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Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers

Clark Quinn

Yesterday I created a screen cast on LinkedIn for Finding Expertise. This is definitely a knowledge work task where talking to someone will help. Today, I saw a post on our Free - Web 2.0 I posted a query about this to several of the groups that I've joined on LinkedIn and have received about a dozen responses so far.

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Learned vs. Learners

ID Reflections

I have recently been reading Building Expertise: Cognitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement at a colleague’s recommendation. Building Expertise deals with learning and training as it needs to be. In this post, I want to examine a few aspects of expertise and what that means for the workers of the 21 st Century.

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What Agile Means to Me

ID Reflections

Unpacking each claim Adaptive over predictive Ruth Clark describes adaptive in relation to expertise in her book Building Expertise: Cognitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement , and I think it reflects my understanding of Agile philosophy very well. This is the state of being truly adaptive and agile.

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Adaptive Thinking, Deliberate Practice, and Complexity

ID Reflections

I mentioned that Adaptive Thinking that promotes adaptive expertise is what makes us learners, takes us out of our preconceived notions formed by our domain expertise, and allows us to probe and respond to changing situations with greater elasticity. In short, this helps us to deal with complex situations.

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ASTD TechKnowledge

Tony Karrer

Session Hopping a Practical Guide General Session - New Work Literacies and E-Learning 2.0 Thursday, 01/29/2009 8:00AM - 9:00AM Over the past 20 years, there has been an explosion of information sources, greatly increased accessibility of experts and expertise around the world, and new tools emerging every day. Learning 2.0

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LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers

Tony Karrer

I do a lot of presentations where one of the topics is how to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. In most cases, I will ask for a show of hands: How many of you have a LinkedIn Account? Generally 50-70%. How many of you actively use LinkedIn? Generally down to 10%.

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ID Live with Charles Reigeluth on EdTechTalk

Learning Visions

We find that knowledge work has replaced manual labor as the predominant form of work. Teacher needs to be a designer of student work, a facilitator during that work, a mentor for the student (sticks with a student for a number of years - “looping”). Our systems are designed not for learning, but sorting.

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