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Knowledge Work Types

Tony Karrer

To help clarify this and to begin thinking through implications for Work Literacy Skills , I went back through a couple of different sources. Thomas Davenport classifies Knowledge Work Types in Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers using a variety of classifications.

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Learned vs. Learners

ID Reflections

I have been deviating from the key themes of this blog, i.e., learning, performance, training and collaboration, for some time now. They are as much a part of me as all things learning. With today’s post, I am back on the theme of learning and its impact on performance—personal and organizational. But I digress.

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Personal Learning Tools and Technologies

Tony Karrer

Jane Hart has done a great job collecting individual answers to what learning tools and technologies that people use. At the same time, I agree with his call for sharing on these things and "learning over the shoulder" of others. It's easy to list a set of tools. But, that doesn't get you very far. More important are the methods.

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Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job - Management Consultant

Tony Karrer

The Big Question this month is Workplace Learning in 10 Years : If you peer inside an organization in 10 years time and you look at how workplace learning is being supported by that organization, what will you see? What will the mix of Push vs. Pull Learning; Formal vs. Informal supported by the organization?

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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

Learning from Our Kids In my keynote, I mentioned a Fourth Grade Wikipedia Update. Part of the beauty of this example is that I believe that through watching what's different with my kids, I can learn a lot about what's different. Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 or Learning 3.0 Scenarios Preparing Workers for Web 2.0

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Shifting sands

Learning with e's

I have been blogging, writing and talking about our digital learning futures for some time. Seats of learning are notoriously resistant to change, but change is needed if progress in education is to be made. However, society moved on, the world of work changed, and the industrialised processes were replaced by knowledge working.

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Crowdsourcing in the Small

Tony Karrer

And when I discuss what the new skills are around knowledge work, I quickly arrive a the biggest changes being things like finding expertise , finding answers , using social media to find answers , and learning through conversation. New Term Needed So here's where I need some help.