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Jan.31.2013
Pasi Salhberg, in Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?, doesn’t pretend to have a universally applicable solution to the problems we face in providing effective learning opportunities. But the wonderfully produced snapshot he provides of the Finnish school...
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Nov.27.2012
To propose the existence of abundance at a time when so many people are discouraged and overwhelmed might appear to be a hard sell. But that’s exactly what John McKnight and Peter Block effectively do and nurture through their wonderful book The Abundant Community: Awakening the...
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Sep.24.2012
I’m sitting next to Rob, someone I met a couple of hours ago at the beginning of an American Airlines flight from San Francisco to Dallas-Fort Worth Airport this afternoon. We’ve been talking about the work he does on data protection and retention and the training-teaching-learning work I do in...
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Sep.17.2012
If doing is learning, there’s plenty to learn and do with the ideas Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown present in A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change.
Working with the theme of social/collaborative learning ...
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Sep.16.2012
There have been plenty of transformative moments since the Hidden Garden Steps project in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset District began in early 2010. But none have been so encouraging and rewarding than what we saw earlier this month at a community celebration centered...
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Sep.14.2012
There’s a marriage waiting to be made in heaven for trainer-teacher-learners reading learning technology innovator Ben Betts’ Social Learning: Answers to Eight Crucial Questions, published this week by the eLearning Guild.
In his concluding remarks within the 36-page document (...
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Sep.13.2012
There are times when something crosses our desks (or, in this case, our computer monitors) and absolutely makes us sit up straight, amazed that what we so strongly believe has been supported so eloquently—which is what happened when I saw the "School Transformation Through Arts Integration at...
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Sep.13.2012
Those of us who use social media tools know that we will eventually have our accounts hacked/hijacked; I see examples of it on a nearly daily basis. That doesn’t mean we have to sink into despair and assume that resistance is futile, but it does mean that we need to take as many...
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Sep.13.2012
For those of us who write, the news that a very talented and successful writer has been discredited because of his or her own unethical actions is something that hurts us all—professionally as well as personally. At a painfully obvious level, it fuels the arguments of those who want to...
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Sep.13.2012
Those of us fascinated by learning and how we are affected by the places where learning occurs find ourselves exploring a wonderfully unexpected learning space in Annie Murphy Paul’s Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives: the womb.
It is Paul...
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Sep.13.2012
I was feeling wired in the best and worst of all possible ways after feasting on nonstop, extremely intense face-to-face and online contact with colleagues at American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) and American Library Association (ALA) conferences recently.
The...
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Sep.13.2012
As a long-time blogger who believes part of the blogging process involves reaching new audiences, I'll be using my Red Room blog as another conduit for the pieces I routinely publish on my Building Creative Bridges blog (http://buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com). Those pieces tend to be...
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Through extensive interviews with successful trainers, the authors weave a combination of stories and strategies with useful tips and valuable insights ... a book full of excellent advice, well organized, and worth the read.
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—Colorado Libraries
About Paul
Paul Signorelli is a writer, trainer, presenter, social media strategist, learning advocate, and consultant who co-wrote Workplace Learning & Leadership with Lori Reed for ALA Editions. He also has two submissions in Elaine Biech's training anthology...
Causes Paul Signorelli Supports
ALA (American Library Association), ASTD (American Society for Training & Development), Hidden Garden Steps
Paul’s Favorite Books
While my work often has me reading and writing about workplace learning and performance (staff training) topics, I have a wide range of interests including...