Clark Quinn

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Contextifying

Clark Quinn

through a calendar), and acting appropriately. We can prepare people before events, support them during, and provide reflection opportunities afterwards. There’s finally a prototype calendar app out that uses your calendar to bring in information about relevant emails, people, and documents associated with meetings, for example.

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Making Slow Learning Concrete #change11

Clark Quinn

You’ve entered the meeting into your calendar, and indicated the topic by the calendar, tags, the client, or some other way. Then, there might be a tool provided during the meeting (whether one you’d created, one you’d customized, or a stock one) to help capture the important elements.

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Travel Tech

Clark Quinn

I put my flight details and a reminder into my calendar. 3 hours before the flight, unless it’s a connection, then 40 minutes to alert me to get to the gate (United used to have an option to automatically download it to your calendar, but that changed with the software switch on the integration with the proud bird).

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How I work

Clark Quinn

And lots of folks are providing advice for those who have to make the shift in these interesting times. Also, it helps to just block out time on my calendar for tasks I need to get to. So, I work from home. Rather than talk about what you should do, however, I thought I’d share what I do. So this is how I work.

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Layered Learning

Clark Quinn

Last week, I posted about a model where a system could provide a sage who looks at the events of your life and provides support. I want to elaborate that model by looking at it in a different way. The notion here is that you have events in your life, across the bottom. Let me make that latter clearer.

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Contextualized Learning

Clark Quinn

So, if you’re in a coaching meeting, the system could prepare you beforehand, provide support during, and some reflective evaluation afterward. The two necessary components are the context-awareness (done via GPS, calendar) and semantic linkages (done with tagging). Say, a checklist.

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Sage at the Side

Clark Quinn

As you traverse the ‘rocky road’ of life, imagine having a personal coach who would observe the situation, understand the context of the task and the desired goal, and could provide some aid (from some sack of resources) that could assist you in immediate performance. Your performance would improve. Let’s go further.