Catherine Lombardozzi

On NOT defying gravity Even if you haven’t seen Wicked in its musical or movie form, you have likely come across the iconic image of Elphaba taking her stand, complete with hat, cape, and broom – defying gravity. She’s plan...

“Spending half an hour reading something interesting, moving, awe-inspiring or merely amusing might be worth doing, not just to improve who you become in the future – though it might do that too – but for the sake of that very half hour of being alive.” ~ Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals

Important read.

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....

I look forward to these lectures... will you be posting the readings for those following along outside of Yale?

YouTube video by Tales from the L&D Bookshelf Designing Learning Ecosystems with Catherine Lombardozzi

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!
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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.

YouTube video by MSNBC Hayes: Gaza is starving. These are real people.

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The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.

One sketch of opposition to AI:
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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 ...

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.”
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A singular source of joy A love letter to plot 25Nb

@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.

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…

Self-Restraint As a Learning Outcome: Yes, We Can, But Should We? (What Matters More Than AI)
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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"

AI is NOT helping education. No one analyzes it better from an expert perspective than Audrey Watters.

What makes me mad about AI in education How to crush a generation and tell them they're winning

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?”

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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...

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-...

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!!

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!”

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

Take a listen to my conversation with Michelle Ockers about leader development strategies... learninguncut.global/podcast/elev...

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...

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/

#writingcommunity #authorsky #writesky #author #amwriting

Beautiful...

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.

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...

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

"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.
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Graphic of the top of the US Constitution, with "We the people" prominent.

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.

Attention! Reading Chris Hayes’ The Sirens’ Call is a bit like going to a therapy session. This analysis of the nature of attention prompts you to reflect on your day-to-day technology use and your choices. It h...

The Sirens’ Call by @chrislhayes.bsky.social makes you think about what you want your life to be... it has prompted me to start my morning with a specific question: What do I need to attend to today? More here: l4lp.com/attention/

Nobody's Business “If you’re so rich, how come you’re not smart?” The quotation above, from Dan Davies's new book The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions – And How the World Lost Its Mind...

“If you’re so rich, why aren’t you smart?” — on venture capital and education technology 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/nobodys-busi...

Democracy IS Engagement Three Ways to Engage Effectively to Protect Democracy

I shared some ideas about HOW to advocate, organize, and resist.

This is for people who want to get involved but are not necessarily well-connected to bigger groups and movements.

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