Category Archives: Forbidden

The Privacy Jigsaw: can you keep a secret?

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

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Learning technology: are we using it right?

Technology can be a great enabler for learning, but it’s not guaranteed to make us learn better. Used correctly, it can enhance, equalise and facilitate learning, used poorly it simply commands and controls. It’s both an infrastructure and a mindset, … Continue reading

Posted in Accessibility, Agile, Authority, Broadcast, Control, Diagnostic tools, Engagement, Experience, Forbidden, Interactive, Knowledge, Learning, Learning Journey, Learning Technology, Meaning, Media, Mindset, Mobile Learning, Narrative, Personal Learning Network, Publishing, Push Notifications, Scaffolding, Sharing, Social Learning, Stories | Tagged , , , , , , , | 18 Comments

Strength in numbers: the power of a learning community

This focus of this week has been learning culture: how it’s created, who owns and influences it and what the balance is of informal and formal learning within it. The ‘Amsterdam Diary’ series of four articles let me explore this … Continue reading

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Amsterdam Diary – Day 4: Forbidden learning – what they never wanted you to know

All week i’ve been exploring learning culture from Amsterdam. We started by looking into how the culture is created and went on to run a global popup learning session asking questions about the role of leadership and the individual, as … Continue reading

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