Category Archives: Mistakes

The Privacy Jigsaw: can you keep a secret?

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

I am active online: i participate in many social spaces and learning communities. I maintain a number of personal and professional personas, but across them all i tend towards caution when it comes to sensitive data. I tend to trust … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Agile, Authority, Clarity, Collaboration, Community, Consumption, Culture, Disclosure, Forbidden, Freedom, Integrity, Learning Culture, Legacy, Mistakes, Ownership, Privacy, Social Learning, Social Media | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Social legacy: Paris Brown and the right to learn

Posted on April 10, 2013 by

This isn’t a post about politics and policing: it’s a post about learning and the legacy of social media. The right to learn and the right to grow up. There’s been a scandal brewing in the UK over the last … Continue reading →

Posted in Age, Authority, Brand, Culture, Disclosure, Diversity, Equality, Experience, Facebook, Freedom, Information, Integrity, Leadership, Learning, Learning Culture, Legacy, Mistakes, News, Personal Brand, Social Learning, Social Media, Tone of Voice, Truth, Twitter, Understanding | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Playing with learning: a very sociable model

Posted on April 4, 2013 by

A conversation on Twitter this morning has made me think about play. Playing is all about learning: it can be a solitary activity or done with friends, it can be done in dedicated ‘formally‘ defined play spaces, or it can … Continue reading →

Posted in Assessment, Collaboration, Community, Context, Curiosity, Demonstration, Discovery, Education, Effectiveness, Everyday Reality, Experience, Exploration, Footsteps, Formal Spaces, Graffiti, Informal Spaces, Knowledge, Learning, Learning Design, Learning Journey, Learning Methodology, Mistakes, Play, Reflection, Social Capital, Social Learning | Tagged , , , , , | 3 Comments

The skyline of London: to learn is to change

Posted on December 19, 2012 by

Walking through the city this morning, i was looking at the skyline: some familiar shapes, famous building, standing iconic like St Pauls in the morning light. Others, new, being shaped as we speak, thrusting up into the air, taller, brighter, … Continue reading →

Posted in Adaptability, Agile, Change, Choices, Community, Culture, Environment, Heritage, Innovation, Learning, Learning Journey, Legacy, Mistakes, Permanence, Social Capital, Social Learning | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Mobile Learning: The gulf between learning strategy and learning reality

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

It’s all about perspective. When you sit within a problem, the walls loom up around you, whilst from the outside, the problem can seem quite small, easily surmountable. Perspective is hard to find and harder to retain, so any strategy … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, Change, E-Learning, Failure, Formal Spaces, Learning, M-Learning, Mindset, Mistakes, Mobile Apps, Mobile Learning | Tagged , , , , , | 6 Comments

Learning from others: inspiration and the power of biography

Posted on July 5, 2012 by

It’s great to make mistakes and learn from them, but surely better to learn from the mistakes of others. This is part of the enduring power of biographies: to understand how people have achieved things in their lives and to … Continue reading →

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There’s no such thing as bad learning

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

My first bike was red. It wasn’t new, my brother had ridden it first, bequeathing it to me with a fair dusting of scratches and nicks, the saddle, i recall, being somewhat scuffed. It had cream tyres, which were cool, … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure, Challenge, Depression, Empathy, Failure, Learning, Mistakes | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Spelling, and grammar. Why it’s increasingly hard to get away with it.

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

People worry that spelling and grammar are going out of the window. In a world of txt speak, in a world where ‘ask’ mysteriously becomes ‘aks’ (or ax?), in a world where even my middle class, podiatrist friend accidentally called … Continue reading →

Posted in Attention to Detail, Grammar, Jargon, Mistakes, Spelling, Standardisation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Surviving feedback. Learning from what we do wrong.

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

Nobody gets everything right all of the time. We all make mistakes, misunderstand things, explain things poorly or simply forget to do things. We all experience breakdowns in communication or make wild assumptions that everything is right when in fact, … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Challenge, Communication, Feedback, Learning, Mentoring, Mistakes, Performance, Reflection | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Testing our limits. Why making small mistakes is essential to learning.

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

Yesterday a friend was driving me to a meeting. I hope she will forgive me for using her driving as an example of how we learn. This particular friend has just learnt to drive (at the age of 25. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Assessment, Driving, E-Learning, Learning, Mistakes | Tagged , , , , , | 4 Comments