Jay Cross

AUGUST 27, 2010

Ivan Illich. Forty years ago, Illich wrote about the need for learning networks, peer-to-peer webs, and learning objects. We have yet to catch up with his vision. In preparing a presentation I’ll be delivering with Paul Pangaro in Brazil next month, I’ve just re-read Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society. Deschooling Society (1971) is a book that brought Ivan Illich to public attention.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 25, 2010

When people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them I begin my day by rewriting my job description. That usually includes… helping business managers solve problems. researching, writing, and presenting new ways of doing things. experimenting with new techniques and technologies. If you want to break free of conventional thinking, come join me at the Internet Time Studio in Berkeley, California.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 23, 2010

Every year for the last six, I have flown to Seattle to attend Gnomedex , far and away my favorite and most powerful learning event. This year’s Gnomedex, the tenth, is the last of the series, so I thought it appropriate to examine what has made the event so damned good. Gnomedex X. Community. Gnomedexers self-identify as geeks. Attendees share the belief that technology is good (awesome!

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