How do you politely say NO to someone who invites you to network online and you really don’t care to network with this person? Ray Jimenez, PhDVignettes Learning“Helping Learners Learn Their Way”
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Twitter # 10 The Creators
Industrial revolution succeeded. We are able to produce more products at the least costs. The customer revolution is here – where customers are the focus. Yet, another one is here now – the Creators is the new market. People who…
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 # 14 – the Power of Connections
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…
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…
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…
e-Learning 2.0 – The Intimacy Factor
At the heart of e-Learning 2.0 and Social Networking is the “Intimacy Factor” – it works only based on trust, relationships and mutual respect. It sounds like the relationship between an old Confucian philosopher (the master) and his young student…
Knowledge Management Landscape
Ray Sims has a very helpful map, the Knowledge Management Landscape. The map provides an observer a good way of understanding the different tools, practices and thoughts that impact knowledge management. In e-Learning, Knowledge Maps are valuable since they help…
Traditional Learning Paradigms Don’t Have to Die
Mobile log, LAX, delayed SouthwestI just presented to the ASTD LA External Consultant group on Social Networking and its impacts on learning.My impressions: 1. The training practice is accustomed to formulaic ways of implementing ideas and solving problems. Ideas that…
“Abundantly abundant abundance” data does not mean learning
I relate to what Nick Carr was saying about “Abundantly abundant abundance“ Carr was referring to the overload of videos, graphics, photos, and pages in MySpace, Facebook and many other personal Social Networking tools. The overload causes fatigue, exhaustion and…