Friday Fave: The Hipster effect – why anti-conformists always end up looking the same

Friday Fave: The Hipster effect. This week is not really all about hipsters – it’s about anti-conformists and how patterns of behaviour become synchronised.

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Friday Fave: How does photography affect you?

Friday Fave: How does photography affect you? Last week was about digital distraction – this week I’m looking at how using our digital devices impacts you (or not).

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Friday Fave: Digital Distraction – too much screen time makes you…

Are you addicted to your smartphone? Can’t resist just a quick look to see if there’s any updates? Then you’re suffering from digital distraction – or maybe not?

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Friday Fave: Deloitte Tech Trends 2019 – Beyond the digital frontier

The Deloitte Tech Trends report has been released – their 10th in this series.

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The future of work and learning

Transforming learning in the digital workplace This week I will be presenting and running a workshop at the LearnTech Asia 2015 conference in Singapore (3-5 November) alongside an impressive line-up of reputable learning professionals such as Laura Overton (Towards Maturity, UK http://towardsmaturity.org/), Charles Jennings (70:20:10, Internet Time Alliance, UK http://internettimealliance.com/), Steve Wheeler (Plymouth Uni, UK), Clark Quinn…

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The New Normal: the future of workplace learning

Emerging trends in 2015. In 2000 I started researching how social technologies were impacting both the way we approach learning and how we were using these technologies to learn. Since then, a lot has changed and not much has changed at all! A quick glance through the technology options provides a perspective of how enormous advances…

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Wearable Technologies: Shaping the future of learning

This article originally appeared in Training & Development magazine June 2014 Vol 41 No 3, published by the Australian Institute of Training and Development.

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Emerging Technologies for Learning – Vol 3

Becta – the UK Government’s lead agency for ICT in education – has released their latest edition in the Emerging Technologies for Learning series (Volume 3). Not surprisingly, they have again selected a diverse range of authors and issues. (If you haven’t read Vol 1 or 2 – make sure you do!) In the Foreword…

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