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Digital environments and opportunities to learn
I spotted this tweet this morning. The hierarchy of digital distractions: https://t.co/pMJfw5IPYn pic.twitter.com/KabSBJEQ7Q — DataStories (@LindaRegber) April 7, 2016 and thought about my hierarchy....
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Coming to Terms with Sport Analytics
Introduction Earlier this month, I read Richard Whittall’s discussion of Sports Analytics as a mass movement with no name. Shortly afterwards, I found Seth Partnow’s Moreyball, Goodhart’s Law and the...
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#coachlearninginsport Designing Learning Experiences
It has been some time since my last #coachlearninginsport post. A paper by Diana Laurillard has sent me off thinking about designing learning opportunities for coaches (and other learners too). Diana...
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Evolving Learning Spaces @UniCanberra
Back in 2010, I wrote about design changes to the spaces available for learners at the University of Canberra. I was reflecting on my posts today as I saw how the spaces were being used now. I visit...
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Insights for #UCSIA16 from Bill
I use Scoop.it! as a way to aggregate news each day about activities that interest me. I curate some of the links with the #UCSIA16 tag. This is one I posted today #UCSIA16 What Can Elite Sport Teach...
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Meeting Deborah and Margaret
I was introduced to Deborah Jowitt and Margaret Hamilton today. Introduced in a virtual way that is. My introduction to Deborah was through Sally Gardner’s post in The Conversation. Deborah is...
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Access to Open Resources and Opportunities for Secondary Data Analysis
Introduction David Glance has a fascinating post about garage biotech in The Conversation today. In the post, David reports on a talk given by Atul Butte in which he suggested: like other Silicon...
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Getting it wrong
Introduction Each week, I try to predict the outcomes of the nine AFL games played here in Australia. I lack the detailed insights and understandings that Tony Corke, Darren O’Shaughnessy and Sam...
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Episodes in a contested AFL game: an example from Round 7 in 2016
Introduction Yesterday, I discussed the Gold Coast versus Melbourne AFL game from Round 7 of the 2016 AFL season. Today I am looking at a game in Round 7 that was contested over three of the four...
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#coachlearninginsport: new adventures
I have just been given a wonderful opportunity. Teaching and Learning at the University of Canberra have offered me a research fellowship. I have a very wide-ranging brief to explore students’...
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AFL Round 8: Reflecting on counter-predictive outcomes
Introduction Thirty-six years ago, George Lewis and Jonathan Lewis wrote about negative evidence in social research. In the introduction to their paper, they wrote: In social research, there is an...
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#Microcontent
Introduction to Microcontent Summary This is a microcontent introduction to microcontent. Introduction Mobile technologies have transformed the way we access information. Michael Lindner (1) points out...
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A sense of wonder and discovery: in support of methodological pluralism
Introduction I have been thinking a lot about methodological pluralism recently. This is, in part, in response to the remarkable virtuosity that is now evident in approaches to the observation and...
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Valuing Meddlers in Re-View and Pre-View
Introduction Yesterday, I had the opportunity to engage in four conversations about performance re-view: The first was with colleagues at the University of Canberra on to how to share a commitment to...
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The sound of silence: socialisation in and at play
This weekend, the North Shore Football Association in Sydney is promoting a weekend of silence on the sidelines “to raise awareness of respect on the field for players and referees”. At the Braidwood...
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Men’s Health Week Meet Up at Braidwood Central School
It is Men’s Health Week this week in Australia. Mark O’Donnell and Randall Lemin invited me to a meet up with some of the pupils at Braidwood Central School as part of the week’s events. It was a...
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Complicit
I have had a very disturbed day. I am unsettled. Last night I heard a replay of comments made by Eddie McGuire about Caroline Wilson on a Melbourne radio program. I heard too the laughter his comments...
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That Kind of Day
I woke up early today. I am still thinking about Eddie McGuire’s behaviour and the response of his club, Collingwood, and the Triple M Radio station in Melbourne. The radio station is reported to have...
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Kevin
Kevin Bowring is retiring this week. He has been the Rugby Football Union’s Head of Professional Coach Development since 2002. This is a brief post to celebrate a remarkable career of a friend for...
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Expertise and Personal Differences: #coachlearninginsport
I had two excellent reading opportunities today. Although neither was about sport specifically both sent me off thinking about the learning environments we create in sport. David Ireland, in The...
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