On Informal Learning (Tuesday, January 30th, 2007)

Published by Aaron Sumner in School at 2:31 pm with no comments.

Lately I’ve been digging into blogs, books and wiki entries about informal learning and communities of practice. This clip by Jay Cross makes everything click for me.

It seems, though, that the ideas presented by Mr. Cross fly smack in the face of the beliefs of 90 percent of the people with whom I interact in […]

My Take on the iPhone (Thursday, January 11th, 2007)

Published by Aaron Sumner in iPhone at 9:45 am with no comments.

Everyone’s heard about the iPhone by now. I’ve already had to field a common question a few times–”Why would anyone pay $500 for a phone?”
I think Apple has done this potentially amazing product a disservice by labeling it a phone. When you think about it, the iPhone is really a tiny, feature-packed computer. One of […]