Build a better flipchart and the world will beat a path…

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As everyone on this blog knows, I'm eternally searching for a flipchart killer and have never failed to express my disappointment with the trends most of us (including myself) think will: do the job, convince people that it's sufficiently worthwhile (in ... More »

Homeschooling and the Creative Class

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My son Slater was included in this week's BusinessWeek piece on home-schooling. Some nice phrases:, vowed he'd never put his kid through the eye-glazing lectures he endured in school done by a growing number of creative-class parents No longer the b... More »

Personalized Learning- Lessons from Tim, Pizza Hut and Betty

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Data can help personalization, but data is a means, not an end. I stumbled into a nice reminder of that. Tim Sanders, Leadership Coach at Yahoo delivered an interesting keynote at DigitalNow last year. Follow the link below to learn how the CEO of Pizza Hut and a... More »

OK, Now Let's Talk about Me!

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Well not about me. Let's talk about Learning Circuits Blog. In the Learning Circuits Blog Wiki, our current topic of discussion is LCB and its future. We've just finished a year of activity on LCB that saw increased publication by the author team, increased particip... More »

Honesty, Oprah, and the Formal Learning Industries

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The Oprah/James Frey conversation, the Enron trials, even a recent post here got me thinking. The Formal Learning Industries absolutely requires honesty, for Big Skills and technical ones. Honesty in the end-learner. Honesty in the subject matter exper... More »