Day 68 – 15 April 2014 and day 13 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. Why Mitra? Sugata Mitra is a professor of educational technology at Newcastle University. He is developing the school in the cloud that brings learning to everyone irrespective of wealth and social standing. He’s developed learning labs in two schools … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 68 (Minutes or Mitra)
A year of work in progress – day 67 (Learning to live, learning to play)
Day 67 – 14 April 2014 and day 12 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. Before I start, lunch is a useful weapon, learn to use it wisely. In a previous piece ‘Learning to Play’ , I described how in our doctors’ surgery there is a small wooden box that sits in the waiting … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 67 (Learning to live, learning to play)
Killhope
Day 11 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. Drive through Wolsingham on the A689 and keep going through Frosterley and Stanhope. Keep going as the road twists and turns up Weardale through Eastgate, Westgate and St John’s Chapel. The climb starts to get more serious now and the road narrows as it makes its … Continue reading Killhope
Justify
Day 10 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. For J I could have gone with Jackman but there aren’t many of us about. There’s that Hugh fellow who has done very well for himself but I’m not a great film buff and so don’t know much about him. There is a Danny who is … Continue reading Justify
Improvement
Day 9 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. The biggest room in your business should be the room for improvement. Is it? I hope it’s bigger than the room for complacency. Perhaps this is a big room where you work. It shouldn’t be. Haven’t you heard it said that there is no room for … Continue reading Improvement
A year of work in progress – day 66 (Home cover)
Day 66 – 9 April 2014 and day 8 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. The insurance market in the UK is dysfunctional. It works well, there’s lots of competition but it is still dysfunctional. I say this because every time my insurance is due for renewal I have to go through the same … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 66 (Home cover)
A year of work in progress – day 65 (Gestation)
Day 65 – 8 April 2014 and day 7 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. It’s the panda breeding season. It’s the time of year when love is in the air for Tian Tian and Yang Guang, the Edinburgh pandas (and presumably all other pandas) and soon we may hear the patter of tiny … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 65 (Gestation)
A year of work in progress – day 64 (Flow)
Day 64 – 7 April 2014 and day 6 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. We need to think more about flow. Work should flow through our organisations. Ideas and opportunities should fall like rain and gather in streams and rivulets before coming together in a mighty river, sucked to the sea by the … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 64 (Flow)
Evolving our English language
Day 5 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. English is an ever changing language. Words are regularly added to our vocabulary and the meaning of others is changed over time. Every year the Oxford English Dictionary adds a few more that have made their way into the vernacular. Last year it was selfie and … Continue reading Evolving our English language
A year of work in progress – day 63 (Dutch)
Day 63 – 4 April 2014 and day 4 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. Learning Dutch is number ten on my ‘Ten things I’m going to achieve this year’. Why? Because it’s there. Actually it’s a little more than that. I enjoy learning languages even though I don’t think I’m very good at … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 63 (Dutch)
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 