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Personal Learning
I dropped off the distribution list for OLDaily. I am not sure how this happened. I was gone for two weeks. My personal learning environment changed. I thought Stephen was on holiday. I am back on the...
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Ethical Performance Support
I have had a delightful year thinking about and researching performance in sport and education. I have been fortunate to have spent much of the year as a Fellow in Teaching and Learning at the...
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#coachlearninginsport … smelling the coffee
My Scoop.it aggregator collects a diverse range of posts and tweets about sport and performance. I have not set it to search for posts about ‘coaching’ but sometimes it turns up some delightful...
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Coach education … learning … development?
UK Sport have a great opportunity for a learning experience designer … the official title is Head of Coach Development. The closing date for applications is 4 January 2017. I used Wordle to extract...
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Connecting, Curating and Contemplating
Introduction I have participated remotely in two conferences in the last two weeks. Last week it was Ascilite2016. This week it was Moodleposium2016. I followed both conferences from my home in rural...
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Personal Learning
I dropped off the distribution list for OLDaily. I am not sure how this happened. I was gone for two weeks. My personal learning environment changed. I thought Stephen was on holiday. I am back on the...
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Ethical Performance Support
I have had a delightful year thinking about and researching performance in sport and education. I have been fortunate to have spent much of the year as a Fellow in Teaching and Learning at the...
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#coachlearninginsport … smelling the coffee
My Scoop.it aggregator collects a diverse range of posts and tweets about sport and performance. I have not set it to search for posts about ‘coaching’ but sometimes it turns up some delightful...
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Coach education … learning … development?
UK Sport have a great opportunity for a learning experience designer … the official title is Head of Coach Development. The closing date for applications is 4 January 2017. I used Wordle to extract...
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A name for the game: humble acknowledgement
Many years ago (1978), I enjoyed reading Fred Inglis’s book The Name of the Game. In it, he described how sport connects us. He says of his study of sport: I tried to select and analyse aspects of the...
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#coachlearninginsport Moving from ‘No … But’ to ‘If … Then’ and on to ‘Yes …...
I was struck by the introductory paragraph in an Esko Kilpi discussion of pattern recognition. Esko argued: The way we want to make sense of the world around us often has to do with causality. The...
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Learning Journeys
I have an opportunity to meet with some rugby union coaches on Sunday. Our topic is personal learning journeys after formal accreditation completion. I prepared my presentation earlier this week and...
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#coachlearninginsport: besides and with
I had an opportunity to meet some rugby union coaches today. Just before the talk, I happened upon these two chairs looking out at a rugby pitch. The chairs brought Lawrence Stenhouse to mind. In much...
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Connecting with sport at the crossroads of the world
This morning was one of those delightful, connecting mornings. We have had really good overnight rain in Braidwood. The air is cool … and my ADSL connection is working. I am usually up at 6am and...
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Coach education: watch making and pinball?
This morning, John Kessel shared a poem with me (and his network of coaches) written by Terry Pettit. The title is If I Could Coach Again. I copy it in full as a postscript to this post. The poem...
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Mr Ted Higgs
I was introduced to Mr Edmund (Ted) Higgs in a Trove newspaper reference from The Mail (Adelaide) on 19 May 1923. I found my way there thanks to Robin Poke‘s research on Australian rowing between the...
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Conversations into stories
A Medium alert this morning brought me news of a Sporticus post, Conversations at the notice board. In it, Sporticus connects a noticeboard outside his gym with his reflections on pupil flourishing....
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Thinking about organisational change
I have an opportunity to work with colleagues who are involved in organisational change processes. I am keen to share Joanne Martin’s insights with them as we discuss the scope and pace of change...
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Gut reaction
I came across a 2015 paper written by David Zeevi and his colleagues this week. The paper is titled Personalized Nutrition by Prediction of Glycemic Responses. Their graphical abstract is: I had a...
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Precision
It has been a feast of delight this week on Clyde Street. I have been following up on the ideas shared by David Zeevi and his colleagues about personalisation and prediction. One part of the paper has...
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