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. Social networks have become the fabric of the high tech industry. Learning is experiential. You learn from your peers and from doing things. They gain privacy by controlling the social situation.

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LearnTrends: Backchannel

Jay Cross

mariancasey: social network. Moderator (Clark Quinn): the question is, leave KM to the propellor heads, or getting learning folks into the model. Plug for ASTD - CPLP Certification includes all of these areas of expertise. Moderator (Harold Jarche): not much social in HPT - reason I moved away from it. Asif: well said.

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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. Yes, yes, yes.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

What worked twenty years ago doesn’t work well in the social, always-on, networked world of business we now inhabit. Service industries challenge workers to acquire tacit knowledge — the kind of know-how one learns on the job, not in the classroom. Malcolm Knowles pointed out that adults learn differently than children.