I delivered a session at Learning Live this week which (I hope) wasn’t the traditional curate’s egg – partly bad with some redeeming features. It seemed well received based on the Twitter backchannel and kind people I respect said very humbling things to me. I wanted the session to be different and used a 20/20/20 split;… Read More Curate’s Egg
This is a simultaneous blog post, published in tandem with a post by Rachel Burnham. I’ve been involved in a few conversations recently talking through the approach that I’m taking and a common question that people are asking me is about the use of the word informal. My definition is to place the learning that… Read More But what is informal learning?
I’m regularly surprised by the extent of the connections we make. I was talking to someone at a gig my son was playing recently. They knew the band, knew who was who, what they played and other insights, all on the basis of Facebook and Twitter posts. It has become ubiquitous to use social… Read More Take the money or open the box
A few weeks ago I wrote about going on a course that I didn’t think was a valuable use of my time. The post described a course that was put together to make me productive using technology. In the post, and discussion afterwards, I was concerned that we still deliver this type of training because… Read More Of course not?
I’ve had a mental, wicked, and completely over the top couple of weeks. My son’s football team has started their new season and as well as ordering kit, new match balls and registering players, I’ve had welfare oficer meetings and league meetings to attend. In between I’ve taken some time to collect my thoughts about… Read More Rearviewmirror