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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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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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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. It is now common knowledge that an organization’s ability to innovate is its competitive edge in today’s economy.

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What Agile Means to Me

ID Reflections

My interpretation of the Agile philosophy I am trying to acquire better ways of learning and building personal knowledge networks and helping others do it. Adaptive expertise brings open-ended inquiry to the problem and not a pre-defined solution. It is clear that adaptive expertise is the basis of being a generalist.

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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 Learning 2.0

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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. Most important for instruction in information age paradigm: Think in terms of a task space (project-based learning, problem-based learning, inquiry-based…) – students work together on a task until they encounter a knowledge gap.

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