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.
shapes possibility
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.
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- Curriculum
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- My thoughts about...How people learnHow learners act, get feedback and build explanations, and why the effort that feels like failure is often the effort that teaches.Explore learning
- My thoughts about...How spaces shape learningWho can see whom, who gets heard, and what the room makes easy before anyone says a word.Explore learning spaces
- Things that might be usefulHow educational products are designedSix kinds of judgement the work keeps asking for, each linked to the guides that teach it.Explore the craft guides
- Things that might be usefulSomething useful on MondayShort, sourced guides you can keep open while you work.Browse guides
- How I workHow systems changeFuturing, complexity and ways of thinking, for challenges that won’t hold still.Explore the framework
- How I workSomething to argue withArguments from practice, each built on one distinction and each ending on what transfers.Read the notes
- LibrarySources worth keepingShelves of eight, each entry with a line from me on why it’s there.Browse the library
- AboutThe person behind the workTwenty years across classrooms, schools and platforms. Also mahjong, bridge and espresso.About Gerald
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