Charlie Gedeon
@charliegedeon
Reflecting on how learning and creativity are shaped by technology and our interactions with it. Co-founder of Pragmatics Studio, a small digital design studio in Montreal.
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Template for helping onboard new team members. Helps discussing working conditions and culture.
Raising Thoughtful & Curious Kids and Provocative Teaching Advice
Inspiring ability to make learning something difficult more rewarding. This man is a genius at making youth and learners feel great about failing.
Great advice for the importance of experiencing things in the world as the root of becoming a better creative.
It wasn’t that I didn’t have anything to say, I was just writing to the wrong people about the wrong things.
Molly Mielke • deliberate
Learning Effectively: Science, Insights and Techniques
The interaction themes and interactions that describe how we create understanding information.
Foraging: Locating resources that will lead to understanding
Tuning: Adjusting resources to align with desired understanding
Externalizing: Moving resources out of the head and into the world
Constructing: Forming new knowledge structures in the world
From the Chapter 11 excerpt of Stephen P. Anderson’s incredible design book, Figure It Out.
Psychology was focused on measurable, outward behavior then. I thought to myself: That’s not what I want to understand about my thoughts. What I want to know is: Why do they come, where do they come from, and why do they persist even if they interfere with attention to the here and now?
Tim Vernimmen • The science of a wandering mind
Impactful Communication Frameworks
The classic and hilarious description of all storytelling structures