Challenging the myths surrounding informal learning

October 21, 2011

Jane Hart just alerted me to this post on Blackboard Blog, 5 Myths About Informal Learning. My comment is awaiting moderation, so I’ll repost it here: Right on. I’ve found that optimists view these five things as benefits where pessimists see only red flags. I’m in the optimist camp. Here’s my take: “It’s too unstructured” [...]

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Concise take on using informal learning for profitability

October 20, 2011

Eavesdrop on a concentrated telephone interview avec moi on how to leverage the informal to improve business results. Thirteen minutes long, and you can bail after five. Paris-based Marc Tirel interviewed me on Skype. He made this recording and shared it in a private session with management of a major bank in France. Marc’s a [...]

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Digital native BS = age discrimination

October 20, 2011

In our session at the recent CLO Symposium, we asked the audience to tell us what they wanted us to talk about. The first response came from Dan Pontefract. Dan heads up learning and collaboration at Canadian communications giant Telus. He handed me a piece of paper on which he’d written “The Fallacy of Digital [...]

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The Chief of Confusion

October 19, 2011

There’s nothing new under the sun. Knowing this doesn’t keep me from being humbled when I discover how many of my ideas I thought were original are things I took from others. A few days ago a friend sent me a link to a 1999 presentation by John Seely Brown on Learning, Working, and Playing [...]

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le congé a Palm Springs

October 18, 2011

Palm Springs Air Museum. (Relive World War II). Pigging out at Lulu. I wouldn’t have said this five years ago, but America has become a better vacation deal than Europe. A dollar buys twice as much as a Norwegian Kroner — and you have a whole lot more to chose from.

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Taking a fortnight for reflection

October 17, 2011

Two weeks away from my day job. Sometimes you need to back away from the day-to-day. Reflection renews the spirit. Great ideas appear when you remove your nose from the grindstone. Life is good.

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Jerry’s Brain on Unschooling

October 16, 2011

My friend Jerry Michalski has been linking his thoughts for a long, long time in the hypertext environment known as The Brain. Click a few links to explore his thinking. All thinking is linking. Looking at another person’s links shows you their reality. I preach the importance of transparency and narrating your work. It’s how [...]

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CLO Symposium

October 16, 2011

Along with my Internet Time Alliance colleagues Jane Hart & Clark Quinn and several hundred chief learning officers, I attended the Fall CLO Symposium this week. Our theme was “Game-Changing Learning: Development for the New Normal.” Sports metaphors filled the air. The location was stunning: the Ritz-Carlton at Laguna Niguel. The hotel overlooks the magnificent [...]

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KM Brasil 2011

October 13, 2011

During our joint presentation at KM Brasil, my pal Luis Agarra simultaneously shot this video! Jay Cross in KM Brasil from Luiz Algarra on Vimeo. Luiz uses the same tiny Kodak videocam that I carry. It’s small enough that people don’t even realize you’re taking a video. If you read Portuguese, you may enjoy these [...]

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Aprendizado informal

October 9, 2011

Last Tuesday I delivered a workshop in Sao Paulo on informal learning to clients of fast-moving Brasilian learning company Affero. I’ll let the graphic recorders tell the story.

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