I was told I needed to learn my times tables when I was six because I wouldn’t have a calculator with me all the time. I was told to learn to remember essential telephone numbers because I wouldn’t be able to get to them immediately if I needed them. I was told to learn some… Read More Calculated risk
I made a mistake while recording last week. I was making a new episode of the Women Talking About Learning podcast and using a new portable recorder. I’ve practiced with it a dozen times with the wind cover on and had taken it off to store the recorder. I started recording with the wind cover… Read More Mistakes
Learning often wants to demonstrate its effectiveness through learning data – the numbers, amounts, times, completions, reflections, assessments and scores. The business wants to understand learning’s effectiveness through performance data – the speed to competence, error rates, compliance, controls, customer satisfaction, business success. If you want to be taken seriously, you MUST be able to… Read More Evaluation gaps
One of the benefits of writing a blog post every day is I’m able to step back and look at the whole with more depth. I noticed my writing seems to focus on specific themes over the course of a few days, weeks, or months, and then move on. They’re reflections of my thought process… Read More Themes
I saw the following on Twitter the other day. A teacher had asked his 6-7 year old cohort for advice and one child came back with this: “I like to learn but I also like to keep my brain empty” Willow, aged 6 Is there any better advice for learning professionals?
Lost and Desperate 