Jay Cross

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danah boyd on teens and 21st century work

Jay Cross

danah boyd opened ASTD TechKnowledge 2013 with a keynote on teenagers, networks, and work in the 21st century. danah boyd opened ASTD TechKnowledge 2013 with a keynote on teenagers, networks, and work in the 21st century. danah has been studying teenagers for a decade. danah has been studying teenagers for a decade.

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Contents of the informal cloud book

Jay Cross

ASTD, 56, 66, 120, 183. Google, 20, 68, 79, 81, 89, 91, 92, 93, 97, 98, 113, 115, 116, 120, 124, 130, 131, 142, 152. Work Smarter: Informal Learning Enters the Cloud. ADDIE, 22, 23, 102, 106. Allen Interactions, 106. Andrew McAfee, 121. Skinner, 66. balcony, 73, 106, 107. Baruch Lev, 81. Berkeley, 187, 192. blogosphere, 120.

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Think for yourselves, plagiarists

Jay Cross

I put “unofficial, unscheduled, impromptu” and “informal learning bicycle bus” into Google and found those three words, verbatim but unattributed, in these works: This infographic on Informal Learning appears in Huffington Post. ASTD InfoLine : Designing for Informal Learning b y Bruno Neal, Linda Hainlen.

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My evolving learning journey

Jay Cross

ASTD held TechKnowledge in San Jose this year. Dan Pontefract and David Mallon’s presentation on creating a culture of collaboration at TELUS was one of the most useful things I’ve ever heard at an ASTD event, and I was making presentations at ASTD events thirty years ago. Google doesn’t have those problems.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) reports that companies spend $1,067 per employee (2.7% ASTD measures only formal training, the workshops, classes, and assignments meted out by training departments. Google search for web resources. Corporate Learning Today. Training is not the same as learning.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

So the worker checks Google or SlashDot or other resources on the web to see who’s got books or articles or blogs or case studies on her topic. Granted, I need a foundation such as how to cut on the calculator or how to get to Google, but after that I can usually get what I need without relying only on what’s in my head.