My Spring 2020 schedule and things I do
My travels are a little more restrained this first half of the year, but then again, things change! And, it occurs to me to talk […]
Signifying change
I have a persistent interest in the potential for myth and ritual for learning. In the past I sought a synthesis of what’s known as […]
How do you drive yourself?
How do I drive myself? I was asked that in a coaching session. The question is asking how I keep learning. There are multiple answers, […]
Passion and Learning
My better half recently got a sample of special butter. A gift from a co-worker (an interesting story), and led me to reflect on the […]
Cultural Comment Shift
I’ve been blogging now for over a decade, and one thing has changed. The phenomena is that we’re seeing a cultural comment shift; comments are […]
Play to Learn
Thinking more about Friston’s Free Energy Principle and the implications for learning design prompted me to think about play. What drives us to learn, and […]
Clear about the concept
I went to hear a talk the other day. It was about competency-based education (CBE) for organizations. Ostensibly. And, while I’m now affiliated with IBSTPI, […]
Sub-symbolic and Situated
At the time that the connectionist folks were working on neural nets, another similar approach was genetic algorithms. Both were working in a different way […]
Lucky on Foundations
I was thinking about my next directions, and it led to me to think a bit about my foundations. And I realized I’ve been very […]
Direct Instruction or Guided Discovery
Recently, colleague Jos Arets of the 70:20:10 institute wrote a post promoting evidence-based work. And I’m a big fan, both of his work and the […]
Theory or Research?
There’s a lot of call for evidence-based methods (as mentioned yesterday): L&D, learning design, and more. And this is a good thing. But…do you want […]
Reconciling Cognitions and Contexts
In my past two posts, I first looked at cognitions (situated, distributed, social) by contexts (think, work, and learn), and then the reverse. And, having […]
