February 2012
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Current Status: Reading The New Social Learning →
Will provide a review of the book when I finish it, but for now let me just say, if you’re interested in learning in today’s environment, grab a copy.
“This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.”
– Winston S. Churchill
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Just keep on walking →
Once again Michele Martin provides sage advice about career development. In an ever changing and rapidly changing workplace, training often lags the real world. We train for jobs that exist but the workplace is constantly creating new pathways.
Few of the jobs I have had existed when I was an undergraduate in college. And my first full-time job in now extinct, made obsolete by a piece of software...
We shouldn’t confuse having a learning management system with learners managing to learn.
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5th Grader Discovers New Molecule | The Mary Sue →
shadowfirebird:
‘Kenneth Boehr wasn’t expecting more than the usual from his ten-year-old students when he started a lesson on the Periodic table and handed out the molecule modeling kits. Then Clara Lazen handed him a model constructed from oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon atoms, and asked if she’d made a real chemical or not.’
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Nuts and Bolts: Opportunity Knocks? →
Once again Jane Bozarth hits the nail on the head (sorry, couldn’t resist extending the hardware metaphor). But just as we ask students to think outside of the box as they navigate the ever-changing needs and expectations of the workplace, so too must those supporting them.
I like her distinction of “Instructional Designer is a job title; ‘performance consultant’ is a...