A presentation on 'What is Learning?' Time for new stuff!!! Ah, love the learning!
Published on: 28/03/2011
I wanted to blog this presentation that I just prepared about learning, for an all-staff meeting at IRC as an introduction to one of our 'travel free weeks'. Travel free weeks are essentially about organisational learning. And learning we do and talk about at IRC. A quick search for 'learning' gave back 992 hits on our website (in June 2010) on a total of over 12000 items. Learning is seriously core to IRC business. But do we always refer back to the theory and practice of learning, at personal, organisational, collective and even societal level?
Anyway, for whoever wishes to work on learning, going back to the white board with the 'where are we at' question every so often is just a standard (good) practice. That is the key to becoming a learning organisation. Remember Einstein: “It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”
So here's the presentation. I made it on Prezi, because it's a new tool I wanted to (indeed) learn about, also because I think its fresh feel may put the audience in a different seat and engage them in a different way. I got triggered to use Prezi when I first heard @Joitske (Hulsebosch) tweet about it, then when I read this great blog post by Robert @Swanwick about his own experience with Prezi and finally when I saw my first Prezi about designing an academic poster, by Adam Read.
But no more talk now, check the presentation online: What (the heck) is learning ? (the new version of Prezi doesn’t allow embedding on WordPress blogs any longer). My learning curve with Prezi?
Let's see how my colleagues react to it! This, in itself, would deserve a reply blog post, don't you think? (By Ewen)
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