Trends in technological success… Look for repeated attempts and failures. This suggests a persistent problem needing a solution. A solution eventually comes when a technology builds on top of the failures. For example, Second Life succeeds from the failures of…
Twitter # 12 – Saying No Politely
Twitter # 17 – We Over Analyze, Not Experience
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…
Twitter # 16 – Thinking Widget
Designing and writing content to focus on what matters and doing this quickly is a difficult and painful process. What if we design a tool to help people think through and output their thoughts in useful published form? Ray Jimenez,…
Twitter # 15 – Welcome Uncertainty
Twitter # 14 – the Power of Connections
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…
Twitter # 1 in flight
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…
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…
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…