Social Learning

Last year, one of my favorite projects failed. The goal was to encourage our students, who usually complete their training program individually, to study and work as a group. The solution we designed was quite simple: every week, students could freely meet with other students who were working on the…

While the students have joyfully moved to virtual learning, teachers are working hard to recreate a conducive learning environment virtually. As an online educator, you can enhance learning in your virtual classrooms with the help of Social Learning. What is Social Learning? Social learning theory is a behavioral theory that says new behaviors can…

Originally posted 17-Nov-22 — Jane Hart is an independent advisor and consultant who has been helping organizations for over 30 years, based in Hythe, England. She currently focuses on helping to modernize the Learning & Development (L&D) function in order to support learning more broadly and in more relevant ways in the workplace. Jane…

Hopefully you’ve bought into microcredentialing as a social recognition layer of the value we bring to the world as individuals. So let’s dive down this rabbit hole 🐇🕳️ We’ve explored the vision for microcredentialing, what macro challenges it addresses, including: Honoring our past, valuing our network, continuous validation, diversity of…

Originally published October 20, 2022 — This is the 84th article in the Profiles in Knowledge series featuring thought leaders in knowledge management. Mark Britz is a performance strategist. He helps people and organizations do better by first being better connected, building on their strengths, and identifying opportunities to improve workflow. …

At this age your child’s social development is more important than reciting the ABCs. — Early childhood experiences provide many opportunities for practicing social-emotional experimentation. With discovery, support, and time, children learn negotiation, advocacy, empathy, while trying on a variety of social roles. They learn language in order to express their feelings, test their power, and find solutions to conflicts.

Cockatoos learning how to steal garbage from each other is a cute story, but shouldn’t we demand more from our media coverage? Even in amusing “human interest” pieces? There’s a viral story in the last day or so about cockatoos raiding people’s bins in Australia. The cockatoos learned to open people’s bins; people put bricks on the lids; the cockatoos learned to push them off; people did other things; the cockatoos can’t open…

Today, almost every text describing the state of the world begins somehow with complexity. Yes, we know the world is no longer predictable. We live in a world of constant change. Governments, businesses, and individuals must constantly re-evaluate and adapt to new situations. This ability becomes a necessity for survival. …

Gen Z (also known as zoomers) has a notoriously short attention span — just 8 seconds. Since they grew up with multiple devices (phones, tablets, computers) and information at their fingertips, they think differently than previous generations. …