I read an interesting post last week from Scott McLeod about deeper learning in schools. The useful part for workplace learning isn’t in the education terminology but as a warning. Schools often absorb new practice without changing much – the old model stays intact and low-level work gets called high-level work. Workplace learning does this… Read More Deeper than content
TIME’s report on Oracle’s mass layoffs is a warning sign. The story is not just “AI replaces workers” – it is more specific than that. Employees were reportedly asked to document workflows and train internal AI systems. Some were then laid off, losing income, healthcare security, visa stability, and unvested stock. That changes the ethics… Read More Expertise Extraction
Here’s the third of three posts about the Learning Technologies Conference and Exhibition last week. This post focuses on the second session I chaired for Kenny Temowo. You already have a learning culture, but it’s probably not the one you designed. Kenny opened the last session of the event with a line that really resonated;… Read More Cultural change
Here’s the second of three posts about last week’s Learning Technologies Exhibition and Conference and it’s a reflection on Markus Bernhardt’s session that I was lucky enough to chair. Agentwashing was the word Markus Bernhardt used to open his session – not AI agents but agentwashing. His argument was quite precise. Most organisations cannot tell… Read More Agentwashing
Lori Niles-Hofmann showed a slide at Learning Technologies last week that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. The lion of Gripsholm was preserved by a Swedish taxidermist in 1783. He’d never seen a lion so worked from a flag. The result looks like a lion; it has fur, four legs, and a mane.… Read More Lion Problems
Lost and Desperate 