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Coffee Briefing: Pinterest, play and Personal Learning Networks

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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.

Let us know what else you've enjoyed reading recently, and tell us what you think of the articvles we've shared in the comments below.

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)

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