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GAMIFICATION – PLAYING AT (NOT) LEARNING

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For the most part, game playing aims at developing recall. Virtual Realities w/Active Role Plays as Real Time Events. Could be avatars as actors but roles and actions are true to life and specific to the client’ need. I’m not against jargon in general; shortcuts are good if they are pithy and have substance.

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The $125,000 Teacher – And Corporate Counterpart

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The Charter School – TEP, The Equity Project – makes the case that paying teachers a substantial salary, somewhat on par with (my words here) what a high level Instructional Designer or Learning & Development leader earns, will improve student test results. Or what we would call improved performance and employee effectiveness.

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NOW EVERYONE WINS: OVERCOMING GENERATION DIFFERENCES WHEN BUILDING LEARNING

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From that point discover, categorize and develop with some confidence the types of learning each would be most comfortable with then craft an overall rubric to be used when designing courseware for multi-age audiences. Looking around I did find an article where this conundrum was voiced. A Way to Look at Instruction with Generational Regard.

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Baking the Cookies: Hiring Learning Consultants to be Successful

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A smart recruiting firm and especially a smart organization should develop a checklist – it need not be biblical in length – but clear and focused that does the following: 1. Describes, in broad terms, the nature of the project. So…how to make sure working with a consultant will yield great results.

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TITHING FOR TEACHERS: FOR A LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE, A LIFETIME OF TANGIBLE THANKS

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That’s not an accusation that teachers as a group do not try to develop quality lessons nor are they deficient in humanity. Every year the numbers of ex-students enters the workforce and are added to the roles of possible ‘donors.’ Kind of like compound interest!

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The Learner, 70:20:10 and Customer Experience

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Traditional learning and development is about pushing out information. Companies measure each touchpoint in each channel against criteria in order to examine their process, develop standards and measures to improve customer service and contain their costs. Firstly, it’s important to clear off the Kirkpatrick levels.

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SCENARIOS ARE MINI DRAMAS…NOT A GLORIFIED Q & A.

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Only in the case of learning, it would mean meeting a challenge as a role player and by actions, words, and deeds, demonstrating competence in order to move ahead in the course. It would be similar to jumping into a movie while it’s being shown and working your way out again by uttering a magic word.