Education and learning
It’s easy to say a lesson was learned and far more difficult to show it to be true. What can we do to best to learn from what’s happened to us and not allow often difficult, painful, hard-fought lessons to go unlearned? When the student is ready, the teacher will appear Unknown A lesson is …
The informal conversations we have with friends and colleagues can have enormous value if we’re willing to recognize it. The COVID-19 pandemic gave me a gift that has produced an almost incalculable return on my creativity. Prior to the first COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020 most of my engagements with friends and colleagues were episodic. …
The autumn tends to be a time when many organizations hold conferences and this year is no different. What is different is that we are now in hybrid modes and questions remain about what we’ve learned about learning in a pandemic-affected world. Looking at my calendar I see a number of large events coming up …
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To know is to do. This is an unspoken assumption behind much of what is written about change. If we know the risks, know the opportunities, have ideas about what to do, we will make change happen. But this isn’t true — at least, in its entirety. The latest Censemaking Innovation Podcast continues to look …
Learning and doing are important, however without sensing we are practicing and growing in the dark. Praxis is a word that describes the interplay between learning through knowledge and action working together. The more we do, the more we know and the more we know, the more we can do. Praxis is vital to innovation …
Design is far too important not to be shared and made as accessible as possible as our future literally depends on it. Design is not a luxury. Design is what will shape our world to come. Our ‘next’ will be designed by us and those design choices will shape who benefits, how, and what influence …
Learning is at the heart of innovation and works best when evaluation is part of the process to spot what’s actually learned. Learning is a critical part of innovation and evaluation is about understanding its role. There are many definitions of innovation out there. After years of experience, observation, and study I’ve found them lacking …
Learning in times of turbulence requires much more than lessons or courses – it requires new systems. I’ve long contended that learning is all about systems. I’ve not backed away from that. However, I’ve also been a part of some rather terrible systems. Post-secondary education is definitely one of them. So, too, has most of …
Without connecting monitoring of our programs with our principles and strategy, we are simply creating impotency in our organizations. The events of January 6th, 2021 at the United States Capitol were appalling to anyone who cares about that republic, democracy, and decency. While a mob incited by the sitting president stormed the building and forced …
Algorithms influence our online experience and as that becomes a bigger part of life it has consequences beyond the digital realm. Visit a website and you’re probably no longer surprised to see advertisements for the very thing you were looking at on another site while online shopping. By now, any social media user should have …
