Monthly Archives: April 2012

Trust in learning: where do we turn to when we need reliable information?

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

The first place i turn to for information is usually my mobile phone: i’ve adopted the habits of an impulsive Googler with great enthusiasm. Once the results come up, i often go to Wikipedia for an overview, turning to professional … Continue reading →

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Words about Learning: intent

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

Sometimes we have an idea: let’s do something better! The idea is good. It gives us intent. But how do we actually do the thing better? What, when push comes to shove, are we not doing well already? Aspiration is … Continue reading →

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The sense of community and the social: using virtual spaces for learning.

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

Three weeks ago i started the Learning Forum as a place to develop new ideas and collaborate in discussions around learning. We have nearly eighty people so far with discussion ranging across a number of topics around ‘learning‘. The recent … Continue reading →

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Incrementally better: why two heads in your team are better than one, but six may be best of all.

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

I’m rather lucky in that my favourite pub is just down the road. It’s tiny, barely a dozen tables and stools clustered around them, with a range of real ales and good whiskey. It also runs a particularly challenging pub … 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 →

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Breaking the rules: what we can learn from the thrill of the forbidden.

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

Roger Deakin wrote a beautiful book called Waterlog, his account of wild swimming through moats, rivers, lakes and tarns around the English landscape. His viewpoint, with his nose ploughing a furrow through the pondweed and tadpoles, viewing nature from a … Continue reading →

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Why knowledge is no longer enough: learning and living in the new world.

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

This last couple of weeks, i’ve been thinking around the idea that knowing things is no longer enough. Instead, we have to know how to use that knowledge, to bring it to bear in different situations, to synthesise multiple channels … Continue reading →

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“Nothing ever changes”… why learning is all about change.

Posted on April 19, 2012 by

I bumped into an old colleague this morning. After a quick chat and catch up we parted, with him shouting “nothing ever changes” as he wandered off, a statement that worried me no end. Because everything changes: learning is about … Continue reading →

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Unimaginably large numbers: why we have to keep learning relevant to what we know.

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

Do you know how many people died in the Second World War? I was reading a book about Yuri Gagarin last night, when i read something that stopped me in my tracks. I literally had to stop reading and think … Continue reading →

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Learning in museums: how collections ground us in our history.

Posted on April 17, 2012 by

Museums are the collective memory of society: they are the dusty attic of a nation. They are places to visit with granny on a summer holiday, a place to carry out school projects, a place to understand how things were … Continue reading →

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