“The greatest enemy of communication is the illusion of it.”
William Whyte
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What I’m Listening to: I am enjoying Poolside.fm today, which came in the latest edition of Jeremy Caplan’s wondertools newsletter.
Last week’s most clicked item:
5 Behavioral Biases That Trip Up Remote Managers
The Future is Creation via Curation
it would take the fastest readers around 11 million years to read the current number of web pages on the internet and that number is growing by the second. In this article, Kazuki Nakayashiki explains how “As the Amount of Information Grows, So Does the Market for Content Curators”
https://medium.com/@kazuki_sf_/the-future-is-creation-via-curation-c73a9c65e258
How to Tap Memory Systems to Deepen Learning
Memorization can get a bad rap in education debates, conjuring images of mindless repetition or a “drill and kill” pedagogy. After all, why memorize something when we can look it up on our phone? But memory is inextricably tied to learning. “You don’t really really learn anything unless you have it in your long-term memory,”
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/58006/how-to-tap-memory-systems-to-deepen-learning
Planning for a Blended Future: A Research-Driven Guide for Educators
By thoughtfully and strategically considering design and technologies to create meaningful connectedness across distance through active learning pedagogies, real learning can be achieved. This guide moves beyond getting started with blended learning to help educators realize the best of online and onsite instruction and implement research-driven techniques to positively influence learning outcomes.
https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/tools/planning-for-a-blended-future/
Why Students Don’t Like School
Tom Sherrington praises Daniel Willngham’s book “Why Students Don’t Like School” by saying “there is no other single text that explores so comprehensively and clearly, the nature of learning and the challenges that students and teachers experience. The ideas in the book are certainly ideas that all teachers should know about and, in Willingham’s hands, you won’t find a better explanation of the learning problems that arise in schools and the solutions that we can pursue to overcome them.” This America Educator article is a great place to start learning more.
https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/WILLINGHAM%282%29.pdf
How to build an architecture of participation
Doug Belshaw documented a useful framework of 8 steps to help people cover all their bases when thinking about volunteering, contributing and facilitating communities.
EdTech Books
This is a collection of completely free textbooks by industry-leading professors and other experts. Head on over and take a look.
Podcasts
- What can L&D learn from product management? With Myle Runham and Sukh Pabial on the Mind Tools L&D Podcast
- What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About Work Culture with Greg Urban on the HBR podcast
- Killer Visual Strategies with Amy Balliet on the 356 Labs podcast
Tools & Tips
- Collect.chat is a slick (and easy) way to convert a Google Form into a chatbot
- Mega-Creator is a free, online graphic design tool by Icons8
- Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés.
- Doodle Icons are cool set of hand-drawn icons
- Front-end Toolbox is a collection of resources for illustrations, icons and other design items.
Where You Can Find Me
- Kansas City ATD – August 17
- Nashville ATD – Using Technology for Training – September 16
- New Jersey ATD – Future of Work – November 10
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