On April 27, 2011, Clark Quinn and I kicked off a meeting of the Chief Learning Officer Executive Network at Symantec in Mountain View. The Executive Networks people took notes; here are the main points from my presentation. Read more →
I set out to discover the purpose of ‘education’ after hearing about the purposed campaign. After reviewing some quotes from influential scholars and some definitions on the web, a four-sided picture of education’s purpose came to mind. I began with the Wikipedia definition of education. Read more →
This post has been inspired by a week full of educational emotions. On Monday I tweeted out about my pain seeing my young daughter struggling to cope with the overwhelming amount of homework. I must add that the small school she attends has a fantastic reputation and they really do care and work hard with the children, but they of course have their targets and performance criteria and grade sheets etc., etc… Read more →
Why do I need a new word for learning? Well, according to the experts in the learning consultancy branch, every time the word learning is used their clients dive under their desks and refuse to come out until they’ve gone… thanks LMS & the Snake Oil salesmen. So, the hunt is now on for a new word that is less scary. Read more →
Today’s posting follows on from yesterday’s thoughts on shallow thinking and the effect technology is having on our minds and brains. The first part of this post is clipped from Our Cluttered Minds (via NY Times – http://nyti.ms/dnGo1t), By Jonah Lehrer, Published: May 27, 2010: it is, in essence, a review of Nicholas Carr’s book: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. Read more →
These are fundamental, inspirational, prescient, important documents and presentations. All free on the web. Amazing! Seminal Video is at the bottom of this page. Please suggest what else should appear here. Read more →
Humans are sight mammals, proposes e-learning guru Jay Cross. They learn almost twice as well from images and words as from words alone. Visuals engage both hemispheres of the human brain. Pictures translate across cultures, education levels, and age groups. Yet, most content of corporate learning is text. Schools spend years teaching how to read but only hours on visual literacy. It’s high time for us to open our eyes to the possibilities, Cross asserts. Read more →
