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Do your stories face inwards or out? Thinking about our messages in learning design

There’s a problem with organisational learning: sometimes it faces inwards when it should face out. ‘Facing in‘ is when we tell stories that have meaning just to us. ‘Facing ou… more →

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Do your stories face inwards or out? Thinking about our messages in learning design — 3 comments

julianstodd wrote 2 months ago: There’s a problem with organisational learning: sometimes it faces inwards when it should face … more →

Tags: Stories, engagement, writing, Communication, Learning, Context, Effectiveness, storytelling, Learning Design

Excuse me Miss, can I use the bus? #edcmooc

janhillman wrote 3 months ago: I enjoyed reading Daniel’s speech. I found this part quite thought-provoking: ‘Today tec … more →

Tags: #edcmooc, Learning, teacher collaboration, Education, digital culture, Vacuums, Bus

Early to bed, early to rise... understanding everyday reality in learning design

julianstodd wrote 7 months ago: In an effort to counter the effects of jet lag when i fly to the conference next week, i’ve be … more →

Tags: Community, engagement, Learning, Context, Effectiveness, empathy, Learning Design, Coffee, Everyday Reality

Strength in numbers: the power of a learning community — 2 comments

julianstodd wrote 7 months ago: This focus of this week has been learning culture: how it’s created, who owns and influences i … more →

Tags: Community, Blog, Culture, forum, Community of Practice, Ideas!, Formal Spaces, Blogging, Popup Learning

Amsterdam Diary - Day 4: Forbidden learning - what they never wanted you to know — 3 comments

julianstodd wrote 7 months ago: All week i’ve been exploring learning culture from Amsterdam. We started by looking into how t … more →

Tags: Control?, Challenge, Disturbance, graffiti, forbidden, visual language, Hidden, secret, Banned

Exploring Learning Styles: does an understanding of them make us better able to design learning? — 8 comments

julianstodd wrote 10 months ago: The notion of learning styles is interesting: that we can identify different ways that people learn … more →

Tags: e-learning 2, Learning, Instructional Design, Learning Design, Education, concepts, Learning styles, Effectiveness, Research

Martha Payne: The freedom to speak - exploring the challenges as social media invade formal spaces — 2 comments

julianstodd wrote 11 months ago: Martha Payne is nine years old. She’s an active blogger who has gained a great deal of publici … more →

Tags: Blog, Learning, Freedom, Control?, Challenge, informal spaces, Education, Journalism, Family

Everyone Has Barriers to Learning – So What Do You Do? — 2 comments

bethesdablog wrote 1 year ago: By Ellen Hierl Recently, the Bethesda Institute presented its first webinar, Teacher Growth Series: … more →

Tags: Professional Development, Support, Intellectual Disabilities, disabilities, Ellen Hierl, Bethesda Institute, learning capacity, Students, Webinar

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

julianstodd wrote 1 year ago: Do you know how many people died in the Second World War? I was reading a book about Yuri Gagarin la … more →

Tags: Effectiveness, Information, Education, Complexity, large numbers, unimaginably large numbers, Second World War, wwii, abstract

The thing and the fear of the thing: why electricity may not be all that bad after all.

julianstodd wrote 1 year ago: Herman was built in 1967, making him reassuringly older than me. He starts with a bang and a cloud o … more →

Tags: Complexity, Fear, Learning, car mechanics, electricity, Engineering, Land Rover, Myth, British Engineering

Designing for mobile learning. Considerations and constraints. — 2 comments

julianstodd wrote 1 year ago: Tomorrow i’m facilitating a seminar on ‘Designing for mobile learning’, so i thoug … more →

Tags: Learning Technology, learning methodology, Design, Instructional Design, Learning Design, Apps, mobile learning, technology, Environment

Reach for the Cloud: Accessibility Everywhere — 2 comments

victorrivero wrote 1 year ago: GUEST COLUMN | by Christina Murakami Paul is a high school student with a visual impairment. His acu … more →

Tags: Cool Tools, Trends, Columnists, Cloud Computing, LucyTech, GPII, accessibility issues, visually impaired, Universal Accessibility

Commentaries on Being a Student and a Teacher — 1 comment

shel29 wrote 1 year ago:         Since the SOS rally there have been good commentaries, and I’m adding two of them here … more →

Tags: Media presentation of teachers, classroom teaching, Teaching, writing, Student/Teacher Relationships, Teaching Writing, Lawrence O'Donnell, myths of being a teacher, student/teacher relationships

When is a Lavatory a Toilet? Getting bogged down in jargon... — 1 comment

julianstodd wrote 2 years ago: Sometimes i have to reset my brain to the particular flavour of acronym in use by a specific client. … more →

Tags: e-learning 2, engagement, E-learning, Jargon, Acronyms, simple

Inspiration and Motivation in Learning - can you really be bothered? — 1 comment

julianstodd wrote 2 years ago: At the end of a piece of learning, we often have a call to arms. What are you going to differently t … more →

Tags: Motivation, Inspiration, Footsteps, Learning

The High Jump - why it's sometimes good to introduce barriers to learning

julianstodd wrote 2 years ago: Usually, we try to make things as easy as possible for the learner. We ensure that we know where the … more →

Tags: branching video, Exploration, barriers, Learning

How can we remove barriers to learning? — 2 comments

guerrillamum wrote 2 years ago: This is my third post for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust blog, in which I considered how … more →

Tags: Education and the new government, Special Educational Needs, Advocacy, Disability, graduated response, Bullying, Differentiation, Handwriting, laptop

Not for the Likes of Us — 2 comments

Katie Smith wrote 2 years ago: I am currently working with Jackie Goodall from The Cottage Museum in Woodhall Spa http://www.woodha … more →

Tags: Active Learning, new technologies, Museum Education, The Mighty Creatives, MLA Learning Links, The Cottage Museum, gala bingo

Connecting, Reflecting and Imagining the Possibilities — 1 comment

Katie Smith wrote 2 years ago: My tag line is ‘connecting, reflecting and imagining the possibilities’ and expresses what I am cons … more →

Tags: 100 Day Challenge, Reflective practice, Active Learning, Fulbridge School, Creative Partnerships, highscope, Early Years, Creative Curriculum, whole-school approach


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