I just can’t enjoy fireworks now I know how much distress they cause. I don’t know the best compromise but this petition is doing well and at 100k sigs will be considered for debate in Parliament so I’m getting behind it. Please consider signing and sharing.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Just out! eBook on free tools for #instructionaldesigners. With contributions from people like @tracyparish.bsky.social @kqlnd.bsky.social @christytucker.bsky.social @susimiller1.bsky.social @nickfloro.bsky.social @andrewjacobslnd.bsky.social & more! www.learningguild.com/publications... #ID #LnD

“An overwhelming majority of teens – 94% – say schools should be required to teach media literacy. And students with some form of media literacy lessons are more likely to fact-check before posting to social media, push back against misinformation when they see it and seek out reliable news.”

An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the world’s fact-checkers, nine years later www.poynter.org/ifcn/2025/an...

#LearnChat 's back! Join us Tuesday, January 7 from 8-9 pm EDT (5-6 pm PDT) to chat about how people learn. Also expect some fun, frolic, and probably a little mayhem.

See you then! #LearnChat

Nollaig Chridheil (Merry Christmas) form Scotland to all my friends here on Bluesky

What will be hot in workplace L&D in 2025?

It's time for the annual L&D Global Sentiment Survey! Take 2 minutes to share your thoughts:

www.research.net/r/DHTS-SB-25

Choose up to 3 options from a list of 16, and also let us know your L&D challenges for the year ahead.

#GSS25

Found this in LinkedIn. Quite a dystopian example of possible use if AI in employment in the future. How will employers navigate the ethics of this, and will they even care?

www.linkedin.com/posts/cspenn...

LOOK! Available for preorder now - publishes December 1, a compilation of tools from working practitioners for those interested in universal design, accessibility, & inclusion:
"𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐥𝐥: 𝐀 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐔𝐃𝐋 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐭"

www.insynctraining.com/inclusive-le...

So nice to see more and more of my “old” L&D feed coming over to BlueSky. Feels like my early days in Twitter

Watched “Eternal You” on BBC iPlayer re use of AI avatars. It flagged a number of ethical issues around AI & 2stood out: lack of discussion of algorithmic bias & answering the question: “Just because we can, does that mean we should?” www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

There’s no place here for hate

You’ve got to do it I guess, but at least we avoided the cliché ‘Instagram’ pose 😉 #Pisa

Travel is absolutely, hands down, the best part of getting older #Duomo #Florence

This post from Clark Quinn sums up the situation with Generative AI perfectly for me. GenAI is just another tool, and if the underlying learning design isn’t effective, then we’ll still be left with ineffective learning “content” - no matter how good the tool is.
blog.learnlets.com/2024/01/qual...

Just back from the wonderful city of Belfast …

Before the annual internet meltdown kicks in …

This is one of my favourite L&D conferences! If you’ve never been before, I highly recommend it. If you have been, you already know why 😉 canadianelearning.ca

Just joined and hoping I can rebuild the network I left behind on X/Twitter. Hopefully this will be a better place to be.