TweetHere’s an infographic from Ross Dawson on Trend Blends to watch as we consider our common futures: I’ve noticed these trends pop up in my readings and observations, for example: Power Shifts Eastward: Clay Burell’s advice for teachers scorned: Teachers have “asked what they can do for their country,” and they do it. Daily. But [...]
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TweetOver three years ago I wrote that the future of learning is DIY: With Google you can find most information that you need. YouTube is a quick and easy way to get “learning objects” to the world. Apple gives the essential tools for knowledge workers, and in a nice package. Wikipedia has shown that the [...]
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TweetAlmost any technology can be a learning technology, I wrote a while back. It’s how it’s used, not what is used. What’s the difference between a conference room and a classroom? What is the difference between a CMS and an LCMS? A learning technology is mostly about branding and I’m more interested in non-educational tools [...]
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TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. You can’t measure discovery learning with an LMS but that doesn’t mean it’s unimportant; by @jaycross I fear the training community is on the wrong side of these questions. The world is open-ended; it’s not assembled from black and white answers. Real [...]
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TweetI’m continuing on my theme of capturing what we learned during our Work Literacy online workshop in 2008, before Ning pulls the plug on us. Previous posts have discussed several aspects of what we learned and I’d like to review some of the summative commentary. What questions still linger? Jason Willensky – “Will we be [...]
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TweetSeveral years ago, I wrote in Training: A solution looking for a problem, that some barriers to performance which are often overlooked when prescribing training, include: Unclear expectations (such as policies & guidelines); Inadequate resources; Unclear performance measures; Rewards and consequences not directly linked to the desired performance. In some cases, these barriers could be [...]
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TweetAs our Work Literacy Ning site (2008) is in danger of getting bumped off the Net due to Ning’s new pricing policy, I will post some of the key articles here so we don’t lose them. Thanks again to Michele Martin for writing a significant portion of this. Introduction to Social Networking Online social networks [...]
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TweetSome of the things I learned via Twitter this past week: @snowded – Good, Bad & Ugly on the Wikipedia Despite the frustrations, experience tells me that in general right wins out in Wikipedia but there are times when it gets downright frustrating. Right finally won out, at least for the moment on British issues [...]
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TweetI attended an intellectual property workshop in Moncton today. It was at the DDx Health Strategies boardroom, a good location with lots of LAN ports and wi-fi. Of course, I hadn’t brought any devices as I assumed that the place would be locked-down. Lesson for next time. The presentation was good, by a lawyer from [...]
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TweetPatti Anklam is blogging the E2 Conference and discusses how Tony Byrne distinguishes between Networking and Collaboration with this diagram: Networking could also be called cooperation, as Stephen Downes helped me define it: collaboration means ‘working together’. That’s why you see it in market economies. markets are based on quantity and mass. cooperation means ’sharing’. [...]
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