Deeper than content

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

Standards 0 Convenience 1

Standards will lose to convenience unless L&D is tied to something more operationally important. When L&D standards compete with operational pressure, operational pressure wins almost every time. Not because people don’t care about quality, but because the consequence of cutting a corner on learning is diffuse, delayed, and rarely attributed back to the decision. The… Read More Standards 0 Convenience 1

Buying badly

I published a post on personalisation this week, and the same day, I received a pre-market questionnaire for a procurement process. I found myself writing the same thing in a different register. Procuring a platform is not the same as building capability. Sharon Green made the point well in the comments: the skill of navigating… Read More Buying badly

Push a button

The effort doesn’t disappear. – it moves. We’ve spent years pressing a button and expecting a result. AI tools have changed that deal; many of them get it wrong the first time, so you prompt again, refine again, check again. That’s still work but it’s just different. Before you adopt a tool because someone told… Read More Push a button

Sound on

You need your sound on for this post. That was me last week. suffering with a basic cold. I had narration to record and online sessions to run. I know I could have used an AI tool to clone my voice and generate the narration for me, but it would not have sounded as good.… Read More Sound on