Usable Learning
Large language model AI is getting a lot better. I’ve written here before about a bunch of the problems with it, and many of those have been ironed out, but that may actually make our systems worse. I’m obsessing about AI behaviors and systems right now. Specifically, what are the behaviors that people need to…
So I had an interesting interchange with Josh Cavalier the other day. Somebody was posting about AI, and I offered up my experience with the accuracy and usefulness of AI in my own work. I said that when I’ve used AI to help with things, the usefulness has ranged from 20%-80% useful. Sometimes I can…
Okay folks — I’m only doing this workshop publicly once this year. It will be a virtual workshop on October 9th, 16th and 23rd (2025) with my friends at LDA, and it’s one of my favorite things to do. If you haven’t already taken it, I wanted to highlight some of my favorite activities from…
One of the things that has bothered me since the beginning of the AI conversation is that most of the discussions of using AI or LLM outputs contains some phrase to the importance of “evaluating the output to make sure it’s correct” or something along those lines. Pretty much any responsible writing about AI contains…
So, it’s been relatively rare that my workshops are public offerings (open to anyone). That’s something I’ve been working to change, and now there are THREE new workshops available. Two virtual workshops and one in-person offering. I’ve also got some discount coupon codes for all you delightful folks, so feel free to reach out if…
So a few weeks ago, someone posted a link to this video to one of my email lists. It’s from a youtuber who is using ChatGPT to learn things, and they had a series of prompts they shared to create a curriculum for learning to code in Python. It sounded downright amazing and magical. But…
Someone just emailed me about getting into instructional design. There are a number of programs and academies have have sprung up for this (of variable quality), but it’s always good to start with free resources while you are just exploring, so here are few things that are available. Connie Malamed created a free resource for…
Someone just DM’d me about visual design resources for learning, and I thought I’d share my best suggestions out a little more widely: First stop: Connie Malamed’s book Visual Design Solutions: Principles and Creative Inspiration for Learning Professionals. Connie’s Blog is also full of great visual design resources. If you want the deep dive into…
My new book, Talk to the Elephant: Design Learning for Behavior Change is available for pre-order! Book Description: What do you do when your learners know what to do but still aren’t doing it? Training is created with the goal of changing learners’ behaviors, but anyone who has created learning experiences knows that there’s a…
This is the slide deck from my Learning Solutions short presentation on preserving attention in an all-digital world. Thanks for their input to: Kristin Hayden Safdie Heidi Matthews Jane Bozarth