Due to focusing too much on results and how to make it work, we fail to jump in and experience the tools. This is how trainers relate to technology. Digital Natives, however, just jump, explore and experience the tools. Ray…
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Twitter # 9 Facebook .. What It Is
Twitter #18 – Another Form of Crisis
There are two forms of serious crisis. Environmental crisis. Human capital crisis. We systematically decrease intelligence and creativity by “education”. Case in point: children in grade school show a lot more creativity, compared to a 30- year- old person. As…
Twitter # 7 .. Creativity and Intelligence
Theories of Learning – Four Videos from Wharton/U of Penn
From Elliott Masie’s Wiki, I found these four short videos on learning theories very helpful. These are productions from Wharton University of the Penn GSE Graduate School. Part 1 – Behaviorism: The educator shapes the environment for the learner and…
Inside-Out, Bottom-Top Social Change in Learning
At DevLearn Mobile Where are the opportunities to make revolutionary changes in the way we learn? Questions to ask: How do we clearly know that the training we deliver has value to the business? How do we know what is…
The sixth sense in virtual relationships
At DevLearn Mobile Why do relationships work successfully even if we don’t have as much face-to-face interactions? Conventional thinking says that one can only assess people better with face-to-face meetings or encounters. So what happens to our relationships when face-to-face…
Twitter # 1 in flight
Can Web 2.0-Like Tools Capture Learning Impacts; Like the Way We Watch Our Weight?
The phrase “ability to do things never done before” appeals a lot to me. With the innovative use of Web 2.0 tools, we can solve problems, very old problems we thought we could never solve before: Example: Coaching and Twitter…
Boiling It Down to Valuable and Useful Knowledge
Many pundits of Web 2.0, Social Networking, e-Learning, training and education are raising the issue about people’s inability to process information overload. Some solutions may come from having better software and processes. I am skeptical about our over reliance on…
The Value of the Network is in Defined, Small Groups
Dan Karp wrote an observation on the value of networks in relation to Facebook’s growth, which resounds to me since I always suspect that “networks have to stay small to be productive.” This insight could save us a lot of…
How can We Train People on Web 2.0 and Social Networking When They are All Just Emerging Now?
Through Ray Sims’ blog I found this video of Matt Moore with relevant ideas on adoption of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0. Matt’s metaphors illustrate simple and effective key points we can learn from. Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 are…
LMS is Dead! But Long Live LMS!
The LMS is dead as a model of e-learning. LMS was thought of as a way to help learners learn. But this was a misconception. The LMS has never been designed to be a learning tool. Rather, it is a…
PLEs (Personal Learning Environments) Learning in the World of Technologies
Ray Sims has compiled a good list of resources on Personal Learning Environments (PLE). A quick view of PLEs as a learning method is presented by Graham Attwell. There are many dimensions to PLE and this thought has yet a…
Some Web 2.0-Like Tools in LMSs Extend e-Learning into Social Networking and Community Sharing
The following are Web 2.0-like tools in LMSs. If added or incorporated, these tools help learners use LMS content as a resource for sharing ideas in networks and communities. See how they work: Google-like search – allows learners to search…