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Retiring Early; Flaming Out or Living the Dream

This is probably the toughest blog pieces I’ve ever written. I used to blog out pretty much weekly ten or fifteen years ago, but these days…

9 min readApr 24, 2023

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Nige Young

Scoring an own goal with personal goals

For those not down with the language of football (or soccer, depending on where you are) and own goal is something to avoid. It’s an…

6 min readJan 18, 2019

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Scoring an own goal with personal goals

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Nige Young

Why Learning and Technology are a great pairing

I was explaining what I do for a living to a few people recently and it’s always a bit tougher when people don’t understand your job. I’d…

3 min readDec 10, 2018

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Why Learning and Technology are a great pairing

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Nige Young

The danger of learning bias

I was reading an interesting article on The Herald a day or two ago about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is shockingly sexist and racist…

4 min readNov 21, 2018

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The danger of learning bias

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Nige Young

Sausage or Sizzle?

So in New Zealand everyone knows what a sausage sizzle is. The rest of the world not so much (except Australia where you probably know it…

4 min readSep 20, 2018

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Sausage or Sizzle?

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Does technology drive learning or learning drive technology?

I’m looking forward to attending Canterbury Tech this week (Wednesday in Christchurch, New Zealand) where we celebrate all things…

3 min readSep 10, 2018

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Does technology drive learning or learning drive technology?

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Nige Young

No-one is right and that’s okay

What did the US Open teach us in the tennis world this week? Was it that equality still doesn’t exist in major sports? Was it that the men…

4 min readSep 10, 2018

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No-one is right and that’s okay

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Nige Young

Social Learning and the Importance of Numbers

I’ve long been a fan of Malcolm Gladwell. His book Blink on our amazing ability to know things almost instantaneously without knowing why…

4 min readAug 29, 2018

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Social Learning and the Importance of Numbers

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Nige Young

What is Applexia?

No, it’s not about Apple products. Neither is it about the glorification of their technology nor a mindless rant about them. This is about…

3 min readAug 27, 2018

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What is Applexia?

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Nige Young

If you build it they will come?

It’s been an interesting week with some clear common themes coming through. The most notable is actually that of nomenclature or naming if…

4 min readAug 24, 2018

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Nige Young

Nige Young

I’m a passionate educational technologist who believes that maybe (just maybe) education can save us… I'm also the Regional Director (South Island) for N4L

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