Welcome
Thank you for coming by. Is it the blog that got you interested? Were you googling Panta Rhei? Are you thinking a lot about complexity and change? Have a look ’round and feel free to get in touch.
Chris and Mat started this site and blog in late 2019. We both like writing, and talking, about the complexities and simplicities of life, about working in groups and leadership, and about learning and teaching both in the chaotic and the virtual worlds. We both have years of experience in language and communication, education and training, management and leadership. We wanted to share our ideas, our expertise, and our insight with a wider audience. Worth a try, we thought. A lot has happened since then … Both of us are working full time. And Chris started dedicating his time to narrating audio books. Mat had put more emphasis on my writing per se. Learning new things, joining writing groups and courses, …
So, what is happening here?
Years of learning, reading, listening, experiencing, doing, reflecting, leading, following, smiling, crying, talking, writing, … Then it was time to share, time for this site, time for this blog:
On what they call … Artificial Intelligence
For his PhD, Mat wrote – what he likes to call – a research prototype of a grammar checker for learners of German. He then went on to write several articles and a book about the nexus of language learning and AI. Still, when GenAI fell on all of us, he was surprised by the rapid change and the immense power for a while. Then he began to learn and … write. Most recent blog posts are on the topic in one way or another.
On the complexity of change
Most of nature is complex. Most of society is complex. Human behavior is complex. And, as the cliché has it, the only constant is change. And this change is not linear. Sometimes it seems we soar ahead, sometimes it feels like we walk ’round in circles, and sometimes we are taken for a ride. On a rollercoaster. It is this complexity of change that Mat has been exploring, on which he has been reflecting. One blog post at the time. Thinking about it, reading about it, writing about it, … Learning about Chaos Theory, Complexity Science, and Dynamic Systems Theory, he has been doing for more than 15 years. And if you count dialectic — we are going on forty …
RoLL: Research on language and learning
Mat is paying for his daily bread, his shelter, and for what he considers to be luxuries with language and learning and teaching. So, when he writes about language and learning, it often is also about complexity and change, about technologies and artificial intelligence.
The posts Chris wrote on the BASE model are also still available.
Get in Touch
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If you have any comments, suggestions, or questions, comment right on the page or post or send a quick email to mschulze7980@gmail.com. I live and work in Southern California. If you happen to be in the area and would like to meet, again an email is good.
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Wishing you a wonderful day.
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