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Lists are the enemy of learning!

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Finally we're all told to use 'To do' lists to 'improve our productivity'! Productive? Powerpoint or document, if it's in a bullet-pointed list your mind seems to go into a trance-like automatic state, 'must finish list' your mind repeats over and over! Only if that means no creativity!

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'Virtual/actual' reality - WonderMart

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I was then told about some of the ways supermarkets place products to attract purchases. I was also told to go to the freezer section, open a door (at which point background sound effects of a blizzard could be heard behind my guide's voice), pick up whichever product attracted me most, look at the packaging, place it back on the shelf.

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Touching the Earth Lightly - 10 thoughts for learning

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More effective learning = mastery of skills/knowledge + more control over their work + a clear purpose - which all in turn leads to better workplace productivity). Well, I'll make it simple, effective learning helps the learner perform more effectively in their work environment. So, let's now look at the title of this post.

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Touching the Earth Lightly - 10 thoughts for learning design

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More effective learning = mastery of skills/knowledge + more control over their work + a clear purpose - which all in turn leads to better workplace productivity). Well, I'll make it simple, effective learning helps the learner perform more effectively in their work environment. So, let's now look at the title of this post.

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Touching the Earth Lightly - 10 thoughts for learning design

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More effective learning = mastery of skills/knowledge + more control over their work + a clear purpose - which all in turn leads to better workplace productivity). Well, I'll make it simple, effective learning helps the learner perform more effectively in their work environment. So, let's now look at the title of this post.

Design 40
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Destinationism - why does it have to be this way?

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Well to me it reflects a similar philosophy running through much of our culture (probably started by Henry Ford and his production lines!) - there seems to be a template that describes how nearly everything 'should' be. But can you be as creative and adaptive? I'm not so sure. Why is this a problem?

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Online social networks, learning and viral expansion loops

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Adoption of social sites The image above is familiar to anyone involved in marketing, it describes how readily a new product is adopted by people over time. Without spending too much time on this, one issue with new technologies and especially social media is that there is quite a lot of hype when the product is first launched.