Make yourself a hot beverage and forget your emails for ten minutes - we've rounded up the week's most interesting L&D news and opinion for your delectation.
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Skills
- Life as a teller in the age of the automated teller machine (The Atlantic)
- 8 bad communication habits you need to break immediately (Inc)
- My resilience toolbox (Donna Hewitson)
- A pattern language of post-industrial work (Esko Kilpi)
Education
- Are lectures the best way to teach students? (The Guardian)
- In defense of play (The Atlantic)
- How teens benefit from reading about the struggles of scientists (Mind Shift)
Delivery
- Gamified training works brilliantly but is loved by few (Entrepeneur)
- 37 ways teachers can use Pinterest in the classroom (Teach Thought)
- Leading & learning: How to feed a community (Tanmay Vora)
Development
- I'm often wrong, so I have a #PLN (David D'Souza, LinkedIn)
- The value of grey thinking (Farnham St Blog)
- 10 ways to use charts to tell better stories (Contently)