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Stephen Downes

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I'm pretty careful about my use of pronouns in this newsletter and elsewhere; you have to be when you're citing authors from around the world and don't fully know naming conventions in, say, Samoan. I don't post my own pronouns because I don't think they're anybody's business, and I don't feel inclined to inquire as to other people's gender preferences. So unless I'm pretty sure, I use the old journalists' technique of referring to a person first by their full name, and in subsequent references with a single name (usually their family name, if I can infer it). Having said all that, I recommend Christy Tucker's look at the use of pronouns while reflecting diversity in characters for scenarios in learning design. But I would add (as Tucker does) that in most workplace learning scenarios, it doesn't really come up.

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