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Learned Helplessness of Learning #chat2lrn

I recently had my first experience on the other side of chat2lrn last Thursday with a co-authored guest post and questions with Mark Britz. I’ll start off by saying it...
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Turn The Curiosity Back On

With all the thinking about self-directed learning and learned helplessness of learning lately, I can't help to think that curiosity needs to be turned back on. Somewhere between 4th and...
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Generation Mobile

I've been sitting on this idea for a while. First it sat in my idea pad for several months and now I've been writing random thoughts down for at least...
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Recipe For Disaster

I've been thinking about a scenario where I compare a transparent organization with a non-transparent organization. It sounds somewhat boring to compare the two, so I've been formulating in my...
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They’re not learners, they’re people

They’re not learners, they’re people. I don’t know if this has any value in stating but it’s something that’s been rolling around in my head for a while. I often...
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Social and Learned Helplessness in Learning

It’s been a few weeks since I first wrote about Learned Helplessness in Learning but it hasn’t once left my mind. Even last week had some familiar mentions of it...
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Ten Things That Make Me Cringe

I was working on another post about learned helplessness in learning that I had previously started but felt this was a bit more timely given the eLearning Challenge. I am...
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First Thoughts on Learned Helplessness

Since reading Mark Britz post It’s All Training Until It Isn’t and related post Learned (Learning) Helplessness many thoughts have been stirring in my head. Before I lost the ideas these posts...
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What Will Learning Look Like In 2024?

About a month ago I saw a question from the eLearning Guild asking for people's input on what learning will look like in 2024. Since that day I've been thinking about...
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