Tag Archives: Context

Learning Science Crash Course – Part 2 – Factors That Affect Learning

Continuing to #WorkOutLoud to share parts of our writing for the Learning Science book. In that work, our ‘landscape of Learning Science’ has five major areas. Part 1 covered how people learn. Part 2 examines the states, characteristics, and contexts … Continue reading

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The Time Till Failure

Sometimes failure is easy to perceive: a crash, shock or fracture. But if we focus our vision on the specific point of failure, we may miss the opportunity to learn from the run up, and legacy of it. Indeed, in … Continue reading

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Setting Context

I’m working on the context of my work as part of the doctorate this week. I was reminded of my time as an archaeologist, where i was taught that everything is about context. There is more to archaeology than simply … Continue reading

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#WorkingOutLoud on the Social Age

In parallel with my work on the doctorate this year i am building on the manuscript for a core book on the ‘Context of the Social Age’. It will be based around a dozen key shifts that we see (such … Continue reading

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Learning Science Guidebook #4 – Nested Contexts

This post is part of a series where i am sharing work from my collaboration with Sae on the Learning Science Guidebook. It’s early stage #WorkingOutLoud, and should be taken as such. Today we consider ‘nested contexts’ and how they … Continue reading

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Your Journey – a Step or a Space?

We sometimes present learning as a narrative: a journey with a starting point (here, in our ignorance) and an end point (over there, basking in enlightenment). We measure ‘progress’ and seek insight by staring into the distance. Perhaps our own … Continue reading

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Organisations That Experiment

This is very early stage #WorkingOutLoud as i conduct the initial research for the book on ‘Experimenting Organisations’. So early stage that it may barely be worth reading, but i am finding it useful to rapidly iterate the structure of … Continue reading

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Evolution of Context

Context is not static: held rather in a dynamic interaction with the things that flow through it. Stories are no exception to this: both formal stories, and the tacit and tribal folklore of the Organisation, these things flow through context, … Continue reading

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#WorkingOutLoud on the Learning Map 2020

This map is a sketch of some of the key areas i’m thinking about in terms of Learning Transformation across 2020: it’s only partly sketched so far, but i thought i would share a brief narrative around some of the … Continue reading

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Virtual Reality: A Lens for Learning

The point of the Modern Learning body of work is to consider things which are ‘real’ today, but will be pervasive in the 3-5 year window: do we understand what they are, where their potential lies, what the early case … Continue reading

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