Last night I read George Siemens‘ provocative new book-in-progress, Knowing Knowledge. (I highly recommend you do the same if you’d like to savor how what we know ain’t what it used to be.) Mid-morning today, I was reading Gmail and noticed in the margin that George was on-line. We exchanged a few lines of text in GoogleTalk and switched over to GoogeTalk audio.
I suggested the two of discuss what we are thinking of talking about at Online Educa Berlin, which comes up in a couple of weeks. Unlike American conferences, Educa attracts academics, government officials, and business executives: it’s a great mixing bowl. George has the first session Thursday; I’m in the same slot the next day.
Here’s our our impromptu twenty-minute conversation.
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Podcast: Jay Cross, George Siemens…
Jay Cross and I had a chat yesterday on our upcoming presentations at ONLINE EDUCA. Jay has posted the podcast. As I mentioned during the discussion, I’ve known Jay for years (five or six, at least), but we have yet……
[...] Last night, while pottering around in my front-yard I accidently found my self engaged in a bit of informal learning courtesy of THIS PODCAST I found via Stephen Downes. While eavesdropping on a conversation between Jay Cross and George Siemens ‘thinking out loud’ in preparation for their talks at online educa (Berlin Nov29 - Dec1) I found myself quite enthralled with their discussion around the process by which each developed some of their more innovative ideas. [...]
[...] Two speakers struck a chord - both of them at the cutting edge in the debate of what constitutes ‘knowledge’ and ‘learning’ in the 21st century. George Siemens is the rising ‘commercial academic’ star of new paradigms of knowledge - at the Conference, he focused on the ‘changing nature and context of learning’. Jay Cross has published a book called Informal Learning. Both men are compelling performers, using a fair amount of stand-up theatre plus podcasts, animated presentations, wikis, blogs, video.. the entire raft of social networking tools to turn all of us into instant publishers and messiahs. It is no accident that they are also admirers of each other’s work. They are both convinced that something fundamental is changing in the way we are learning - and in how knowledge is created and distributed. What was charming is that although both gentlemen had been in regular contact with each other for some five years, and even shared podcasts together - this was the first time that they actually met and could ’share a beer’. Judging by the state of both guys in the plenary session, it had been a long night for both. [...]
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