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Mobile Learning: day three – what do we mean by ‘mobile’?
Work is progressing this week on my new book on ‘mobile learning’. I’m sharing some sections as they are completed. Yesterday, we looked at augmented reality, today, part of the introduction, exploring...
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Can you future proof learning? An exercise in futility
Regular readers will have met Herman before. He is my 1964 Land Rover campervan. Herman is many things: fun, lively and likely to grab attention wherever i stop. He is also desperately unreliable and...
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What does the iPad mini mean for mobile learning?
The cost of a corporate hotel, train ticked and food for a day is not far off the cost of an iPad Mini, the new ‘lightweight’ tablet on sale today from Apple. And that’s pretty much all you need to...
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iPads in schools: production, consumption and collaboration
First day of the school year consisted of a trip to the Book room. Here, you were issued with a stack of textbooks, piled ever higher, that you would need over the coming year. Peeking over the top of...
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Understanding the Triumvirate of Mobile Learning
Mobile learning is about much more than just technology: it’s about a mindset, about a relationship between ‘people‘, ‘technology‘ and ‘subject‘ and how we maintain a balance between the three of them....
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Informal technology: social learning
Those who know me well are familiar with my tendency to anthropomorphise technology, to assign it with traits and personality: my car has a name and distinctly mischievous identity. Some technology is...
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Inequality: can we afford to leave anyone behind?
The thing about travelling is that it broadens your perspective, it gives you views you never had when you stood still. Whilst travelling by train through Europe at the weekend, a friend commented that...
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Learning technology: are we using it right?
Technology can be a great enabler for learning, but it’s not guaranteed to make us learn better. Used correctly, it can enhance, equalise and facilitate learning, used poorly it simply commands and...
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Social technology for social learning: Voxer and ScoopIt
Voxer is a neat App for smartphones: a walkie talkie function that lets you hold a ‘button‘ and record a message that is shared, immediately, with another person or group. You can share photos, with...
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Social learning for complex tasks: performance support is simple
I was uploading yesterday’s blog post on the train, when Hans leant over and said “why aren’t you using this function to add the links“, in a way that implied i was missing a trick, that implied that...
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What we can learn from a bike?
There is literally nothing that the Dutch won’t do with a bike. Here’s a short list of things i’ve seen people carrying around Amsterdam: the shopping, a large bunch of tulips, a dog in the wicker...
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Learning and working in the #SocialAge. Starting the journey
I’ve started writing today on my new book: it’s an exploration of the changing nature of learning and working in the Social Age. I’ve been working with my communities on Twitter and LinkedIn to develop...
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Whether to GoPro? Technology and creativity
I can buy technology, but i crave the experience. Does your learning technology facilitate experience?You may have seen the GoPro range of cameras? Small, lightweight, waterproof and rugged, they’re...
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Manifesto for the Social Age: A first draft of the narrative
I had two conversations yesterday that prompted me to think a little. I was talking about Social Leadership and Social Learning with Sarah, in the UK and Marissa in the US. There was a common narrative...
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Legacy, lethargy, and the need to be #agile
Only agile organisations will thrive in the Social Age, but the barriers to agility are multifold. Some attitudinal, some technical, some about capability and competence. Innovation and creativity are...
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Agile technology for Social learning
Technology in itself will never guarantee great learning, but deployed well, it can facilitate and enhance the storytelling and experiences that do. Many organisations struggle with dinosaur legacy...
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Exploring the Social Age of learning
We are in the Social Age of learning, where the bywords are agility and engagement, where formal experiences are less valuable than applied ones, where traditional models of authority and expertise are...
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Learning tribes
It’s been a good week: i’ve been in New York, working with a small team, sharing ideas and learning. Most of the sessions have been around leadership, with me trying to bring a perspective of the...
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The NET model for Social Leadership
I’m drawing together my ideas around Social Leadership to create a series of models and expand it into a book. Today i’m presenting a first draft of the top level model (i expect this to be the first...
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The core skills of the social leader: Explaining the NET Model
Having spent some time exploring the three Dimensions of social leadership, today, for the first time, I wanted to present the three Dimensions and nine components in full, as well as look at the...
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