Author: Jodie

  • Learning Support Is Not the Opposite of Independence

    What changes as learners gain experience—and why less support is not the only evidence of progress A learner completes a task with a prompt, a checklist, a worked example or another person nearby. What have we seen? It may be tempting to answer by subtracting the support from the performance. The prompt helped, so perhaps…

  • Learning Faster

    What Changes When You Learn in Order to Teach? The Surprising Way Teaching Others Helps You Learn. Have you ever noticed that explaining something to someone else makes you understand it better yourself? Maybe you’ve helped a friend with a tricky subject and suddenly realised you grasp it more clearly than before. This isn’t just a coincidence—it’s…

  • The Talent vs. Effort Debate

    Persistence Is Not the Alternative to TalentWe often treat quick early learning as evidence of potential—and persistence as the route left to everyone else. But learning does not divide people so neatly.People often ask whether persistence or talent matters more in the long term. But framing one as the winner may obscure how capability actually…

  • Empowering Anxious Learners

    When Anxiety Changes the Learning Conditions The most supportive tool is not necessarily the calmest or simplest one. It is the one that responds to what is difficult while keeping the intended learning within reach. When anxiety appears during learning, it is tempting to search for an anxiety-friendly tool. Something shorter. More visual. Less demanding.…

  • Role explainer

    PickleWork gives you four “lenses” you can use while learning.They’re not personalities or types — they’re just different ways of approaching your learning so things feel easier and more supportive.You can pick whichever one feels right today, and you can switch anytime.There’s no wrong choice.Choose the lens that feels best for your brain todayWe all…

  • When the Learning Matters – but the Subject Doesn't

    When the Learning Matters—but the Subject Doesn’tHaving a reason to complete a task does not always give us a reason to engage with what it is trying to teach us.Sometimes the reason for completing a learning task could hardly be clearer.The workplace training is mandatory. We need the completion record to keep doing our job.The…