This post was originally combined with yesterday’s post, could you imagine? Too much. It has been an eventful year though, so it’s only fitting that I have two eventful posts.

On With The Show

I’ve made the last two months of the year an

I was working on a combined post with two distinct parts. One part a reflection on my new Udemy course called Catapult Your Career: Building Your Website Portfolio. The second part a reflection of all my posts from the past year.

Well, I decided

The holidays is always the busiest time of year. Everyone is out and about doing last minute errands and trying to get that last project out the door before going away for the year.

My rush has been a bit different this year. While it still has that normal rush at work trying to get

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 was an amazing experience. But then again what experience with Chat2lrn isn’t amazing?

I approached the chat2lrn

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 8th grade formal education turned the switch of curiosity off to create the expectation that information is delivered to you. There’s a few anomalies to this

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 a month. I’m finally doing something about it and writing about generation mobile!

What’s

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 head what it would like to do everything wrong.

To put this into context, imagine working with a new application

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 hear people referred to as learners, or “my learners” when talking about the audience.

It seems odd to

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 but without the name.

What I gathered from DevLearn Tweets during Neil deGrasse Tyson’s keynote was that

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 postponing my other post until next week (or perhaps later this week) so I can get