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2020 Book Reads: Agile, Innovation, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

For the second year in a row, I share with you all the books that I read as part of my GoodReads challenge. My top books from 2019 included reads about transformation, including The Ride of a Lifetime and The Technology Fallacy, books for entrepreneurs such as Lost and Founder and Inspired, and AI books such as AI Superpowers.

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Can ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ and other tabletop games help youth build social skills?

GeekWire

(Game to Grow Image) A new whitepaper from two Seattle organizations exhibits research into how tabletop roleplaying games, such as Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons , can be used to help children and teenagers develop their social skills. ” The use of role-playing exercises for therapy goes back over a century.

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Are social media companies to blame for youth mental health crisis? It’s complicated

GeekWire

Social media apps. Lawsuits filed by two Washington state school districts allege that major social media companies including Meta, TikTok, YouTube and others are driving a youth mental health crisis. But is it fair to heap the blame on social media giants? Jeremy Zero Photo via Unsplash). ” (Ithaca College Photo).

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious. If you yourself are not a coder, then much of what you think about the unique nature of development work may be incomplete. Measure the right outputs.

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Epub Book: Best Practices in 2022

Kitaboo

Epub books, popularly known as interactive ebooks, are the newest trend in education institutions and industrial training platforms. Besides, Epub books let you add interactiveness to the content, which increases student concentration and the learning curve. . This is where epub books come in. It’s Time to Move on From PDF.

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Announcing my new book Thriving on Overload!

Trends in the Living Networks

I am delighted to share that my book Thriving on Overload is being published by McGraw-Hill, and is available for pre-order for its availability on September 6, 2022. It has been far, far too long since my last book. I had resolved only to write a book if I could sell it to a top publisher through an agent. More than a book.

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Agile Product Development: Adapting to the Pace of EdTech

Kitaboo

This is where introducing agile product development into the vast arena of education technology creates the bridge that conservative pedagogy approaches cannot mend. For instance, KITABOO’s cutting-edge digital textbook platform comes equipped with apt agile learning development capabilities. What is Agile Product Development?

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