The Bloom Room | Where Learning Grows

Are we born with our learning preferences, or shaped into them? In part one of our learning styles debate on The Bloom Room, we agreed that "preferences" was a better word than "styles". Now Chantelle, Laura and Sean explore where those preferences come from. Sean shares what he's noticed watching his young son learn, before any preferences have formed. Laura looks at how encouraging, or uninteres...

Most of us have picked up a label somewhere along the way. You're a visual learner, or you're the hands-on type, or you need to hear something explained before it clicks. It feels true when you say it, and it's a comfortable thing to believe about yourself. But the evidence that matching teaching to those preferences improves learning just isn't there.    In part one of this two-part conversation,...

We're living through a revolution. But are we learning through one?   In our latest episode of the Bloom Room, we got into something that sits close to home for anyone working in learning and development: what the pace of technological change is actually doing to the way we think, remember, and make sense of information.   Not in a doom-and-gloom way. More like: what does it mean to 'know' somethi...

In the latest episode of The Bloom Room, Sean, Laura, and Chantelle explore what happens when we stop treating learning as something we have to do, and start reconnecting with the curiosity that came so naturally to us as children. They dig into how confidence shapes whether we dare to ask questions, what it actually takes to spark intrinsic motivation, and why the way children think might hold th...

Welcome to The Bloom Room! In their first episode, Laura, Jason, Chantelle, and Sean talk about the Intersection of Humanity and Technology, inspired by Chantelle and Jason's visit to LN Connect 2025. The team discuss how technology is reshaping learning, and share insights about generational differences along the way. The discussion also touches on rethinking success metrics, the role of data and...