Early this morning I was reflecting on how different today’s world is from the world I grew up in.

You see, I was born during World War II. Complexity had not been discovered. Computers had not been invented. Frederick Taylor was revered. It was a tidier world. Everything was logical. A simpler time.

Thirty years ago things began to get fuzzy. We realized that everything in the universe is connected to everything else. The future’s unpredictable. Networks rule. Shit happens.

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Post-class assessment score:  74%

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Power Searching with Google course staff

140 pages. Fresh as of today.

Update: 25 reviewers signed up so I’m closing this up for now.

Today I completed Google’s Power Searching Course. Do I know any more about search than I did ten days ago? Yes. Capitalization makes no difference but word order does. You can narrow a search by date. Google Earth has a lot more detail than I remember from previous visits. Also, I learned dozens of other little tricks that I’ll probably forget if I don’t put them to use in the next few days.

Previously I approached Google searches much like looking something up in an encyclopedia or dictionary. Continue reading →

In this 90-second excerpt from his TED talk on new experiments in self-teaching, Sugata Mitra describes how children in a remote village taught themselves bio-engineering using the net. Amazing!

Imagine what adult learners could do if we encourage them and let them learn with one another.

Education is a self-organizing system and learning an emergent phenomenon.

Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Executive Summary 3

Where Corporate Learning Came From 3

Corporate Learning Today 5

Training is not the same as learning 6

Corporate Training Is Broken 7

Senior managers are dissatisfied 7

Chief Learning Officers know training is not working 7

Managers feel training has scant impact 8

Real learning takes place elsewhere 8

Workers are disgruntled 10

Training is out of sync with the times 11

The Collaborative Organization Continue reading →