there so many can participate and this is platform independent but then this is synchronized to Moodle and even from our block we have a script that then synchronizes this to the Moodle competencies back and forth so it's pretty much working well on this behalf actually the very bottom two apps this is where pedagogy or didactics kick in because this is when you have to think about how can you be supportive to a learner using digital technology three more minutes to go and I think that's time for the questions thank you hello Bildung's portal is based on MoodleNet somehow on Moodle it's hosted centrally at the federal ministry of education thank you any other questions Martin oh my god that's not technical what's the what's the support from the government of like for this and teachers and associations of teachers and so on is there a general good feeling politically? yes and we have a very big advantage for example Robert he was the one that initiated individual centrally I took his job over and everything was almost finished and he moved to the federal ministry of education so now we have this starting with funding all the way to classroom work and of course to be realistic our government still pays licensing fees to Microsoft but in addition they have a budget for open source development which is great and giving half a million euros per year for further teacher education that's fine as well and then in addition we have those state coordinators that get money for their work and for the eTapas I forgot to mention those OER learning objects they're also financed so you get around 250 euros if you produce one of those eTapas so that's incentive for a teacher to do this and I've always loved your work around competencies for many years and the modules and things you've written would still love to see that getting to course somehow it's another big discussion but if you haven't seen his what's it called again? Exibis competencies Exibis check it out it's on the plugins database Thank you and Martin thank you so much that you participated we have a special relationship because we both love your platform and I think I was one of the few persons in your life that cost you a sleepless night Remember Moodle Mood Miami That's a very good story for another time Thank you very much Cigar


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