2007–2026
1,435 posts
2026 9
April 2026
- Assessment at a crossroads - don't catch, change behaviour
- Hassabis - most important AI person on the planet
March 2026
- New, free language learning tool in Google Translate
- AI should be the Guide, not the Ghostwriter
- AI assessment apocalypse – a 5-step solution
February 2026
- AI Confidential with Hannah Fry - hatchet job that lacks balance
- AI fits like a glove in EFL and second language teaching
January 2026
2025 4
July 2025
April 2025
- Memo from CEO of Shopify.... Reflexive AI usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify
- Fiverr CEO''s stunning letter to all employees..... AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it’s coming for my job too.
January 2025
2024 163
December 2024
- Raising in Arizona with AI: groundbreaking journey in AI ducation
- Why Latin should NOT be in the school curriculum
- AGI is here...
- Fast technology and the slowcoach brain – fascinating paper
- Does ChatGPT enhance student learning? Meta-study with some surprises!
- Reclaiming Productivity: Aligning Work, Learning, and Societal Needs
- Astounding talk by Sutskever
- Tyranny of Text: Education, Work, and the AI Revolution
- How do emotions impact learning and mental effort? Maybe not as we think
November 2024
- Do DEI programmes need a reality check?
- Acronyms, alliteration and absurdity: the sad truth about Organisational 'Values'
- 20 ways to use NEW Google Video analysis
- Is AI generated video as GOOD as real video in learning?
- GenAI synthesises and does not copy – huge case won by OpenAI
- AI school opens - learners are not good or bad but fast and slow
- 5 big surprises in Wharton report on GenAI
October 2024
- Should L&D be renamed the ‘PERFORMANCE Department’?
- Apple Intelligence has finally dropped from the tree! A primer...
- Holy Trinity of AI, Fusion and Quantum computing could create new future
- Solid paper on personalised learning
- Ai-Da: Challenging creativity's boundaries in a post-humanist, post-creation era?
- Taming the AI & Assessment Conflict: 21 Practical Resolutions
- Agentic AI can now use your computer
- Who put the Silicon in Silicon Valley? The place where rocks were made to think...
- Screentime - another in the Sisyphean cycle of technology panics?
- GOOGLE and AMAZON GO NUCLEAR!
- Robot teaching assistants – I’ve changed my mind…
- Learning theorist gets Nobel Prize….
- Academia sneering at Hinton's Nobel Prize for Physics shows a level of distasteful jealousy.... he's a genius
- An AI provocation! How biased are WE on AI? Fascinating paper…
- AI will not take your job but someone using AI will – it may well replace Doctors?
- Straight from the imagination to the screen.... Meta's video release
September 2024
- Realistic dialogue is here....
- Is SaaS in learning dead?
- Good survey (1045 parents & teens 13-18) showing high use of GenAI in schools (with short podcast)
- Another great teaching and learning tool. NotebookLM's automated podcasts will blow your mind
- GenAI students learn more than twice as much in less time, with more engagement motivation enjoyment & growth mindset
- ChatGPT o1 brilliant 'worked example' teaching & learning tool
- Art and AI - a radical jump?
- Has ChatGPTo1 just become a 'Critical Thinker'?
- AI is a provocation – that explains a lot of the bizarre reactions
- Founder v Manager mode - the meme
- Man who coined the phrase ‘Postmodern’ is often forgotten - Jean-François Lyotard
- UNESCO and AI - mostly rhetoric
- AI in schools - how one large school organisation is kick starting the process....
- Motivation - in the blink of an AI…. an underestimated dimension of Generative AI
- Alien Romulus - a movie for the age of AI
August 2024
- ASU is all in on AI with a bottom up approach....
- Yale spend $150 million on AI - why this leads the way for AI in Higher Education...
- Foucault - friend or foe in learning?
- One thing often happens at keynotes and conferences. It surprised me….
- Heidegger's a fascinating thinker on teaching, learning and technology
- Astonishing figures and insights from Harvard Undergraduate Survey on Generative AI
- Does Derrida's View of Language help us understand Generative AI?
- Benchmarks on factual accuracy on LLMs
- Strawberry Fields forever? Is GPT5 really to change the world?
- 6 Level AI Maturity Model (AIMM)
- AI ethical objections - use it, you see the light… says Gartner
July 2024
- Microsoft AI and Productivity Report - huge amounts of AI on the sly!
- What if discussions of bias in AI were mostly biased themselves?
- Apple Intelligence is here
- What is China up to in AI? A lot!
- Sly use of AI! Data on using AI on the sly.
- An AI hospital, AI physicians and clinical decision making
- ‘Technology is not the problem' by Timandra Harkness
- Choosing a GenAI model? Tricky... quick guide...
- Resilence training - where it came from and why it went so badly wrong
- Worrying data on how students & institutions are dealing with AI
- GT5 and synthetic baby! It’s the future I tell you… but what is it?
- Future of AI is here but not evenly distributed - some real SURPRISES on use, gender, age, expectations & ethics
- AI projects: What to do? How to do it? Let me introduce you to Nickle LaMoreaux, the CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer) at IBM
- Collaborative Overload Harvard Business Review - why collaboration often sucks and what to do about it!
- Recruitment is a cat and mouse game. AI gives the mice real edge! 30 ways candidates use AI to get new jobs…
- A plea for quiet learning for adults against the cacophony of the training room or e-learning...
- US-EU digital divide deepens as Meta and Apple hold back product – it’s a mess
- Good discussion paper on the Role and Expertise of AI Ethicists: Bottom line – it’s a mess!
- My favourite AI quote....
- Lascaux: archaeology of the mind - a LIM (Large Image Model) and a place of teaching and learning
- Labour, growth, productivity and AI
- Mary Meaker's tech report 'AI & Universities' is right but delusional
June 2024
- Is the Dispatches C4 programme a completely faked experiment?
- This blind trial paper raises some serious questions on assessment
- Natural-born cyborgs - learnings new imperative with AI
- Being You by Anil Seth - brilliant introduction to contemporary neuroscience
- The DATA is in… AI is happening BIG TIME in organisations…
- British Library. Books look like museum pieces as that it what they are becoming?
- The 'Netflix of AI' that makes you a movie Director
- Apple solves privacy and security concerns around AI?
- Ethan Mollick’s 'CO-INTELLIGENCE' - a review
- Sam has ditched Satya for Tim – he’s so louche that lad! Apple Intelligence is here! New Siri and more...
- 7 success factors in real 'AI in learning' projects
- Postcreation: a new world. AI is not the machine, it is now ‘us’ speaking to ‘ourselves’, in fruitful dialogue.
May 2024
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- AI as response to digital transformation
- Context matters? Yes and AI has made its move...
- AI Business Boats don’t rise with these models, they remain tethered to the old dock and sink.
- Does this 'Her' moment mark the rise of AI coaching?
- Google just dropped some great news on AI for learning....
- Is teaching becoming obsolete with GPT4o? Do we now have a UNIVERSAL TEACHER?
- Japan - a lesson in life and technology
- I asked myself (‘Digital-Don’) what personality traits I showed, then compared this to LLM personality trauits (OCEAN)
April 2024
- The Great Hall - where now with AI? It is not 'Human Connection V Innovative Technology' but 'Human Connection + Innovative Technology'
- Is L&D being flipped?
- Learning Technologies Conference 2024: If you want to move a graveyard you will get no help from the incumbents!
- Pfeffer - Leadership BS!
- Kellerman on followership
- Mintzberg crtiticisms of leadership theory
- Kotter on leadership and the 8 steps
- Hersey and Blanchard - Situational Leadership Model
- Drucker - father of modern management on leadership
- Burns - transactional to transformational leadership
- Ong - orality, literacy and new technologies?
- Merlin Donald - evolution, culture and ezternal sketchpad
- Turchin's terrifying predictions
- New psychology – Connectionists
- Clark on AI, extended mind, neurodiversity and psychosis
- Tenenbaum on one or few shot systems and common sense core
- Friston on the Bayesian mind
- Dennett, AI and the computational mind
- Strawson on the storied self
- Parfit on brain states and personal identity
- Hume as psychologist and on learning
March 2024
- Chater - The Flat Mind
- Will AI will make us stupid? A conceit of the old when faced the the new!
- Sisyphean nature of moral panics against new technology
- What does the learning game have to learn from the beautiful game - football? Data really matters...
- Multimodal means many more moments for learning
- AI moves from 2D to 3D
- The Strange Case of Altman V Board at OpenAI revealed
- Are the LMS & VLE dead! Accenture and Udacity draw new line in sand
- Is ‘Deepfake’ hysteria mostly fake news?
- The Mind is Flat!
February 2024
- There’s a new Sheriff in town – AI!
- Rather than deepfakes, censorship and surreal ethical fakes are the problem?
- Algorithms, optimisation and football
- I am become life, the creator of worlds?
- Sora - as Producer, Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Casting Director, Costume designer and actors
- Sora and Gemini 1.5 - two mind blowing releases within hours of each other
- AI gets massive memory upgrade - implications for AI in learning
- AI changes work and will change who, why and how we recruit
- AI is the Copernican collective, cultural mind - it is US!
- Remarkable rise of AI wellbeing bots
- Jennie Lee had more influence on UK Higher Education that anyone dead or alive
- This is why the idea that AI will just augment jobs, never replace them, is a lie!
January 2024
- Have we passed 'Peak Ethics' in AI?
- GPT4 is not a 'stochastic parrot'
- Is UX design killing product? 25 ways to make your e-learning totally suck!
- Real Time Avatars! Never saw that coming this quick....
- Musk, Zombie leadership and diversity - why they're picking on the wrong guy...
- Augment teaching with AI - this teacher has it sussed...
- AI revolutionising the smartphone
- Another 'Institute' for AI? Really?
- Yet another stunning breakthrough in AI from Deepmind...
- Millions using therapy bots....
- Universal Doctor - we're getting there...
- Speech with ChatGPT.... honestly, it is amazing
- Teams launched by Open AI! But not Microsoft Teams, who will be pissed!
- University enrols two AI students - fascinating experiment
- Artificial Intelligence - calm down everyone - meaning is use
- A Large Language Model (LLM) happened once before in history and it changed the world forever…
- AI University and Research? Waves of innovation are hitting the research field
- Paul LeBlanc - talks the talk and has walked the walk!
- AI University?
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December 2023
- Babbage - genius but of little causal significance in history of computers
- Ada Lovelace - insightful but full of surprises...
- Google has several cards up their sleeves...
- Chatty robots are here...
- ‘Engines of Engagement’ is a curious (authors’ description) book about Generative AI.
- EU legislation is a mess... even Macron thinks it has gone way too far
November 2023
- Online Educa Berlin 2023 - Fun three days? Damn right it was!
- EU AI legislation is firming up and I fear the worst. Danger of overregulation...
- Bakhtin (1895-1975) dialogics, learning and AI
August 2023
July 2023
- This is the worst AI will ever be, so focused are educators on the present they can’t see the future
- AI is now opening its eyes, like Frankenstein awakening to the world
- Huw did we ever get to this?
- Is Ethics doing more HARM than GOOD in AI for learning?
- Leeds leads the way on HE and online learning events
June 2023
- Can machines have empathy and other emotions?
- Is the new Digital Divide in AI between the 'EU' and 'Rest of the World'?
- Pask, Conversational Theory & Generative AI
- High-horses are all very well but not if you want to get somewhere
- Personalised tutors - a dumb rich kid is more likely to graduate from college than a smart poor one
- Papert, AI and concrete learning
- Vygotsky, language, intelligence and AI
- Apple will shift us from 2D to 3D and set the pace in learning with the Vision Pro
- Language, AI and what we can learn from Wittgenstein
- AI does not have a ‘ghost in the machine’
- Generative AI - my sense of wonder and hope
May 2023
- Africa is not a place and doesn’t need white saviours in learning
- AI in Africa...
- 21st Century Skills – the last refuge of human exceptionalism!
- Human Exceptionalism – we need to get over ourselves
- Smart algorithms work for Google Facebook & Amazon can they work for learning?
- Learning technologies 2023 - a tale of two events
April 2023
- 11 words in AI that I wish were used with more care...
- Are we heading towards a ‘Universal Teacher’?
- Ethics, Experts and AI
- Learning Designers will have to adapt or die. 10 ways to UPSKILL to AI….
March 2023
- Moral panic and AI regulation...
- We've just gone from a simple teacher-learner model to a new world of AI teachers - a new pedAIgogy
- ChatGPT4 hits Duolingo. Game changer in language learning
- Best use of 'engagement' in learning I've ever heard using ChatGPT!
- PedAIgogy – new era of knowledge and learning where AI changes everything
February 2023
- OpenAI releases massive wave of innovation
- Does L&D take orders & deliver courses like a waiter OR worse, simply serve up food people never ordered in the first place?
- 7 ways to think and act strategically in your organisation about AI in learning
- How to prompt like a PRO! 100 types of prompt in ChatGPT for learning
- AI and learning is about to get a massive boost
- Education may be the death of us!
January 2023
- We've lit the fuse in fusion!
- Slaughterhouse live - my first real job!
- OpenAI has opened up AI to the world but will it conquer the world?
- Amazon a story of how AI became the beating heart of a business
- Apple's strategy for AI is around device improvement
- Microsoft launched ChatGPT-3, but Google also have a great hand, in fact they have a bird in the hand...
- 7 reasons why Microsoft is winning the AI war
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October 2022
August 2022
July 2022
- Futurelearn may not be a going concern
- How Emotions are Made by Lisa Feldman-Barrett
- Pfeffer on Leadership BS
- Comenius (1592-1670 )
- Kellerman - The End of Leadership?
- Story Machines, well worth a read by two experts in the field
June 2022
April 2022
January 2022
2021 101
December 2021
- Part 1: Philosopher of the Multiverse - Baudrillard
- Part 2: 20 reasons why the Metaverse may not work out as we think it will
- Wittrock Generative learning
- Education during COVID debate in Berlin
- Tales of the absurd from Berlin
November 2021
- Stickgold & Walker Sleep and learning
- Vannevar Bush Internet visionary
- Engelbart Collective intelligence and IQ
- Lanier Virtual Reality and Digital Maoism
- China's second Cultural revolution
- Wiley OER (Open Educational Resources)
- Baudrillard Virtual reality philosopher
- Shirky Cognitive surplus
- Chinese clampdown on tutoring, social media and games
- Hegel Bildung and educating for the state
- Krug Don't make us think
- Erikson (1902 – 1994) - Identity crises
- Herbart Individuality and character
- Kant. Moral character
- Erasmus Humanist educator
- Musk. Neuralink's Brain-Machine interfaces and Starlink
- Clark & Chalmers The extended mind
- Burt - 11 plus and falsified research
- Clark - Learning science to practice
- Hebb - Hebbian learning
- McCulloch & Pitts - Neural nets
- Rosenblatt - Perceptrons that learn
- Rumelhart & Hinton - Backpropagation learning from error
- Hassabis - Deepmind software that learns
- Binet & Simon - First IQ test
- Thaler & Sunstein - Nudge theory
- Panksepp - Research on emotions
- Huizinga - Homo Ludens - play and culture
- Gee - 36 learning principles in games
- Shackleton-Jones - Resources not courses
- Wallace - Performance and performance analysis
- Bloom (1930 - 1992) - Closing of the American Mind
- Kahneman & Tversky - System 1&2, cognitive bias
- Lakoff - embodied and emotional mind - man of metaphor
- Damasio & Immordino‐Yang - Role of emotion in learning
- Krathwohl (1921 – 2016) Affective learning taxonomy
October 2021
- HyFlex, Hybrid, Fusion or Blended learning - lots of names, few know what it is....
- Learning Experience Design
- 7 ways AI & Data are transforming learning
- THE GREAT BITCON
- Since when did Christmas become the celebration of successful supply-chains?
- Mosher and Goddfredson - 5 moments of learning need
- Pressey (1888-1979) - first teaching machine
- Roediger and Karpicke - Retrieval practice and effortful learning
- Clark - Media, direct instruction, analysis, agents, games and AI in learning
- Baldwin - Learning and evolution, may be one of the most significant learning theorists ever
- Mill - Utilitarianism, associationism and women’s rights
- Bentham - mummified inventor of Principle of utility and Panopticon
- Thrun - Udacity and MOOCs
- Darwin - Darwin’s dangerous idea and the Scopes Trial
September 2021
- Gery - Performance support and EPSS (Electronic Performance Support Systems)
- Jennings - conspiracy of convenience and 70:20:10
- Victoria Marsick on 'Informal' and 'incidental' learning. Technology (EPSS, LXPs, LRSs, AI, Data) now implementing her ideas...
- Feynman - Don’t lecture and Feynman Technique
- Haidt (1963 - ) social intuitionism and campus culture
- Ibn Tufayl (1106-1185) – Natural learning
- Al-Ghazzali (1058-1111) - Moral purpose
- 280 learning theorists... 2500 years of learning theory... from Greeks to Geeks!
- Goodhart (1956 - ) Somewheres and nowheres
- Sandel (1953 - ) tyranny of merit and the common good
- Holt (1923 - 85) homeschooling and unschooling
- Butler (1956 - ) Queer Theory, performativity and parody
- Lyotard (1924-98) Postmodernism
- Derrida (1930 - 2004) deconstruction and difference
- Foucault (1926 - 84) - Structuralism
- Giraux (1943 - ) put Critical Pedagogy on the map
- Heidegger (1889 - 1976) on teaching and learning
- Luis von Ahn (1978 - ) - free language learning
- John Watson (1878 - 1958) - father of behaviourism
August 2021
- 12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson, bitty and lacks byte
- Clark (1917 - 1983) - Racism in education
- Marzano - taxonomy, instructional strategies and discipline
July 2021
- Curious story of the first Teaching Machines... did Skinner really rear his daughter in a box?
- Edward Tolman (1886-1959) - latent learning
- Is the classroom a Faraday Cage where the rules of the outside world are suspended? Time to think outside of the box that is the classroom?
- Disneyfication of learning
June 2021
- M-learning - from a van!
- Eric Mazur- peer and online learning
- Little bits of transcendence?
- Monkey’s mind plays pong - no hands. Frictionless interface. Here’s my musings on 10 possible, and probable, mind-blowing applications in LEARNING
- Higher Education is exacerbating, not fixing problems, in teaching - much of it can be automated
April 2021
- Be heard and not seen… amazing rise of the podcast…
- AI revolutionises Higher Education in China Open. Huge project gets UNESCO Prize
- Micro-videos; What are they? How to make them sticky? How to deliver? Good interface? How to make them?
- AI: America innovates, China implements, EU regulates... where does that leave the UK?
- Monkey plays computer game by mind control, mediated by AI. Here’s 10 implications for learning…
March 2021
- Disabling video may be better for online teaching and collaboration
- Education not a universal ‘good’
- Why is ‘AI and Ethics’ work mostly a waste of time? It’s rife with amateurism in ‘ethics’, confirmation bias, anthropomorphism and activism.
February 2021
- Starlink changes everything. It may be the most important form of learning technology of the century
- Head, Hand and Heart by David Goodhart
- From Nazi Punchcards to the Cambrian Explosion of LMSs and now LXPs - a short history of enterprise learning software
- Learning Technology - attempt at defining Tech-OLOGY
January 2021
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December 2020
- Foreword to Conducting performance-based Instructional Analysis by Guy Wallace
- OEB debate on Higher Education... 7 mins each... here's my 7 mins worth...
October 2020
- Practice - mostly forgotten yet where most learning takes place...
- Engagement - most used yet most misunderstood word in learning?
- Emotion in Learning Experience Design - Norman's 3 facets; Visceral, Behavioural and Reflective...
- Fun, humour... it's place in learning...
- Pay attention! Attention is a necessary condition for learning experience design, but poorly understood...
September 2020
- Transfer - why is it ignored? Here's how to fix it...
- Let's move on from 'Unintelligible Intelligences' - IQ, Multiple Intelligences, Emotional Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence...
- US Gov Report on Online Learning - a must read
- Learning Experience Designer... Who are they, what do they do?
- AI for Learning. So what is the book about?
- Blended baloney
- Abandon lectures: increase attendance, attitudes and attainment
- Huge study: Do universities really teach critical thinking? Apparently not.
- Life's a blend! 10 ways Covid has blended our lives...
August 2020
- More important than man on the moon - the melding of mind and machine
- Taylor (1856 – 1915) training as a formal function within organisations, essential to business growth
- Universities are the perfect hub and spoke network for viral spread
- AI for Learning. So what's this book about?
- Study on retention using Video plus AI-generated retrieval practice
- Pixel is a powerful, portal, personal pocketful of AI....
- AI and ethics - it's not as good as you think and not as bad as you fear
- Future of learning technology is invisible AI – AI is new UI...
- TikTok; fascinating features for the future of learning…
- Wellness, Happiness and Mindfulness - Holy Trinity of bogus therapy culture
July 2020
- GPT-3 is like looking into the future... What a time to be living!
- Diversity training, the damning evidence that $8billion a year is wasted
- Feedback is the lubricating oil of teaching and learning. Yet feedback in online learning – its mostly absent...
- What should schools, colleges and Universities do in September? …7 actions
- Bogus pyramids: Learning methods, Maslow and Bloom
June 2020
- Blended Working... less offices, commuting, hierarchies, stress, office politics, spend, dressing up, classroom training, conferences…
- Learning is a process, not an event... events mainly give the illusion of learning...
- Starlink, 5G and AI – science fiction becomes fact – how this leap will transform global online learning...
- Everyone wants Blended, Hyflex, Hybrid, or Fusion Learning, few know what it is....
- 7 great things Duolingo teaches us about good online learning
May 2020
April 2020
- Why learning analytics? Dashboard trap, decision making, how to start, false idols...
- Conferences are going through an extinction-level threat. Online conference need buzz, don't just shove your old conference on to Zoom...
- Thiel – Critique of Higher Education… it offers the same thing year after year, at a higher and higher price...
- Nielsen - When online goes bad... eye-tracking data, bad internal search
- Norman: tech should be 'invisible' in learning…
- Gatto – I quit, I think…
- Caplan - The Case Against Education – some inconvenient truths….
- Schank – Scripts and doing…
- Illich (1926-2002) – Deschooling… prophetic on technology…
- Nass & Reeves – Computers are seen as human…
- Mayer - Over 500 studies on online learning… some surprising…
- Downes & Siemens – Connectivism… cMOOCs…
- Schools must change… online must be part of their future… 12 recommendations...
- Prensky - Digital natives and immigrants… and games…
- Papert – Logo, Lego and constructIONism
- Ng & Koller – Academic and corporate MOOCs…
- Mitra – Hole in the wall… but holes in the research…
- 10 tips for speaking online when teaching...
- Khan - Khan Academy… a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere
- Dougiamas – Moodle man…
- Wales – Wikipedia and knowledge…
- Chen & Hurley – YouTube as a learning platform
- Jobs (1955-2011) – Apple in education… device fetish?
March 2020
- Page & Brin – Google search… G Suite and many other tools for teaching and learning…
- Cockpit of control – 10 practical tips on how to set up to teach from home
- Gates – Toolmaker, philanthropist and adaptive learning...
- Berners-Lee – World Wide Web and online learning…
- Wenger - Communities of practice…
- Salas - Teaching teams… What makes a good team? How do you develop teams and train for teamwork?
- Universities and Coronavirus: revenues will fall, costs rise, liabilities increase
- Stodd – The Social Age…
- Belbin – Optimal teams – nine roles…
- Agile online learning – in minutes not months using AI
- Dweck – Growth mindset… influential but recent doubts…
- Black & Wiliam - Avoid ‘hands up’… Formative feedback… evils of marking…
- Willingham – Cognitive science in teaching… critic of learning styles and 21st C skills…
- Hattie – Visible learning…
- Rosenshine (1930 – 2017) 17 principles of effective instruction…
- Engelmann (1931 – 2019) Much maligned direct instruction…
- Hirsche – Cultural literacy and core knowledge…
- Robinson – Creative with theory…
- Eisner (1933 - 2014) Art matters but not simplistic ‘creativity’…
- Knowles (1913 - 1997) - Adult learning… Andragogy… lifelong learning...
- White (1934 - ) Education as autonomy…
- Kirkpatrick - 4-levels of evaluation
- Myers-Briggs (1897–1980, 1875–1968) – Jungian Ponzi scheme…
- Schleicher - Mr PISA… a leaning tower of data?
- Goleman - Emotional Intelligence – is it even a 'thing'?
- Gardner - Multiple Intelligences… uncanny resemblance to current curriculum subjects…
- Gardner - Multiple Intelligences… uncanny resemblance to current curriculum subjects…
- Eysenck (1916-1997) - IQ, assessment and personality...
- Postman (1931-2003) - Amusing ourselves to death...
- McLuhan (1911-1980) – Global village where the medium is the message…
- Martin – Women in education, a story of exclusion…
- Kohlberg (1927 - 1987) - Moral development… overstated…
- Ton of tools and 10 things to do if you're new to online learning...
- Maslow (1908 - 1970) – That misleading pyramid (5 or 7?)… hierarchy of needs…
- Seligman - Positive psychology… but at the cost of realism?
- Csikszentmihalyi – Go with the flow…
- Cross (1944-2015) - Informal and workflow learning…
- Geary - Evolution and education…
- Kolb – Experiential learning…
- Honey & Mumford - All style no substance?
- Fleming - VAKuous learning styles?
- Merrill - Instruction principles for offline and online learning…
- Kolb – Experiential learning…
- Gagne (1916 - 2002) - Nine instructional steps… but formulaic?
- Bloom (1913-1999) - Mastery learning. Taxonomy of learning… not a hierarchy…
- Mager – Learning objectives… Condtiions, Performance, Criterion…
February 2020
- Coronavirus and climate change should accelerate online education and training...
- Bjork – Illusory learning… the solution… desirable difficulty…
- Ericsson - Deliberate practice… retrieval cues…
- James (1842-1910) – Father of modern psychology... learn by doing...
- Dewey (1859 - 1952) – Habits, practical and problem-based learning
- Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) - Forgetting curve… primacy & recency…
- Sweller – Cognitive Load Theory – less is more
- Tulving - Episodic & semantic memory
- Baddeley - Working memory...
- Atkinson & Shiffrin - Memory matters... three-stage model of memory...
- Miller - Magic number 7 and chunking... referred to himself as being ‘plagued by an integer’!
- Bandura – Bridge between behaviourism and cognitive psychology... Bobo dolls and aggression
- Buddha (6th and 5th C BC) - Monasticism to mindfulness
- Thorndike (1874 – 1949) – Experimental rigour and why Latin doesn’t give you transferable skills...
- Pavlov (1849-1936) – Behaviourism begins....
- Burt - farm schools and employment
- Colbert – New Schools… innovation in South America...
- Neill (1883 – 1973) - Summerhill...
- Steiner (1861-1925) - Mysticism & eurythmics…
- Humboldt (1767-1825) – Prussian schooling and Higher Education… hugely influential…
- Harris – Amazing research on peer pressure in education...
- Bandler – NLP - training’s fraudulent cult…
- Rogers (1902 - 1987) - Teacher as facilitator and therapist…
- Steiner (1861-1925) - Mysticism & eurythmics
- Freud (1856 – 1923) – Fraudulent origin of therapy culture
- Donaldson (1926 - ) On children’s and human minds… better than Piaget…
- Bruner (1916-2016) - Constructivist scaffolder...
- Vygotsky (1896-1934) - Social constructivism... Oft-quoted, rarely read...
- Erikson (1902 – 1994) - Identity crises...
- Piaget (1896-1980) – Bad scientist… mostly wrong…
- Chomsky - Education as indoctrination
- Freire (1921-1997) - Banking theory of education and critical pedagogy...
- Habermas - Ideology in education
- Althusser (1918-1990) – Ideological State Apparatuses..With Althusser, Marxist theory in education had run its course. History, a much admired Marxist tool, had proved them wrong.
January 2020
- Donald Taylor's International survey - No 1 may surprise you - but 1-5 taken together is the new era...
- Gramsci (1891-1937) – that word ‘Hegemony’....
- Marx (1818-1883) – Education as class war…
- Edgeworths - You'll never have heard of them but good on practical education...
- Wollstonecraft (1759-97) – Women and education...
- Smith (1723-90) – searing attack on Higher Education...
- Rousseau (1712-1778)... Noble savage...
- Locke (1632-1704)... Motivation and habit...
- Calvin (1509-1564) - Teachers as preachers... deficit model…
- Luther (1483-1546) - Universal schooling... reform...
- Ignatius (1401-1556) - Jesuit zeal… Give me a boy (don't take this the wrong way)…
- Buddha (6th and 5th C BC) - Monasticism to mindfulness
- St Augustine (354 – 430) – Bad-boy turned good… a tale of teaching and lust...
- Superintelligence by Nicholas Bostrum - abstract, at times esoteric but worth the effort
- Mohammed (570AD –632AD) - Recitation
- Jesus (7–2 BC to 30–36 AD) – Parables and sermons... then lectures.. teaching as preaching...
- Confucius (551-479BC) - Authority and assessment
- Algorithms to Live By The Computer Science of Human Decisions Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
- Pythagoras (570-495 BC), Euclid (~ 300 BC), Archimedes (287-212 BC) – Men of mathematics
- Aristotle (384-322 BC) – Man of science & logic
- Plato (428-348 BC) – Man of reason... but wary of fiction!
- Socrates (469-399 BC) – Socratic method, man of dialogue...
- Talk To Me by James Vlahos; great read for those working in or interested in bots...
- Re-engineering Humanity by Brett Frischmann and Evan Seliger - slippery slope argument that tech steals into our lives with 'cheap bliss'......
- Human Compatible by Stuart Russell - go to guy on AI - a must read..
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December 2019
November 2019
- Video for learning –15 things the research says – some may shock you…
- OEB Berlin… AI, video, learning analytics, data, and schnapps!
- Learning - lessons from AI...
- Let's give Technology an -ology...
- Doug – a meditation - Things I've learnt from Doug Part II
- Don’t lecture me!
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
- Dennett - why we need polymaths in the AI ethics debate
- Neurotech – mind-boggling final frontier between mind & machine – and possible impact on learning
July 2019
June 2019
May 2019
- 10 ways AI is used in video for learning – from deepfakes to personalisation
- How to turn video into deep learning
- ‘Machines Like Me’ by Ian McEwan – a flawed machinage a trois
April 2019
- The Geneva Learning Foundation is bringing AI-driven training to health workers in 90 countries
- Climate change: dematerialisation and online learning
- Why ‘learning analytics’? Why ‘Learning Record Stores’?
- Why AI in healthcare is working but IBM failed. What we can learn from this in learning?
- Can you name the three winners winner of the Nobel Prize for their work in climate change? How online learning is tackling climate change
March 2019
- Chatbots are being abused – but they’re fighting back!
- Ai starts to crack the critical thinking... astonishing experiment...
- Why learning professionals – managers, project managers, interactive designers, learning experience designers, whatever, should not ignore research
- Summarising learning materials using AI - abundance of stuff
- Learning experiences often not learning at all
February 2019
- Musk’s OpenAI breakthrough has huge implications for online learning
- What is ‘adaptive’ learning?
- Why being more digital makes us more human
- 2019 predictions in L&D... some surprising disappearances...
- Does ‘Design thinking’ lead to bad learning design?
January 2019
- Voice is here - online learning has been traditionally 'nil by mouth' but not now....
- This 'less is more' AI technique saves time, money and helps increase retention...
- 10 things you need to know to before you buy or build a chatbot
- AI breakthroughs in learning in 2018
- Year of learning dangerously – my 15 highs and lows of 2018
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December 2018
- Learning Experience Systems – just more click-through online learning?
- Learning is not a circus and teachers are not clowns - the OEB debate
- What one, intensively--researched principle in learning is like tossing a grenade into common practice?
November 2018
- Why almost everything we think about online learning may be wrong and what to do about it…
- Do we really need all of this 'mentoring' malarkey’?
- Why is learning so hard? Hyperbolic discounting – what is it and what to do about it
- World’s first hologram lecture (not really) but are they necessary?
October 2018
- Agile online learning – in minutes not months using AI
- Agile online learning (not a single F2F meeting) in 'impossible timescales' saves £450k with 36% increase in sales
- Has L&D been hijacked by ‘identity’ politics?
- "On average, humans have one testicle”... that's why most data analytics projects in education are misleading....
- Nudge learning
- Why Blockchain is a busted flush
- Blockchain looking more and more like a ball and chain?
September 2018
- Learning Designers will have to adapt or die. Here’s 10 ways they need to adapt to AI….
- Breakthrough that literally opens up online learning? Using AI for free text input
- Why almost all Multiple Choice Questions are badly designed...
- Are 'chatbots' a gamechanger in learning? 10 reasons and some warnings!
- First randomised-controlled trial of an employee “Wellness Programme” suggests they are a waste of money Oh dear….
- Bullshit Jobs - Futurist, Thought Leader, Leader... if you call yourself this, you're most probably not
- Hearables are hear to stay in learning - podcasts, learning, language learning, tutoring, spaced-practice and cheating in exams!
August 2018
- Research shows Good Behaviour Game is constructivist nonsense
- Wikipedia’s bot army - shows us the way in governance of AI
- How I got blocked by Tom Peters - you must bow to the cult of Leadership or be rejected as an apostate
- Why these best selling books on 'Leadership' got it disastrously wrong
- Drones - why they really do matter....
- Agile production – online learning needs to get its skates on
- Could this be the worst piece of online learning ever? Let me explain why it may well be…
- AI now plays a major recommendation role in L&D - resistance is futile
- Video is good but never enough - how to supplement it in minutes to get great learning
July 2018
- “Huge milestone in advancing artificial intelligence” (Gates) as AI becomes a team – big implications for learning?
- Data is not the new oil, more likely the new snakeoil….
June 2018
- Clever AI/AR/Teacher hybrid systems for classroom use
- AI and religious zealotry – let’s not fall for anthropomorphism, techno-prophecies, singularity & end-of-days
- Blockchain – got married on it but fell out of love with it….
- Personalised learning – what the hell is it? 10 things that work...
- Study shows VR increases learning
- University faculty believe in Learning Styles and promote it to students while their Teacher Training departments say it's a myth
- To Siri With Love - how chatbots are becoming social companions and teachers...
- Unconscious bias training a waste of time – 7 reasons why Starbucks training will not work
- Lifelong Learning is a conceit
May 2018
- 20 important takeaways for learning world from Mary Meeker's brilliant tech trends
- Most satisfying and relevant thing I've ever done...
- The Case Against Education – some inconvenient truths…. a must read
- 10 reasons why GDPR is a Kafkaesque mess….
- Bullshit Jobs - how capitalism has replaced real jobs with BS jobs....
- A/B testing shows that Pavlovian gamification does not work
- Google just announced an AI bot that could change teaching & learning…. consequences are both exciting & terrifying…
April 2018
- Amazon’s Alexa is about to get a lot smarter – could it help teach?
- Lords report ‘AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?’ Let’s be honest - ready – no, willing – sort of, able not really…
- The Fallacy of ‘Robot’ Teachers
- AI-driven speech may revolutionise online learning
March 2018
- AI has and will change language learning forever
- Should you listen to music while studying? No... here's why
- Why is online learning ‘all fur coat and no knickers’? Media rich is not mind rich
February 2018
- We don’t need no stinkin’ badges? Why the badges movement has literally run its course
- Tyranny of time – why learning often wastes time...
- Woe is me… my 10 days being counselled by a chatbot (woebot)…
- Online healthcare learning - in minutes not months
January 2018
- 9 ways Africa can use AI to leapfrog into the future
- Nurses – why degrees are not the answer for NHS crisis
- AI just outperformed humans at reading, potentially putting millions of customer service jobs at risk of automation. Could it do the same in learning?
- Superfast AI creation of online learning in manufacturing - fast, cheap, effective
- Astonishing fake in education and training - the graph that never was
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December 2017
- Is debate around 'bias in AI' driven by human bias? Discuss
- 10 uses for Chatbots in learning (with examples)
- 7 solid reasons to suppose that chatbot interfaces will work in learning
- Fully Connected by Julia Hobsbawn – I wish I hadn’t
- Invisible LMS: the LMS is not dead, but it needs to be invisible – front it with a chatbot
- The Square and the Tower – networks and hierarchies
November 2017
- Christmas Party shenanigans – let’s fight for the right to paaarty….. and call it a HR-free zone
- Janesville - a town that explains Trump and also why you shouldn't judge or blame people for being poor
- Jared Lanier: Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey Through Virtual Reality
- 7 ways to use AI to massively reduce costs in the NHS
- EdTech – all ‘tech’ and no ‘ed’ – why it leads to mosquito projects that die….
- Reasons to abandon multiple-choice questions
October 2017
- Kirkpatrick evaluation: kill it - happy sheet nonsense, well past its sell-by-date
- Gagne's 9 dull Commandments - why they cripple learning design...
- AI-driven tool produces high quality online learning for global company in days not months
- Is there one book you’d recommend as an introduction to AI? Yes. Android Dreams by Toby Walsh
September 2017
- AI on land, sea, air (space) & cyberspace – it’s truly terrifying
- ResearchEd - 1000 teachers turn up on a Saturday for grassroots event....
August 2017
- LearnDirect - lessons to learn?
- 7 reasons why University applications will continue to decline
- 7 fascinating bots – crazy but interesting
July 2017
- Tutorbots are here - 7 ways they could change the learning landscape
- Is gender inequality in technology a good thing?
- 20 (some terrifying) thought experiments on the future of AI
- New evidence that ‘gamification’ does NOT work
June 2017
- Fractious Guardian debate: Tech in schools – money saver or waster
- 10 recommendations on HE from OEB Mid-Summit (Reykjavik)
May 2017
- Philosophy of technology - Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Heidegger - technology is not a black box
- 10 uses for Amazon Echo in corporates
- AI moving towards the invisible interface
April 2017
- Scrap your company values... it's hubris
- Snapchat’s smart pivot into an AR company but is AR ready for learning?
- AI fail that will make you gag with disgust……
March 2017
February 2017
January 2017
- Elon Musk – the Bowie of Business
- Corbyn is right - proud that my fat cat pay campaign against the CIPD paid off
- The future of parenthood through AI – meet Aristotle Mattel's new parent bot
- First flirtations with Alexa (Amazon Echo)…. 10 interesting uses in learning
- AI isn’t a prediction, it’s happening. How fast - what do the experts say?
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December 2016
- 2016 was the smartest year ever
- Brains - 10 deep flaws and why AI may be the fix
- Bot teacher that impressed and fooled everyone
- Emotional Intelligence - don't waste your time - it's not a 'thing'
- Top 20 myths in education and training
- Why AI needs to drop the word ‘intelligence’
- Brexit & Higher ED – an opportunity - don’t panic life goes on
November 2016
- Obama’s last act – recommendations on AI in learning
- What's best in online learning design - 1st or 3rd person?
- Weapons of 'Math' Destruction - sexed up dossier on AI?
- Lo and behold - Herzog's meditation on the internet
- 20 ways AI will affect managers – why are HR & L&D so out of touch?
- AI tutors have real impact in skills training
- AI will decimate jobs – all the more reason to use it in education
October 2016
- 10 reasons why 'Leaderboards suck in learning
- Trump tragedy has its roots in The Apprentice and Leadership BS
- Response to Stephen Downes on 'diversity'
- 10 inconvenient truths that show ‘diversity’ as wrong-headed
- Collaborative AI is learning from shared experience – collective intelligence is here and it’s terrifying
- 7 reasons why teachers believe, wrongly, in ‘Learning Styles’
- Century of AI in the movies. Can you name one that is not dystopian?
- Amazon’s amazing algorithms – what can we learn from them?
September 2016
- Education – Blair’s poisonous legacy
- Why I got married on Blockchain and paid by Bitcoin
- Could AI composed music win a Grammy?
- 10 deep dive questions to ask about LEARNERS before you start
August 2016
- 28 ways to make your e-learning totally suck
- 7 weird ways the porn industry leads in VR (and what we can learn from it)
- 10 ways to get started with VR in learning – a primer
- 7 FAILS in the way we practice 'failure' in learning
- 5 levels of FAILURE used to succeed in learning
- Little tribute to Tim Berners-Lee from the learning community
- 40,000 years ago media was 3D - it’s making a comeback
- Baudrillard – virtual reality philosopher
- Harvard Business Review: Disastrous diversity training doesn’t work, drop it…
- 10 ways BOTS can be used in learning
- Seymour Papert – Logo, Lego and constructionism - RIP
July 2016
- Will Pokemon Go and other AI/VR/AI apps kill the iFad (sorry iPad)?
- Love this VR of a classroom lesson - 7 uses that really takes you there
- 10 ways Pokemon Go portends AR in learning
- Could AI replace teachers? 10 ways it could?
- 10 important things AI teaches us about ‘learning’
June 2016
- AI builds e-learning at 10% of cost, in minutes not months, with higher retention and recall
- AI builds e-learning at 10% of cost, in minutes not months, with higher retention and recall
- What does Brexit mean for EdTech?
- What does Brexit mean for education?
- Data analytics in HE – 7 examples of why the real data is ignored
- Data analytics in HE – 7 examples of why the real data is ignored
- Has the old 'graphics-text-graphics-text-MCs had its day? Evidence that effortful, open-response learning much better
- 10 fundamental ways voice recognition could change learning
- Amazon’s amazing workplace learning project
May 2016
- Leadership BS - why the leadership industry is a Ponzi scheme
- 7 ways to Square the African Circle (E-learning Africa)
- Why the tablets in schools debacle is over
- 20 unorthodox public speaking (DO & DON'T) tips
April 2016
March 2016
- One book on learning that every teacher, lecturer & trainer should read (7 reasons)
- I’m a 'storyteller' – yawn!
- Amazing, mind-blowing ‘people’ possibilities in VR and AR
- Social media as powerful method of learning – the evidence
- Forget LEGO: Minecraft & open-source AI heralds new era for kids
- Will Amazon be the `Netflix’ of learning?
- Remember this date – 12 02 2012 - the day our species lost to AI - but won
- 7 questions you need to know answers to on legalities of ‘data’ in education
- 10 PERSONALISED learning ideas
- The LMS is dead, long live the LMS! (10 pros & 10 cons)
February 2016
- Completion a category mistake in MOOCs
- MOOCs: course completion is wrong measure
- AI maths app that students love and teachers hate
- World is 3D, learning should be 3D: 3 BIG reasons why VR should be used in learning
- We have fetishised 'Leadership', we're all leaders now, rendering the word meaningless
- 10 powerful results from Adaptive (AI) learning trial at ASU
- 10 ways AI can go wrong: artificial intelligence v artificial stupidity
- 10 ways MOOCs have forced Universities into a rethink
- Race against the machine in learning ‘jobs’
- Unified theory of ‘learning’ emerges – and it’s mind blowing
- Microsoft’s massive Turing test – are AI teachers on the horizon?
- Learning Technologies 16; the flat, the sharp & 7 things I would like to have seen
- Is this the best piece of online learning ever?
- Kids Company – perfect storm of British Amateurism
- Micro-learning: trend, fad or retred?
January 2016
- UK L&D is about to be hit with a big hit on their budget. Are you prepared?
- Go Google Go! Why CogTech is the new frontier in learning
- Khan's HOLES IN CHEESE trounces Mitra’s HOLES IN WALLS , as he talks about mastery & motivation
- Why so few women in 2500 years of learning theory?
- 10 ways online learning could make you a BETTER TEACHER
- Deep learning just got deeper – writing on blackboard for some forms of teaching?
- 10 things you really need to know about READING ON SCREEN for effective online design
- 5 level taxonomy of AI in learning (with real examples)
- 10 reasons why 2015 is the year of the MOOC
- Can of Stella with Sir John Daniel - he's as radical as ever
- 10 things BLENDED LEARNING is NOT
- Times tables – the phony, proxy war between traditionalists and progressives
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December 2015
- An AI online tool that students really do use to gets results
- Thiel – Higher Education a bubble?
- Downes & Siemens - Connectivists & MOOC men
- 10 ways to get the best from your SMEs
- 10 text layout FAILS in online learning
- 10 great takeaways from Online Educa in Berlin
- 7 ways agile tech can help refugee crises
November 2015
- 10 top INTERFACE design rules for online learning
- Will AI decimate the legal profession? Will we care?
- End of the road for driving?
- 25 amazing uses of VR in healthcare
October 2015
- 10 examples of how HR gets bored and turns to Ponzi schemes
- Mitra’s SOLE – 10 reasons on why it is ‘not even wrong’
- Tech v teaching: it's a dialectic not a war
- 10 examples of how ‘DEVICE fetish’ is ruining EdTech
- Chomsky on education & learning – curiously utopian and elitist?
- 10 ways to avoid snafus in WEBINARS
- Does Higher Education need a Reformation?
- Devlearn – Leaving Las Vegas
September 2015
- 10 uncomfortable truths about the con that is University rankings
- 10 x 10 lists on common mistakes in online learning
- 10 Corbyn education policies that actually make good sense
- 10 ways to make badass INTROs in online learning (& ditch dull learning objectives)
- Hattie: Visible learning - the naked teacher - a primer
- 10 sound pieces of advice on use of AUDIO in online learning
- 10 essential points on use of (recall not recognition) open-response questions
August 2015
- 10 bloody good reasons for using much-maligned text in online learning
- 10 top online learning writing rules and the psychology behind them
- Top 10 stupid mistakes in design of Multiple Choice questions
- 7 ways women are ignored in education from Jane Roland Martin
- Kohlberg's moralising and its revival - character education
- Understanding Carol Dweck - queen of growth mindsets
- John Gatto: the best teacher in New York who walked out on 'schooling'
- Why Salman Khan is a more important educational theorist & practitioner than Ken Robinson or Sugata Mitra
July 2015
- The Joy of Sex – my joyless journey into sex and tech
- ASU wants to be a new sort of University and they're getting there
- Greece – how does its education system fare? (It's not good)
- Chief Happiness Officers – send in the clowns?
- Apprenticeship levy: 8 potential pitfalls but it's a game changer
- Buddha (6th and 5th C BC) - monasticism & mindfulness
- VR v AR: the new Battle for reality
- Teachbots - are Robot Teachers are inevitable?
June 2015
- All of the Above – 20 ways to cheat MULTIPLE CHOICE questions
- School of Athens: explains a lot about modern schooling?
- Eurozzzzone - a giant squeezyjet, tax-funded, city-break, gravy train
- 10 Oculus Touch ideas that bring VR within reach of learners. Let’s do it!
- ‘The Strange Case of Rachel Doleza’: why diversity training does more harm than good
- 3 fallacies about exaggerated teacher impact in education (Pasi Sahlberg)
- School Governors: confused, untrained, and unloved. What to do?
- Viral selfie sparks debate about culture of academe
- Latin: 10 reasons why it should NOT be taught in schools
- Do bullies have low self-esteem or a surplus of esteem & narcissism? Why I changed my mind
- Does Higher Education really cause economic growth?
- 7 reasons why kids right to have gone apeshit over this GCSE maths question
- Is research-driven teaching in HE proven or doing more harm than good?
- WISE in Qatar (think again) – thousands slaughtered for a kick-about?
- Let’s ban the word ‘creative’ in education….
May 2015
- 7 reasons why I'm not surpised that Lego is failing and sacking 1400 staff...
- Education not the panacea for all economic problems
- Deficit model in education: a dangerous conceit?
April 2015
- 'Strategic Management' Prof goes apeshit at class but can't see that he's the problem
- Well, well, well: ‘wellness’ blogger lied about having terminal cancer
- Does gamification play Pavlov with learners? 10 DOs & 10 DON'Ts
- Myers-Briggs – a useless ponzi scheme?
- VR and consciousness – some truly freakish ideas
- Will Apple be biggest watch company in the world?
- 7 secrets you may not know about TED talks
- Sir Ken Robinson: ‘Creative’ with the truth?
- Don’t follow leaders. follow tweeters! Twitter as CPD
- Get a Life, not a Coach
March 2015
- Martha Lane Fox's Dimbleby idea: DOT.EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A PONY....
- The fake 'Wellness' cult in education & the workplace
- 10 reasons why ‘Hands up…’ teaching kills learning….
- Finland’s greatest export isn’t education; it’s Angry Birds!
- 10 reasons: Why we need to kill boring ‘learning objectives’!
- Mortenson’s 'Three Cups of Bullshit'
- Finland to scrap subject teaching
- Primary pupils banned from viewing eclipse on religious grounds - here's why
- 10 surprising things that education can learn from Netflix?
- Seriously. What can we learn from the dildo & vibrator about tech?
- BBC’s Micro Bit: useful gadget or more school junk
- Students get free accommodation, seniors get company
- Forget 21st Century skills - revive 18th Century skills
- Virtual Reality 'Game of Thrones' on Vive's stunning rival to Oculus
February 2015
- What can we learn from the Million dollar teacher?
- Holy shit – swearing in conference presentations works!
- The problem with Maths is ‘English’ - 'twenty' examples
- Only 60% attend lectures & plummets across semester & week – and that’s at Harvard!
- Finland - more myths on teachers, class sizes and selection
January 2015
- 10 tests that expose Blended Learning as actually Blended ‘Teaching’
- Boko Haram (Western Education is sinful) a look behind the slogan
- Why Finland is finished as role model in education
- YouTube to deliver VR? Watch this 3D space
- One thing that could transform education - apprenticeships
- Homework – we should ban the word but not the idea... I'd rename it...
- Nicky Morgan – sheep in sheep’s clothing
- Character education stays 'in character' poorly researched, conservative nonsense
- Catastrophic language learning in the UK – is online part of the answer?
- Deep Learning – forget meat brains this is the Age of Algorithms
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December 2014
- Bogus quotes and graphs used in learning conferences
- My tech prediction for 2015 - two small letters…
- 'Wellington College" Festival of Education? I think not.
- Why are the Maths Zealots in our schools?
- How to outguess Multiple Choice Tests
- VR is a medium not a gadget: 7 learning principles that work in VR
- Why Online Educa Berlin is just so damn much fun!
- Oculus Rift: consumer release – what & when?
- 10 mind-blowing Oculus Rift experiments in education
November 2014
- TV is dying
- Tops Bestseller lists, global media superstar, on Band Aid single (but can’t sing) & you’ve probably never heard of him
- Oculus Rift: Freezers, smilers, grippers, swayers, screamers and freak-outs – resistance is futile
- 7 traits of online graduates that trump campus colleagues
- Employers see strong potential in MOOCs - new research
October 2014
September 2014
- MOOC physics students outperform campus students
- Spaced-practice: FREE White Paper & 10 practical ways to make it happen
- Jeff Haywood: stunning analysis of the future of online in HE (MOOCs etc)
- ResearchED conference: blast of fresh air
- Tristram Hunt: if it looks like a duck...
August 2014
- Neophobia (fear of the new) - not new but it's damn annoying
- Must watch freakout: 10 reasons why Facebook is good for Oculus Rift
July 2014
- 10 researched tips to produce great video in learning (some will surprise you)
- Leadership: the weasel word that led to bad management
- MOOC points from my son, a real learner
- 6 reasons why we don't need ‘mentors’
June 2014
- What does the learning game have to learn from football? Data matters...
- Africa - the mobile continent
- From Rift Valley to Oculus Rift (7 lessons learnt at eLearning Africa)
May 2014
- 10 DOs & DON’Ts in MOBILE LEARNING - Game of Phones
- Educational research largely useless - no costs, no bite
April 2014
- ‘Mindfulness’ yet another mindless fad in education
- 20 reasons why Stanford Prof thinks video lectures self-evidently better
- MOOCs: Coursera moves towards massive revenues on certification
- MOOCs: Research (Duke) shows employers love ‘em
- Anders Ericsson: practice, practice, practice
- 10 vital MARKETING QUESTIONS in online learning
March 2014
- Futurelearn’s Web Science MOOC - likes, dislikes
- Moses issues 10 Commandments on eLearning (on tablets)
- Why Facebook bought Oculus Rift? World at its feet, now has worlds on its head
- Chinese teachers drug pupils to get bonuses
- Gang-of-four’s Serious eLearning manifesto – all a bit melodramatic?
- Flipped reading – 7 reasons why reading just got super-fast
- Gang-of-four proclaim Serious eLearning Manifesto. You can’t be serious?
- Miracle of mobiles delivers cued spaced-practice (ENCORE)
- Horizon Scanning – bears really do shit in the wood
- Why ‘Talent Management’ is a sham
February 2014
- Amazing 3D phone from Google (Kinect in a phone)
- Imperial’s Debra Humphries hits bum note on MOOCs
- MOOC Factory – boy was I impressed
- Boom! First pure online degrees get through QAA review
- Year of Code boss Lottie Dexter is a car crash. Is coding the new Latin?
- EdX's MOOCman Anant Agarwal loves hype!
- Wearables: Frictionless learning (5 Levels of wearable learning)
January 2014
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December 2013
- MOOCs: Adoption curve explains a lot
- MOOCs How ‘open’ are they? (7 dimensions)
- MOOCs: Education (not information) wants to be free
- 10 big reasons for rise of corporate MOOCs
- MOOCfest in Berlin
- MOOCs: the C***** word is the problem!
- Maths curriculum: full of howlers & schoolboy errors
November 2013
- Student loans: an omnishambles - why we should all worry
- MOOCs: where next? 7 strategic ways forward
- MOOCs: 7 killer reasons for choosing EdX
- 10 reasons why I am NOT a Social Constructivist
- Big Data – bums on seats measures wrong end of learner
- Big data: Ten level taxonomy in learning
- When Big Data goes bad: 6 epic fails
- WISE 2013 – Reinventing education
- MOOCs – the flipped University?
October 2013
- Oculus Rift: learning machine that will blow your mind!
- Armando Pisani: the pioneer who holds the key to immediate increases in school attainment?
August 2013
July 2013
- Wikipedia Zero – mobile as lifeline to learning
- Good, bad and ugly: 7 critics of social media
- Cambodia: what do you do when all teachers are killed?
June 2013
- MOOCSs: 20 ways to monetise
- African MOOCs: unlocking a billion more brains
- E-learning Africa – 7 new narratives
- Negroponte hacks off Africa
- More holes in Sugata Mitra’s ‘Hole-in-Wall’ project
May 2013
- Report on 6 MOOCs turns up 10 surprises
- Futurelearn MOOC: 10 Qestions: When, who, what, cost, funding, courses, look, pedagogy?
- MOOC on Human-Computer Interaction: videos have 7 fails in HCI
- Education Debate: Bun fight with Baker, Benn, rosen & Gibb
- MOOCs: old narratives v new narrative - open, scalable, diverse & relevant
- MOOCs: Kick ass on final assessment
April 2013
- MOOCs: more action in 1 year than last 1000 years
- MOOCs: Who’s using MOOCs? 10 different target audiences
- MOOCs: a breath of fresh air, albeit the same air
- MOOCs: taxonomy of 8 types of MOOC
- Latin: Mary Beard and why it has no place in core curricula
- Malaysia: Chromebook/cloud provision for 10 million! (not taking the tablets)
- Keep on taking the tablets: 7 reasons why this is lousy advice
March 2013
- 7 researched ways 'tablets' can inhibit learning
- Tablet madness: Would Amplify pass a CRB check? And hideous tablet for women
- Top Ten Mistakes in eLearning
- Google Glass: 7 amazing uses in learning
- Negroponte: 10 reasons why his Ethiopian project smacks of Educational Colonialism
- 10 reasons to leave them to their own devices - BYOD
- Sugata Mitra: Slum chic? 7 reasons for doubt
February 2013
- Too cool for school: 10 reasons why tablets should NOT be used in education
- Sperling: most important man you’ve maybe never heard of in online learning
- Prensky: game on - digital natives, immigrants and aliens
- Nielsen: When online goes bad - Flash 99% bad, eyetracking data, bad internal search
- Norman: tech should be 'invisible' in learning
- Mosquitos and turtles: how to fund great education projects
- Google: first MOOP (Massive Online Open Pedagogy)
- Jane Hart: Me Jane ‘tools and social media guru’ in the learning jungle!
- Paleo-porn at the British Museum?
- 7 ideas on how ‘online technology’ can save the NHS
- Csikszentmihalyi – don’t go with the ‘flow’!
January 2013
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December 2012
- Wikis – wickedly clever, underused learning tool
- City & Guilds acquire Kineo - a meeting of minds (2+2=5)
- The Big Debate – Berlin Educa - ban diplomas and degrees!
November 2012
- Jay Cross: informal learning guru
- Roger Schank: Only two things wrong with education: 1) What we teach; 2) How we teach
- Postman (1931-2003): Amusing ourselves to death
- Think tanks - 10 rules of techn-ology
- McLuhan (1911-1980): medium is message - Gutenburg to Zuckerberg
October 2012
- Twitter: in learning less is more
- Blogs: vastly underused teaching and learning tool
- Do the maths: 7 reasons why the obsession with maths doesn’t add up
- 3D printers: gimmick or game changer? Next big thing or expensive way to produce lots of ‘small, useless, plastic things’?
- Values as ‘crap acronyms’?
- Calculators: Education stuck in pre-calculator age
- Radio education: huge and hugely underestimated
September 2012
- Flipped learning: training got there first with flipcharts!
- Lecterns: technology of teaching or preaching?
- Punishers – weird technology of punishment in schools
- Manuscripts and the collapse of learning
- From stone axe to mobile: hand-held learning
- IDI – 7 reasons why online degree students outperform University campus-based students
June 2012
- SCHOLAR: most successful e-learning project you’ve never heard of
- Swivl: your personal cameraman – dream device
- Video assessment and certification: Italian ingenuity
May 2012
- Raspberry Pi: 7 reasons why it won’t work
- Kirkpatrick 4-levels of evaluation: Happy sheets? Surely past its sell-by date?
- Gardner Multiple Intelligences or school subjects mirrored?
- Eysenck (1916-1997) Bad ass of assessment?
- Honey & Mumford All styles no substance?
- Fleming VAKuous learning styles?
April 2012
- Bandler NLP: No Longer Plausible: training’s shameful, fraudulent cult?
- Seligman (1942 - ) Pied-piper of ‘positive’ psychology but at expense of realism?
- Calvin (1509-1564) teachers as preachers, sin and the deficit model of schooling
- Maslow (1908 - 1970) Hierarchy of needs. 5 or 7 levels? Useful or useless?
- Bloom (1913-1999) one e-learning paper you must read plus his taxonomy of learning
- Kolb - Experience & learning: a 4 stage cycle, also learning styles (doomed to succeed!)
- Gagne (1916 - 2002) Universal recipe for learning (9 steps)
- Mager – Mr learning objectives. In this course you will…..yawn, yawn!
- Kandel (1929 - ) Nobel Prize winning learning theorist
- Tulving (1927 - ) Cue memory: episodic & semantic memories and, encoding
- Baddeley (1934) complexity of ‘working’ memory
- Atkinson & Shiffrin - three-stage model of memory (sensory, STM, LTM)
- Miller (1920 - ) Magic number 7 plus & minus 2 - chunking
- Ignatius (1401-1556) Jesuit zeal, Latin and child-abuse
- Black & Wiliam Don’t praise the child! Formative feedback is key to better learning.
- White (1934 - ) What is education for? Autonomy
- Illich (1926-2002) deschooling – school as the ‘new Church’
- Freire (1921-1997) educator & activist
- Steiner (1861-1925) mysticism, three 7 year stages & eurythmics
- Rogers (1902 - 1987) teaching as facilitator
- Erikson (1902 – 1994) lifelong identity crises, 8 stages
- Freud (1856 – 1923) therapy culture lives despite being debunked
- Bandura (1925 - ) – Bobo dolls, aggression, mirror neurons & video
- Skinner (1904-1990) – radical behaviourism, teaching machines & pigeon guided missile
- Thorndike (1874 – 1949) – experimental rigour, transfer and why Latin is a waste of time
- Pavlov (1849-1936) education goes to the dogs & the dark side
- Bruner (1915-2016 ) constructivist scaffolder
- Vygotsky (1896-1934) - social construction, mediation, ZPD, language, play & special needs
March 2012
- Piaget (1896-1980) – ages and stages - but mostly bad science
- Althusser (1918-1990) – schools as ISAs and filters for class and labour
- Habermas (1929- ): ideology, action but lost on new media
- Gramsci (1891-1937) – hegemony, intellectuals and informal learning
- Marx (1818-1883) – education for all but the educated became the enemy
- Dewey (1859 - 1952) – practical, problem-based learning
- James (1842-1910) – father of modern psychology, develop habits, learn by doing
- Mohammed (570AD –632AD) - books, recitation, memorisation and writing
- Jesus (7–2 BC to 30–36 AD) - parables, sermons but also dreaded lectures
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) – original & radical
- Rousseau (1712-1778) – prickly, paranoid, noble savage
- Locke (1632-1704) –motivation, habit, practice - sceptical on schools & arts
- Aristotle (384-322 BC) – science, music and Golden Mean
- Plato (428-348 BC) – lifelong learning, 3Rs, mind & body but ban fiction!
- Socrates (469-399 BC) - method man
- Blog marathon: 50 blogs on learning theorists over next 50 days
February 2012
- Listen up – audio a massive boost for learning
- 7 good reasons for slashing University PGCE teacher training courses
- Professor Alison Wolf – a wolf in wolf’s clothing!
January 2012
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December 2011
November 2011
- 21st Century Skills are so last century!
- Learnt to ride a bike from a single sentence in a book!
- UK e-learning companies in rude health? A rude review!
- Education’s a slow learner (lessons from WISE 2011)
- Going online way forward for education says Gordon Brown
- Flippin’ heck –is the whole of education doing things backwards?
October 2011
- When apprenticeships go bad (7 fails)
- 7 reasons why Siri could be a breakthrough in e-learning
- 7 compelling arguments for peer learning
- Only one thing lacking in Educating Essex – education!
- Facebook saved my sanity - remarkable story of Jan Morgan
- 7 reasons to put heads in 'cloud' e-learning
September 2011
- 7 reasons why Kafka would have loved assessment
- Higher Education? Myths, mantras, illusions and delusions by Hacker & Dreifus
- Brilliant student tool that saves tons of time
August 2011
- 7 ways education contributes to rioting?
- Vorderman on maths – reactionary TV presenter, no maths degree, debt & property scammer advises us on maths!
- Education at its very best - Brighton Rocks!
- George Siemens - if social media goes so does connectivism
July 2011
- Learning Technologies & LWF (2+2=5)
- NOTW just surface story– real story is tectonic shift to web
- L&D as ‘curators’? Doesn't ring true...
- Millie the social networking teacher
- Never praise a child
- 7 reasons why 'marking' sucks
June 2011
- Social media & learning – note taking on steroids
- Sexual abuse, e-learning and the Vatican - just plain weird
- 7 objections to social media in learning (and answers)
May 2011
- ‘Body and brain’ sensor-based learning – mind blowing
- 15 reasons to BAN pens and pencils from the classroom
April 2011
- Is Higher Education a classic bubble? 7 reasons to think so
- Why Royal Wedding is lethal for young girls
- Tony Buzan, true or false?
- Diversity training damned in new study
March 2011
- E-portfolios – 10 reasons why I don’t want my life in a shoebox
- Flip the classroom - every teacher should do this
- Leaning tower of PISA – 10 serious skews and flaws
- Middle East: revolutions without revolutionaries
- I'm a Celebrity let me fix your education system!
February 2011
- Best physics lecturer ever dismissed physics lectures
- Latin: makes learning a new language MORE difficult!!
- 10 reasons to NOT teach Latin (reductio ad absurdum)
January 2011
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December 2010
- 10 lessons learnt at WISE in Doha
- Clickers: mobile technology that will work in classes
- Whiteboards: the white stuff or black holes?
November 2010
- Does CIPD CEO deserve £87K bonus? Personnel Today survey NO 94%, YES 6%!
- Skype learning – 7 great benefits
- NLP: scientific paper suggests it’s a “pseudoscience” that should be “mothballed”
- Fees: blame 'clubby' Universities
- CIPD: CEO Jackie Orme on £400k salary, £85k bonus for failure
- E-learning Age Awards - dressed to skill!
October 2010
- Big Debate at BAFTA: Training departments increasingly part of the problem, not the solution
- Teachers TV: dead at last
- Toxic tsunami of student debt
- Universities: Focus on fees wrong
- The Social Network – what’s it really about?
- 7 tactics for training in recession
- Laura overton is tireless campaigner so
- Stanford High School's faceless learning
- Faceless schools?
September 2010
August 2010
- Want to read a thriller on 'training'?
- North Korea - educational holocaust
- Gates on learning
- Google Goggles – mind goggling application
July 2010
- Fat or obese?
- CIPD accused of incompetence in Telegraph
- $35 iPad for education
- CIPDs Jackie Orme issues grovelling apology & pulls report
- Robot teachers – endlessly patient, CPD updates in seconds
- UFI/Learndirect - reports of death greatly exaggerated
- UFI/Learndirect - reports of death greatly exaggerated
- Depressing survey of L&D
June 2010
- OU the key to future of HE?
- PE in schools is limited, sporadic and often not fit for purpose
- El Presidente of CIPD replies with absurd fat cat defence
- CIPD – tale of a fake fatcat
- Game-based, social networking in learning?
- Malcolm Tucker of e-learning – me?
- Funny exam answers
May 2010
- 10 techniques to massively increase retention
- Traci Sitzman - happy sheet killer
- 10 ways to keep courses short
- Donkeypedia – dumb ass idea
- Eurozzzzzzzzone
- Short primer on post-election education and training?
- Why I'm bored with F2F apologists!
- Future of learning – mind boggling
- University of Cumbria: the perfect storm
- Salon debate: What are Universities for?
March 2010
February 2010
- Snooze and learn
- Learning Styles - final nail in coffin?
- Up in The Air – movie for Boomer airheads
- iPAD: a baby boomer, narrative device
January 2010
- iPAD: ergonomic disaster – end of story
- Beware of the happy campers
- 10 reasons why I don’t have a mobile
- Hedge your BETTs – the 7 paradoxes of technology in education
- Is education 'blinded’ by snow?
- Massive increase in words consumed
- Scrap staffrooms - real example, it works
- Gross errors pass as 'research'
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December 2009
November 2009
- A-level playing field looking patchy
- E-learning Age Awards
- INSET days – 7 reasons to scrap them
- Gardner's 'Multiple Intelligences' seductive nonsense?
October 2009
- BBC Bitesize - stupid, lazy GCSE questions
- Piaget – why teach this stuff?
- Future is free
- Web makes you smarter - UCLA study
- Universities - recorded lectures better than live
- Scotch myths in education
- Universal Universities?
- Handheld Learning - Malcolm Maclaren et al
- Cameron: bonfire of educational quangos
September 2009
- Zero face-to-face learning works
- University of the People
- eBook for every child
- CRB checks – overkill or overdue?
- Google: The Last Library
August 2009
- Digital Britain points to present and past, not future
- Extreme learning - learn from an autistic savant
- Fat heads: obesity and technology
- John Hughes RIP
- Sue Palmer - reply to reply
July 2009
- Sue Palmer - Toxic moraliser
- Teen report goes bonkers
- Universities - empty vessels
- Coffee - its role in learning as wonderdrug and social stimulus
- Why schools are divisive
- Sean Bailey - talking Tory tornado
- OFSTED's own Xena the Warrior Princess
June 2009
- £20 million down same old drain
- Education’s dark duplicitous secret
- Digital Britain: Carter's charter for luvvies & lawyers
- Martha Lane-Fox - digital exclusion tzar!
- Why I’m sick of Stephen Fry
- Learning Waves from Google
- Work versus school experience
- Biggest classroom in world?
May 2009
- Revolting students
- Mobile learning saves lives
- Gov+creative agency = condom disaster
- When education's an evil
- Exploding goats and e-learning
April 2009
- Weird finger test for Gen Y
- Is ‘Digital inclusion’ actually exclusive?
- Sex and accountancy
- Digital Britain - Drool Brittania
- E-learning reaping rewards of recession
- Tired of tools talk?
- 10 reasons for death of cinema
- Montenegran E-learning adventure
March 2009
- Brilliant 35 studies in media and learning
- Amazing learning styles research
- Geek moms, Techmamas and Blogher
- Omidreza Mirsayafi
- Department of Health games howler
- Brain has traffic lights for memories
- 7 reasons why HR is no home for learning
- Carol Twigg's research on reducing drop-out rates through e-learning
- Carol Twigg's research on effective learning through e-learning
- Carol Twigg's resarch on cost effectiveness of e-learning
- Favourite e-learning research
- Mind reading and learning
- Teacher training tantrums
- Social networking is not networking
- Rocket Science? Not even science!
- Wonderful 'learning designer' pen portrait
- 'Pupils better than teachers with ICT' says Ofsted
- The Class – a class act
- Slumdog e-learning
- Brain Rules - John Medina
February 2009
- Head of Digital Engagement -old disengaged duffer wanted
- Sector Skills Councils don’t have the skills
- Susan Greenfield - science and snobbery
- Singularity University - the twilight zone
- Anatomy of a classroom: think out of the box
- E-learning a winner in US Stimulus Bill
- Can ‘skills’ be learnt online?
- Memory games
- Google Latitude - the wonders of Social Co-location
- Lumiar leads learning by doing
- Forget Sarah Palin, DeLorenzo's the real deal
- $10 laptop - India leads the way
January 2009
- Spaced practice in learning - at last!
- Games result in real learning
- Dinosaurs do not give birth to gazelles
- People are our greatest asset (and liability)
- Olympics: hubris of participation and education
- LearningPool – sink or swim
- Dark cloud ahead?
- Why the web is the real pedagogic engine
- Parodies of corporate logos (LOL)
- Libraries are barriers to reading
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December 2008
- Spooky quiz - try it
- Cognitive overload – why we’re in the forgetting not learning game
- Teacher sacked for saying santa doesn't exist
- Pedagogy – faddish, non-empirical and lopsided
- Pearson’s new Fronter - good news for e-learning
- Credit crunch survival guide
- Going out ain't social
- Is an audience of one a lecture?
November 2008
- 'Aspirational' not inspirational teachers
- Leadership training – cause of credit crunch?
- Mozart effect – a requiem
- The Ambassadors – look and learn
- Comedy e-learning awards
- Mind games for christmas
- Rapid tools: more bubble machine than bubble
- Moogle takes off!
- All of the Above - how to cheat Multiple Choice questions
- Email makes road sign
- Sex in Second Life ruining marriages
- Best 'Rapid' software ever!
- Did McCain have better learning policies?
- Obama: e-President
- Conferences – jumped up classrooms?
- Do bullies have low self-esteem or a surplus of esteem & narcissism? Why I changed my mind
October 2008
September 2008
- Nudges and learning
- Leadbetter's 21 Ideas for 21st Century Learning
- txtng (the gr8 db8)
- Poor Procurement Produces Piss Poor Performance
- Parent? Learning professional? Watch this...
- Zimbardo - harrowing but relevant video
- Banks, junkies and methodone training
July 2008
- Augmented learning – mind blowing!
- Diplomas – deepening the divide
- Hapless Huveaux
- Best show you’ve never seen?
June 2008
- 2 marks for swearing!
- Jay Z mash-up
- 7 'bad language' habits in learning
- Politicians and e-learning
- Boomers on wrong side of digital divide
- Immersive games beats classroom in maths
- Rate My Professors - Professors Strike Back
- Storytelling sucks
- Learning Light snuffed out
- 10 curriculum changes
- Classrooms, Computers and Confucius in China
- Learnish - the language of learning
- 10 reasons not to use Second Life in learning
- In lectures, no one can hear you dream
- UCL on iTUNES
- 10 ‘tyrannies of time’ in learning
May 2008
- Reading to your children makes no difference
- Learning may be bad for us
- One policy to massively increase school results
- Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
- $75 laptop breakthrough
- Damn fine feedback
- You're Wii too fat!
- Amazing 1954 prediction
- Computers - masculine or feminine?
- Training video - funny as hell
- Boring lecture interrupted by singing student
- Working memory down from 5-9 to 3-4
- $50 whiteboard - honestly
- 10 facts about learning that are scientifically proven and interesting for teachers
- Baby boomers v GenX/Y: Public v private behaviour
- V-learning - just do it!
April 2008
March 2008
- BA, BAA….. BANG!
- CIPD's Astronomical salary for Armstrong
- BA training fiasco
- NUTcases
- CIPD - Chartered Institute for the Prevention of Development
- Best short lecture ever?
- Swearing at the queen
- Conference revolt
- Branding, learning and government
- Much Ado About Nothing
February 2008
- BBC Jam - bloody mess
- MIT Search across and within lectures
- Blackboard
- Narrow minded diversity training
- OpenLearn – another document dump
- Wherefore art thou M-learning?
- Buzz
January 2008
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December 2007
- Jammin!
- Are we outsourcing our memory?
- Christmas turkeys
- 10 reasons to dump lectures
- Broken break-out habit
- 500 reasons why I hate the office
- Marx and e-learning
- Keen’s fascist outburst
November 2007
October 2007
- Problem with maths - maths teachers
- Numeracy - counts for little
- Talent management - rum business
- Complaince killing training
- Blackpool
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
- ARG! TV infected by web
- Puzzles and productivity
- Video test
- Does Futuremedia have a future?
- Bogus training graphs
- Stuff and stuffiness
- Everything is Miscellaneous
- Metacrap – the metadata myth
- Google blog search
- Ecoach
- Click and learn
- Online Communities Map
- Milblog wins Blooker Prize
- Judith Harris - parents matter less than you think
- More Dark Deeds at Learning Light
- Get a Life, not a Coach
- Gladwell - abolish school staff rooms
- Computer Games reduce obesity!
- LearningLight spontaneously combusts
- How do I get to Carnegie Hall?
April 2007
- ‘Drink and snog’ mobile phone game
- Ode to Cologne
- Habitual learning (h-learning)
- Elgg on Blackboard’s face
- Naked organisations
- Happiness is dumbing-up
- Cool learning
- Electronic hoodies and Gutter geeks
March 2007
- Web 2.0 Award Winners
- Google calendar and learning
- Stick learning
- Education - bad theatre
- TIME waits for no man
- Mobile phone novels
- Why I love PLEs and hate VLEs (or LMSs)
- Web 2.0 - who's doing what?
- Turtles and Fruit flies
- BBC Jam, £75 million for what?
- Coaching –panacea or placebo?
- BBC Jam axed
- Web 2.0 bites business
- Multitasking mahem!
- Constructivism – beware of big words
- NLP – No Longer Plausible
- Heard of Eric Kandel?
- Open simulations or page-turners?
- Arch debunker – me!
- Maslow – who needs him!
February 2007
- What were the Top 5 Global Brands last year?
- Video games save lives
- Libraries - in terminal decline
- TheirSpace
- Videogames improve eyesight
- Stickiness
- YouLearn