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09 Sep Inside the Flow

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Last week I wrote a piece on the use of flow principles in technical training, focusing on the principles you can design for. Specifically, Csikszentmihalyi names eight characteristics of flow, and the article only worked with three of them — clear goals, immediate feedback, and...

02 Sep Flow, baby, flow

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A.k.a. The technical training that fails to engage If you're a technical trainer, you've seen this before: you designed an exercise, people in the class started doing whatever it is that they needed doing, and then they start dropping like flies. It happens for different reasons,...

26 Jun The Sophist in the Room: Facilitation, Maieutics, and LEGO® Serious Play®

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Introduction: I Promised We'd Get Back to Plato Back in the second section of the previous article about LEGO® Serious Play®, I mentioned Plato and Socrates in passing, and then promptly moved on to Sutton-Smith. "I could start with Plato through Socrates,but we'll get back to that...

19 Jun Why LEGO? Medium and Mode in the theory of LEGO® Serious Play®

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Who's afraid of the Big Bad Bricks? You wouldn't believe it, but there's a question I get asked, in various forms, every single time I introduce LEGO Serious Play to a professional audience. Sometimes it comes as a practical concern: "Do we really need the LEGO,...

05 Jun Strategy and LEGO® Serious Play®

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The Misconception Confession time: I hate team building. I think team building sucks. When you're a company, team building is the activity you do to wash your conscience and tell yourself people are the problem when something isn't working. When you're a team member, team building...

27 May The new Education sets by LEGO® rock, and here’s why

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For the workshop I did in Bolzano, and I wanted to do something different, since I have way too many people and way too few assistants to do a proper workshop using LEGO Serious Play, so I grabbed some of the sets in the new...

13 May Engagement as the Architecture of Learning

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A few weeks ago, I gave you my two cents (well, they're more than two cents, by now) on the future of adult learning, and the first pillar of my theory was the necessity to involve game design. This week, back from Denmark and while...

29 Apr A New Vision for the Learning Crisis

Posted at 06:06h in architecture, engineering and construction, games, gamification and rpg, science and math, technology by shelidon 1 Comment

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The end of 2024 brought us no grand educational reckoning, no moment of consensus that we need to reimagine how adults learn. Instead, through 2025, we've settled into a peculiarly quiet collective exhaustion with the pandemic's educational experiments, paired with a creeping anxiety that something...

08 Jan Winter Burrow

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As promised, and before people storm back to their offices with the wild notion I should answer their e-mails and phone calls, I need to spend a couple of words on this game because it's delightful. Winter Burrow is a survival game, meaning it's a game...

07 May The Architecture of Memory: Eco, Calvino, Borges, and the Digital Archive

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Last week, I pursued the general hype and went to our local theatre to see a contemporary Opera inspired by Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose, one of my favourite books of all time. And though it was mostly inspired by the 1986 movie, it...