Category: books

  • On Change, pt 2

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    Sometimes, teams fail to account for change happening to them even when they have, as Agile Learning Centers do, explicit expectations and systems for responding supportively to changes in their students’ goals, clients’ visions, or the enveloping environment. In theory and practice, the team members embrace change, design for it, and may even be loud…

  • E-Book Audio: Section 8 + Reflections Transcript

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    I went a little off-script recording. So here’s a transcript! All recordings are now up at https://soundcloud.com/sde_dispatches/sets/self-directed-education-and-the-agile-learning-approach-an-introduction Hey, welcome to Holding Unfolding, a podcast exploring facilitation that for the past seven episodes has been exploring chapters of an e-book that I put together on some of the, like, context and history and ideas that are…

  • E-Book: audio read-through

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    When working with students or friends to polish something they’ve written, one of my favorite exercises is reading the piece aloud to them. It helps them hear where they lose the thread of their thoughts, in a way that silently re-reading the piece over and over to themselves might not make obvious. I like that…

  • Agile E-Book: Update 3 (of 3)

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    Just updated my page at https://leanpub.com/selfdirectededucationintro with copies of the e-book that include full references, annotated resource lists, and descriptions or web addresses instead of links! Having just finished the first session on an online seminar series on agile learning with friends from CollectiveUP, I’m thinking back to all the topics I wrote in Update…

  • Agile E-Book: Update 2 (of 3)

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    There’s an updated version of my e-book up at LeanPub! The first version was reformatted and lightly edited content from the online course I made for the Agile Learning Center NYC in 2021. While my writing in the Starter Kit, Annual Reports, and elsewhere is typically focused on facilitation, I made the course for people…