Jay Cross

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The Designer’s Toolbox

Jay Cross

vary the diversity of situations and articulate the common aspects so that students can transfer what they learn. If only it were easier to scribble in blog posts! Be fast, not right. No negatives (Yes, and…) We did word games. We fenced with our hands. We did living sculpture.

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Keeping the end in mind

Jay Cross

Will I finish this blog post? When I asked my friend Kim over lunch, she told me “The Grit scale alone, or any other timely model, scientifically validated or not, remains undervalued if not made accessible via well articulated practices and ‘labs’ in which to actually practice them. My score of 2.28

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Rachel Happe on Community Maturity Model

Jay Cross

That lack of clear articulation can create a lot of pressure and/or missed expectations for community managers. Blogs, ebooks. Important aspect: keep the vertical columns congruent. See About the Model. Create your network before you need it. Ride the waves. Ignoring issues and trouble-makers rarely make them go away. Be multi-modal.

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Secrets of Working Smarter

Jay Cross

For me, the most value in the text comes not from the parsing out of the finer points of informal and formal approaches, but the articulation of the difference between training and learning. And there are honest remarks about the state of learners, many of whom need to stop waiting for directions and start becoming self-directed.

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Portrait of the modern knowledge worker

Jay Cross

Desired traits in the modern knowledge worker: Gifts and skills: A synthetic mind that can ingest a lot of information and summarise it in clear and concise ways, perhaps using mnemonics.A A strong self-discipline to systematically act upon all the above and reflect to improve again. See on km4meu.wordpress.com.