How people learn in rooms, on screens and around a table
Designed structure shapes possibility.
A room’s layout decides who can see whom. A screen’s defaults decide what gets done first. Rules, tools and systems shape what people notice and how they think in the same way.
I work across learning, technology, design and systems to understand those conditions, and sometimes to redesign them.
of learning
My work has moved from classrooms to schools, curriculum, digital platforms, learning environments and system-level questions.
The scale changes. The interest stays the same: how structures shape learning, thinking, behaviour and possibility.
- Learner
- Classroom
- School
- Curriculum
- Platform
- System
Orientation
Pick a way in
Most people arrive in the middle, from a search or a link. These are the fastest ways in.
- IdeasHow spaces shape learningWho gets heard, who gets seen and what the room makes easy before anyone says a word.Explore learning spaces
- IdeasThinking in progressNotes, each recording one shift in how I read a problem and ending on what transfers.Read the notes
- GuidesHow educational products are designedCraft guides and context primers for anyone working in or around edtech, starting from the craft map.Go to the edtech guides
- GuidesSomething useful on MondayField guides to how reasoning fails, with phrasebooks and playbooks, for policy, design and media work.Browse the guides
- PracticeTwo ways of workingThe Atlas & Loom framework for challenges that won’t hold still, and seven steps for challenges with known edges.Choose a way of working
- PracticeWhen principles meet constraintsFour practice cases, from a digital platform to a system rollout. Read one in full or as a skim, or one section across all four.Read the cases
- LibrarySources worth keepingShelves of eight, each entry with a line from me on why it’s there, and glossaries drawn from the guides.Browse the library
- AboutThe person behind the workTwenty years across classrooms, schools and platforms. Also mahjong, bridge and espresso.About Gerald
New here? Site structure explains how I see, how the site is made and how its pages connect.
- User experience designMaking a national learning platform legible and workable for the people who have to live in it daily.
- Learning space designHow space, participation, tools and routines support the forms of learning actually intended.
- Interactive digital technologiesWhat learners do inside an interactive system: how they act, get feedback and build explanations.
- The Atlas & Loom frameworkBringing futuring, complexity and ways of thinking together into something coherent enough to hand to a team. It’s the thread I’m most interested in.