Digging ourselves out of a hole

Here are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week: QUOTES via @CharlesHGreen “When you dig yourself into a hole, first, stop digging.” up by your bootstraps via @HealthCareerPro “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” ~ Winston Churchill. @EskoKilpi “The everyday live interactions we [...]

Some unoriginal and wrong thoughts

Here are some of the things I learned on Twitter this past week. QUOTES “Anything you think is either unoriginal, wrong or both” @courosa Look at a single Twitter page. Think about prior knowledge / literacies needed to decode that page. RTs. links. voice. events. #MediaLiteracy @Dave_Ferguson My comment to @rnantel : fixing most performance [...]

Connected and Crazy

Here are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. Quote of the Week: @hrheingold “Free, open, multimedia university of tomorrow is here now, technically. Knowing how to self-organize learning with others is another matter” via @nancyrubin Collaboration – If it Were That Easy We Would all Do It – Well Five [...]

Changing times

Here are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. Why focus on informal & social learning? by @CharlesJennings | Related Slide Presentation In many cases non-formal and social approaches will replace formal learning. In a few cases they won’t. There are 8 drivers for this change: 1. There is a strong [...]

Networks, networks, networks

Here are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. via @captic – Irving Wladawsky-Berger: The traditional, industrial age hierarchic organization must evolve Value creation has thus been shifting from protecting proprietary knowledge, to fostering collaboration, both within the company and beyond its boundaries, in order to help the firm participate in [...]

Just the facts

Here are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week: Quotes of the Week: @ralphmercer – “committees are places to lure great ideas to be killed while absolving everyone of the blame” via @planetrussell- “Globalization creates interlocking fragility, while giving the appearance of stability.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, PhD. “when hiring, we don’t [...]

From Mark Twain to the Future

Here are some of the things I learned on Twitter this past week: Mark Twain’s Posthumous Bombshells by @cburell Why is Mark Twain’s autobiography only coming out now, 100 years after his death? Because he stipulated so before dying. What he expresses in these screenshots from a PBS Newshour clip of the manuscript suggests why [...]

Quotable Week on Twitter

Here are some of the things I learned on Twitter this past week: QUOTES OF THE WEEK: @KareAnderson “Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will ~ Jawaharlal Nehru “Most of what we know we learn from other people. We [...]

Connecting the dots

Here are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week: @Louisvancuijk – “Knowledge is only a rumour until it is in the muscles.” Connected, a declaration of interdependence by @tiffanyshlain Combining powerful visuals, humor, animation, irony, and serious messages, Connected explores the visible and invisible connections between the major issues of our [...]

Institutions and vendors

Here 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 [...]