Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2006

From Wikipedia's description of Knowledge Economy , quoting Peter Drucker (1966): A manual worker works with his hands and produces "stuff". A knowledge worker works with his head and produces ideas, knowledge, and information. What's the most important skill of a knowledge worker?

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Being able to think critically and create a professional network will be the core competencies of the 21st Century knowledge worker. Knowing how, or procedural knowledge will be a greater asset for most young people. You see, the world of work is in constant change, and that change is accelerating.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 16, 2009

Well not quite, but it is pretty dang close to the definition of Management Consulting in Wikipedia: Management consulting refers to both the industry of, and the practice of, helping organizations improve their performance, primarily through the analysis of existing business problems and development of plans for improvement.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 27, 2008

There are also several studies of knowledge worker practices that suggest that a lot of what is effective is quite personal. The employee goes to Google, dives into Wikipedia and other open source efforts. Then others are already tracking and writing about it and you can just talk or write to them.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Three Types of Knowledge Workers - Incredibly Dull. There are essentially three types of knowledge workers: Knowledge Generators, Knowledge Consumers, & Knowledge Brokers. A physicist says his students are constantly getting misinformation about physics from Wikipedia. Cognitive Daily.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 26, 2007

In other words, in a world with Wikipedia, blogs, social networking, etc. - not to mention in a world of Google as the interface to knowledge - what new skills, techniques and tools do we need? While Henry focuses primarily on students, the question is really important to all of us.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Contrast this with a A Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update. Of course, if you are reading this post (and it's still roughly Oct/Nov 2008), then likely you are a bit ahead of the average knowledge worker. Still, the point here is that many of us were taught how scarce and precious information was. and the list goes on.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 11, 2009

And I feel that Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. If you think of Flickr, Wikipedia, Delicious – these all are content-centric networks. In many cases, I find myself searching for the right person as an answer to my learning / work need rather than finding the right content.

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Matrix

MARCH 23, 2017

In a similar spirit, Ikujiro Nonaka, author of The Knowledge Creating Company , characterized knowledge-creating companies as places where “inventing new knowledge is not a specialized activity… it is a way of behaving, indeed, a way of being, in which everyone is a knowledge worker.”

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

If they need a solution to a problem nowadays, they don’t go to the LMS to find a course, they will use Google to find something more relevant, valuable and shorter – on YouTube, Vimeo, Wikipedia, WikiHow, whatever. 2) Do you think that learning needs to be designed to solve every business or job problem?

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 8, 2009

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Learnnovators

JULY 20, 2015

In reality this has been part of mainstream working practice for many knowledge workers since the 1990s. Open content is a growing feature of the market, as people search for information, knowledge and learning that they need in order to complete a specific task.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

JANUARY 23, 2006

Companies struggle to pass on workers' knowledge - Business News. We're all "knowledge workers" now. But few organizations have figured out how to share knowledge among employees, or to pass it on when employees leave or change assignments. Tag: Knowledge Worker. Alacra Wiki - Harvard Business School.

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Janet Clarey

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Google, Google Scholar, and Wikipedia for homework, the school’s VLE/LMS, instant message, text, profile on a social networking service like Facebook or MySpace.). My arguments primarily revolve around the knowledge worker - those who work with information. Keep your own bias in mind.

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eLearning Learning Posts

OCTOBER 5, 2010

JSB on the roots of informal learning - Internet Time , September 5, 2010 Informal Learning begins with these words: “THIS IS A BOOK about knowledge workers, twenty-first-century business, and informal learning. More cool e-learning for kids (and their grown-ups) - Spark Your Interest , September 10, 2010 Image via Wikipedia.

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Instancy

APRIL 21, 2014

A blended program design may look to actively capture conversations and documents from unstructured learning events into knowledge repositories available on- demand, supporting the way knowledge-workers collaborate and work.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2011

Industrial age workers created value in factories. Knowledge workers create value in workscapes. The workscaping viewpoint helps knowledge workers become more effective professionally and fulfilled personally. A sound workscape environment empowers workers to be all that they can be. Wikipedia 363.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Knowledge workers have replaced factory workers. Shareholders owned the factories, but workers own their minds. Information spreading through network connections empowers workers to make decisions and take responsibility for them. , I recognize that learner-centric is the wrong term. It should be learners-centric.

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