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Informal Learning and Black Swans

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So, we extrapolate on imperfect information. Everyday it wakes up, is fed, does a small range of other chicken activities and goes to sleep. This is where informal learning comes in. Let's try these descriptions of Informal Learning: Learning with no particular outcome in mind. How extraordinary!" Imagine a chicken.

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Why do we label learning?

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I was just reading comments from my post on Autonomous/Formal/Informal Learning and thought I'd put some of my thoughts down in a post as they come! My thinking is this - formal/informal/autonomous/individual - they are all labels, descriptive in their own way. OK, this is a post written as I'm thinking. Let's see how it goes?

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My Top 10 'Learning' books from 2010

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It is really an expansion of the design section from the original book, adding a good deal of extra information and ideas along the way. The power of story telling in learning is enormous, we all tend to remember information when its woven into a meaningful and engaging story. resonate - Nancy Duarte. Switch - Chip and Dan Heath.

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Twitter for learning

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I've only been actively participating on Twitter for 4-5 months now. In the few months that I've been active on Twitter I have been exposed to more ideas from more sources than in whole years previously. Why wouldn't you use Twitter?! However, it is excellent.

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5 great speakers from the AITD conference - a summary of ideas

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Participants were shown in real time the usefulness of much of the technologies (it certainly wasn't a lecture with only one-way information transfer!) The results of the group's "Newsflashing" activity. Learning can be informal. A link to a free download of her report "Five ways to boost creativity in your organisation".

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Exploring the learning landscape

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In my previous post I asked the question, 'Is Autonomous Learning the same as Informal Learning?' Over the last week I've kept being drawn back to questions about, and relationships between, informal/formal/autonomous learning. People do learn from information contained in newsletters but the learning is quite informal.