Catherine Lombardozzi
@cmtl.bsky.social
Writer-beach-walker. Lifelong L&D geek.
Important read.
The latest state of the climate report is called
"a planet on the brink":
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
And most of America has decided that if we just don't talk or think about global warming, it'll go away.
"a planet on the brink":
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
And most of America has decided that if we just don't talk or think about global warming, it'll go away.
November 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Important read.
It's Sun Day! In more ways than one... my latest blog post explains... cmtl.me/sun-worshipi...
September 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It's Sun Day! In more ways than one... my latest blog post explains... cmtl.me/sun-worshipi...
Important read. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Important read. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It was reinvigorating to talk about Learning Environments by Design with @lnddave.bsky.social now 10 years after my book came out. While much has changed, key ideas remain relevant to today's designers (IMHO). Enjoy this podcast. Thanks for the conversation, David!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=33dw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=33dw...
Designing Learning Ecosystems with Catherine Lombardozzi
YouTube video by Tales from the L&D Bookshelf
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August 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It was reinvigorating to talk about Learning Environments by Design with @lnddave.bsky.social now 10 years after my book came out. While much has changed, key ideas remain relevant to today's designers (IMHO). Enjoy this podcast. Thanks for the conversation, David!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=33dw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=33dw...
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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
August 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
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One sketch of opposition to AI:
www.wired.com/story/genera...
www.wired.com/story/genera...
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
www.wired.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
One sketch of opposition to AI:
www.wired.com/story/genera...
www.wired.com/story/genera...
Applause to this from Audrey Watters: “Education is a practice of caring for one another – who we were and who we can become. Education is a relationship among people… Love the world enough, love yourself enough to fight for a human future.”
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/bird-of-pray...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/bird-of-pray...
Bird of Pray
"This is not right. This is not right."
@justsayuhatebasketball
I know this is a basketball page but I can’t think about hoops 🏀 right now. 🚨PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 PROTECT YOURSELVES AND YOUR ...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Applause to this from Audrey Watters: “Education is a practice of caring for one another – who we were and who we can become. Education is a relationship among people… Love the world enough, love yourself enough to fight for a human future.”
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/bird-of-pray...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/bird-of-pray...
@rhappe.bsky.social I follow you, and so I believe you will appreciate this post. Have a great day! rojospinks.substack.com/p/a-singular...
A singular source of joy
A love letter to plot 25Nb
rojospinks.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
@rhappe.bsky.social I follow you, and so I believe you will appreciate this post. Have a great day! rojospinks.substack.com/p/a-singular...
Timeline cleanse... wait for it.
June 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Timeline cleanse... wait for it.
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Self-Restraint As a Learning Outcome: Yes, We Can, But Should We? (What Matters More Than AI)
blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/cri...
blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/cri...
Self-Restraint As a Learning Outcome: Yes, We Can, But Should We? (What Matters More Than AI)
I want to propose a new learning outcome. It is a meta outcome, with many other things stemming from it. The learning outcome as “self-control” or “self-restraint”. When you…
blog.mahabali.me
May 31, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Self-Restraint As a Learning Outcome: Yes, We Can, But Should We? (What Matters More Than AI)
blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/cri...
blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/cri...
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a bearing witness.
"To turn this sword into a plowshare requires a much greater shift... AI – this idea bound up in military intelligence – shifts us in the opposite direction, towards an automated thoughtlessness, algorithmic indignity, into a future run by those with no humility & no remorse"
"To turn this sword into a plowshare requires a much greater shift... AI – this idea bound up in military intelligence – shifts us in the opposite direction, towards an automated thoughtlessness, algorithmic indignity, into a future run by those with no humility & no remorse"
On an intellectual diet of weaponry, and on resisting the computational machinery of war.
*For Isaiah*
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/swords-into-...
*For Isaiah*
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/swords-into-...
Swords into Plowshares
Yesterday marked my fifth Mother's Day without him. Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of his passing. My beautiful boy, for whom I still grieve and will grieve every day forever; and despite his death...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
May 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
a bearing witness.
"To turn this sword into a plowshare requires a much greater shift... AI – this idea bound up in military intelligence – shifts us in the opposite direction, towards an automated thoughtlessness, algorithmic indignity, into a future run by those with no humility & no remorse"
"To turn this sword into a plowshare requires a much greater shift... AI – this idea bound up in military intelligence – shifts us in the opposite direction, towards an automated thoughtlessness, algorithmic indignity, into a future run by those with no humility & no remorse"
AI is NOT helping education. No one analyzes it better from an expert perspective than Audrey Watters.
Love yourself, love the world enough to think and learn 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-slop-educ...
AI Slop Education
There's a tendency to write about technological change as an "all of a sudden" occurrence – even if you try to offer some background, some precursors, some concurrent events, or a longer, broader pers...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
AI is NOT helping education. No one analyzes it better from an expert perspective than Audrey Watters.
What she said!: “What makes me angry is a society that has so few values, such an attenuated sense of human worth and flourishing, that it jumps to sell off the brains and potential of its young people for — what? A technological fad?”
irinadumitrescu.substack.com/p/what-makes...
irinadumitrescu.substack.com/p/what-makes...
What makes me mad about AI in education
How to crush a generation and tell them they're winning
irinadumitrescu.substack.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
What she said!: “What makes me angry is a society that has so few values, such an attenuated sense of human worth and flourishing, that it jumps to sell off the brains and potential of its young people for — what? A technological fad?”
irinadumitrescu.substack.com/p/what-makes...
irinadumitrescu.substack.com/p/what-makes...
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LLMs don't read. Automated text generation is not the same thing as writing. Tech advancing is not the same thing as societal progress. These are the themes of More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. It might help you think more too. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...
More Than Words
A veteran writing teacher makes a “moving” (Rick Wormeli) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
LLMs don't read. Automated text generation is not the same thing as writing. Tech advancing is not the same thing as societal progress. These are the themes of More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. It might help you think more too. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...
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Seriously, the rational thing to do with LLMs would have been "that's cool, come back when you have a real application for this that justifies the cost and you've made it more energy efficient." We don't have to dump billions into every new computer knickknack! We can have higher standards!!
I don’t know if it’s a masculinity thing or a managerial class thing or what. But you don’t actually have to hand it to AI. It’s okay to look at the equation and conclude it’s not worth it.
April 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Seriously, the rational thing to do with LLMs would have been "that's cool, come back when you have a real application for this that justifies the cost and you've made it more energy efficient." We don't have to dump billions into every new computer knickknack! We can have higher standards!!
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It’s totally fine to say, “hey I don’t accept the convenience costs of AI’s economic and ecological disruptions and I value the inefficiency of human creativity so we will pass on collaborations that accept that trade off!”
April 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It’s totally fine to say, “hey I don’t accept the convenience costs of AI’s economic and ecological disruptions and I value the inefficiency of human creativity so we will pass on collaborations that accept that trade off!”
Take a listen to my conversation with Michelle Ockers about leader development strategies... learninguncut.global/podcast/elev...
Elevate 43: Current Practices in Leader Development - Learning Uncut
In this episode of Learning Uncut Elevate, Michelle Ockers speaks with Catherine Lombardozzi about her latest research with the Learning Guild, which explores
learninguncut.global
April 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Take a listen to my conversation with Michelle Ockers about leader development strategies... learninguncut.global/podcast/elev...
The world still turns and learning strategies evolve. Karl Kapp proposes "action-first learning" in his latest book, publishing next week. My review: l4lp.com/action-first/
Action First: The evolution of gamification
When you have been in the L&D field as long as I have (over 4 decades!), you have seen a thing or two. I’ve lived through more hype and adoption curves (and hype and crash fads) than I care to name. T...
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April 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The world still turns and learning strategies evolve. Karl Kapp proposes "action-first learning" in his latest book, publishing next week. My review: l4lp.com/action-first/
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Beautiful...
April 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Beautiful...
Tressie McMillan Cottom calling out the AI hype. Glad to see I’m not the only one who doubts. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
Opinion | Actually, A.I. Is Pretty Mid (Gift Article)
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Tressie McMillan Cottom calling out the AI hype. Glad to see I’m not the only one who doubts. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
"Trust the learners" - an important lesson from this terrific example of a personalized leader development program at U.S. Bank. Innovative and impactful. On the latest Learning Uncut podcast with @michelleockers.bsky.social.
learninguncut.global/podcast/165/
learninguncut.global/podcast/165/
165: Personalising Leadership Development – Mark Saddic and Terra Wallace - Learning Uncut
Terra Wallace from U.S. Bank and Mark Saddic from CCI Consulting speak with Michelle Ockers about the design and impact of the NextUp leadership development
learninguncut.global
March 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"Trust the learners" - an important lesson from this terrific example of a personalized leader development program at U.S. Bank. Innovative and impactful. On the latest Learning Uncut podcast with @michelleockers.bsky.social.
learninguncut.global/podcast/165/
learninguncut.global/podcast/165/
What is government for? "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone." From my personal blog: cmtl.me/we-the-people/
March 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
What is government for? "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone." From my personal blog: cmtl.me/we-the-people/
Highly recommended. Sharp analysis of AI and its hype. One of the few newsletters to which I am a paid subscriber.
AI agents vs agency 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/agents-versu...
Agents versus Agency
There's an argument I make in Teaching Machines that I'd like to repeat here – a setup to this first of many essays in which I work through some ideas about AI, agents, and agency:
In 1971 the psycho...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Highly recommended. Sharp analysis of AI and its hype. One of the few newsletters to which I am a paid subscriber.