Harold Jarche

TweetIf you pit a good performer against a bad system, the system will win almost every time. This quote from Rummler & Brache in Improving Performance, sums up many of the symptoms of hierarchical systems, whether they be schools, businesses or even prisons. The great work to be done at the beginning of this century [...]

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TweetEverything I know, I did not learn in kindergarten. I didn’t go to kindergarten. Perhaps that was good, as that was the year that my father died, and I still did not speak much English anyway. It could have made for a stressful year. No kindergarten meant I could start school a bit later and [...]

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TweetThe government [update: actually it is an unelected group, NB2026, consisting of a variety of people, including several serving and past politicians] is asking how New Brunswick can be the learning province of Canada. Similar questions have been asked before, so I’m just going to amalgamate some of my responses. Learning at School Public Education: The [...]

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TweetA book that influenced many of my opinions on education is Kieran Egan’s, The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape our Understanding. Egan says that Western education is based on three incompatible ideas: Education as Socialization (age cohorts, class groupings, team sports) Education as learning about Truth & Reality, based on Plato (varied subjects, academic [...]

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Tweet — Many thanks to the E-learning Council, members and their readers for the vote of confidence —

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TweetThis morning I’m heading to Toronto to participate in the Innotribe stream for the Sibos conference. Peter Vander Auwera invited me and I’m really looking forward to what is already a most interesting conference, as I read the tweets and posts. I’m presenting on organizational models over time with Stowe Boyd and the session is [...]

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TweetFive years ago I suggested that those who teach will not test: Anyone who teaches is not allowed to test. Those who design the tests are answerable to those who learn and those who teach. Those who teach are only responsible to those who learn and are subjected to tests. Keith Lyons points out some [...]

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TweetThe Epic social learning debate for Summer 2011 states: “This house believes that as social learning grows, so the requirement for traditional training departments shrinks.” Let’s examine why they grew in the first place. Training on a massive scale was a requirement for preparing citizen soldiers for war and initial methods were tested during the [...]

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TweetThe adaptive organisation is the second-last chapter of Adapt: Why success always starts with failure, followed by Adapting and you. In the final chapters, Tim Hartford examines how groups and individuals can strive to adapt, and here are some highlights. “So let’s first acknowledge a crucial difference: individuals, unlike populations, can succeed without adapting.” This [...]

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TweetHigher value, paid work is increasingly complex and requires greater creativity. This is how the world works today.  Competition is global. Everything else is getting automated & outsourced it seems. Even lawyers are not immune to this. In a workplace requiring creative solutions to complex problems, learning and working must be integrated. We need to actually [...]

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