When do you stop learning?
Most of us can map aspects of our career trajectory and identify where our experiences led to developments. These experiences,
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Tag: Digital Learning
Curiosity in lifelong learning
My last post explored how learning is inherently prickly, filled with challenges and discomforts that drive personal and professional growth.
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Does the subject matter?
The last few years have seen a growing narrative around so-called “Mickey Mouse degrees,” with some suggesting that some university
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Prompts // 6 (Conscientious Commands)
I can’t seem to leave this alone, and this sixth post in the series on understanding and learning prompt engineering
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Prompts // 5 (Prompt Adaptation)
I wasn’t expecting this prompt-thing I’ve been doing to become a series of blog posts, let alone reach number five,
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Failure is not an option
What am I supposed to think when I, and many others, are telling our kids that to fail means there’s
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Games vs gamification
Lately, I’ve had the need to clarify, in my own mind, the difference between ‘game’ and ‘gamification’ (or ‘gamified learning’).
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What is normal?
Back in the year 2000 I used to work in Southampton, an internet start-up that was based in a converted
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Four years
My kids have grown up listening to me talk about universities, degrees, subject specialisms, education, learning, online learning, MOOCs, open-access
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Reading: Digital technology and the futures of education – towards ‘non-stupid’ optimism
Facer, K. and Selwyn, N. 2021 Digital technology and the futures of education – towards ‘non-stupid’ optimism. available from https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000377071
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