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Develop Work Skills

Tony Karrer

There are also several studies of knowledge worker practices that suggest that a lot of what is effective is quite personal. That said, I think there is a tendency to lean on the skills that we are good at and not use other approaches when they are called for. How can the organization capture the knowledge, learning, etc.?

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New Work and New Work Skills

Clark Quinn

really was all about new work skills - skills we should be learning. Actually, it's also about the fact that there's not really new work as much as there is new work skills. Work Skills Changing Most of us who used to use these things know somewhat know that they really aren't in use anymore.

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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

Learning from Our Kids In my keynote, I mentioned a Fourth Grade Wikipedia Update. Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? How does this apply to non-knowledge workers? Scenarios Preparing Workers for Web 2.0

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Metalearning

Tony Karrer

Wikipedia defines meta-learning (in education) as: The idea of metalearning was originally used by John Biggs (1985) to describe the state of ‘being aware of and taking control of one’s own learning’. you can define metalearning as an awareness and understanding of the phenomenon of learning itself as opposed to subject knowledge.

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