Most people talking about Web 2.0+Learning come at the topic from the individual learning perspective, rarely from the organizational perspective, and almost never from both.
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Entries Tagged 'Informal Learning' ↓
Learning for individuals & for communities, too
December 15th, 2006 — Informal Learning, Just Jay
GooTube Glitch
December 10th, 2006 — Informal Learning
YouTube just announced a new service: direct video recording. No need to upload. Just do it. I decided to give it a try.
Whoops! It doesn’t want to record. Notice it says the fields to the left aren’t filled out, but they clearly are. Time to get the new parent company involved.
From Counterculture to Cyberculture
December 10th, 2006 — Informal Learning
In the mid-sixties, computers were magic. The general public had no idea what they were. Mechanical brains.
Computers soon gained a malevolent reputation. They were the epidome of command and control. If we weren’t careful, the computers might get together and take over the world. Dr. Strangelove. Hal 9000. War Games. The East Coast Joint Computer Conference I attended in 1967 was all guys with ties: very corporate. Mainframes were cold things — in refrigerated glass rooms.
Yet when personal computers were born a decade later, they were friendly and benevolent. Computers empowered the people. Everyone at the first personal computer gathering I attended (1976) was playful, exuberant, and sometimes starry-eyed.
Ever wonder what happened? A new book has a reasonable explanation.
ASTD TechKnowledge
December 8th, 2006 — Informal Learning, travel
Harold Jarche, Judy Brown, and I — the entire Unworkshop faculty — will be attending ASTD TechKnowledge in Las Vegas January 30 - February 2.
Next week we’ll have a special announcement about what we’ll be doing at the show.
I just reserved my room at the Riviera. The ASTD Special rate is $89/night. My usual discount travel sites tell me the hotel is sold out. On Expedia I found a deal for $67/night, tax included. These days I hardly ever pay the conference rate for a hotel room.
The Riviera is old Vegas. Over 50. I looks like a hotel, not a foreign city. The Rat Pack hung out here. The hotel seems to hope that a flashy website will divert your attention from its 1950s ambiance. If you’re coming to the Conference, be sure to print out a coupon for a free bottle of wine.
Nigel Paine & the elephant
December 6th, 2006 — Informal Learning, The Future
At Learning 2006, I was fortunate to meet Nigel Paine, who was just coming off a round-the-world tour and picking up a Learning Leadership Award for his work at BBC. We missed one another’s keynote sessions, but something drew us together, for we are both true believers in the power of informal learning.
As I’m on a campaign to restore informal learning to its proper place, I am delighted to post this piece summing up Nigel’s observations at Learning 2006.
Damn, damn, damn
November 18th, 2006 — Informal Learning
The previous post in my blog had the wrong URL for George Siemens’ and my podcast. Here’s the correct URL.
Wissensdurstig? Man weiß nie.
November 18th, 2006 — Informal Learning, The Future, travel
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.
Answer to The Big Question: Sometimes
November 13th, 2006 — Informal Learning, The Future, The Learning Business
Learning Circuits Blog seeks comments on one big issue each month, “The Big Question.” Dave Lee and Tony Karrer have added a twist which has boosted participation. We who answer are requested to write and link posts from our personal blogs. This answers the perennial question for those of us who blog personally: post here or there? We grappled with this when I set up Learning Circuits Blog, and I wish we’d come up with this great compromise.
This month’s question is:
Are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant in a world of rapid elearning, faster time-to-performance, and informal learning?
Grab bag
November 12th, 2006 — Informal Learning, ROI, The Learning Business, Web 2.0, bullshit
Last night I dreamt that I was at checking in at some out-of-the-way international airport. I was at a table covered with a pile of receipts, tickets, credit cards, itineraries, printouts, business cards, and notes. I had lost my shoulder bag, so I stuffed everything into a cardboard box. I checked the box as luggage, got my boarding pass, and realized I’d left my ID was in the box. Thank heavens I woke up before I had to go through Security.
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On another matter, Web 2.2 closed with a drawing. My business card came out of the fishbowl, and I am now the owner of a ViewSonic Pocket PC V37. Now I need to figure out what to do with it.
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And another… I’ve been touting the concept that most traditional training focuses on novices, to the neglect of the high-producing people with experience. That’s an over-simplification because a learner may be expert at a dozen things but a novice in several others.
Learning 2006, two days after
November 10th, 2006 — Informal Learning, Just Jay, The Learning Business, Web 2.0
A blessing in disguise: My laptop had 4% battery left when I arrived at Orlando airport to come home on Wednesday. No reason to lug it around. It went into my suitcase and rode home in the belly of the plane. Consequently, instead of writing a description of the last two days on the way back, I read a few more chapters of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, inadvertantly giving myself more time for reflection.
