Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 30, 2010

Highly recommended if you are trying to track the big picture. Again and again, Kevin Kelly will reach back into his archive and pull out a gem like the above. I subscribe to Kevin Kelly’s Lifestream Updates. Wayne Hodgins turned me on to it.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 3, 2009

In this article, we call this big-picture, longer-term viewpoint meta-learning, and we call upon all CLOs to become Chief Meta-Learning Officers. Crossing a chasm takes a bold leap; baby steps won’t get you to the other side. Getting to the future will require innovation, luck, and perseverance, but that’s the price of staying alive.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 3, 2010

Gifted Big Picture / High Conceptual Thinkers - Eide Neurolearning Blog , March 1, 2010. The future of education – A course in futures thinking - Dave’s Educational Blog , March 8, 2010. Workday 10: Talent Management Suites become Mainstream - Josh Bersin , March 20, 2010.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. February 19, 1999.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 26, 2009

I won’t pretend to know how this works, but this is certainly a pretty picture of the linkages from supercollider: In reply to a few questions that scrolled by: Ellen Langer conducted the experiment with passing out the same paper to two groups, but telling one that it was controversial. Here’s the Tweet stream. 308 tweets!

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Picture the training in your mind’s eye. The consequences can be scary, like astronauts contemplating the fact that their spacecraft was contracted out to the lowest bidder. Benefit analysis. Take a new training initiative, for example, a new product rollout. Okay, now think about how you could improve the learning taking place.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2009

Now you need to learn the big picture, not the little details. Ambient findability : Before the Net put the world’s knowledge at everyone’s fingertips, a lot of what passed for learning was rote memorization. Don’t bet against the Internet.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The helicopter goes up a layer or two to get the “big picture&# or a wider vision. It had been named “Go Meta,&# but we dcided that was needlesslhy complicated. Most topics of group discusssion can be visualized as a series of layers. Looking at the forest reveals viewpoints of a higher order than looking at just the trees.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 1, 2009

The Paradigm Shift for Big Picture Thinking - Eide Neurolearning Blog , July 6, 2009. Smart Cities as Systems of Systems - Irving Wladawsky-Berger , July 2, 2009. Complexity in Government - Cognitive Edge , July 22, 2009. A Mobile Dust-up - Knowledge@Wharton , July 16, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 24, 2010

For one thing, CLO doesn’t print pictures and diagrams in its columns. Now we are entering an era where the benefits of the web will grow exponentially. Tim calls what’s coming web 2. Editorial. A few of you have asked how my blog posts differ from the columns published in CLO.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 10, 2009

A major purpose of this project is to paint a picture to help leaders how to realize the potential inherent in their people. The last thing you want is tack-on technology. · Optimal learning requires a systematic, big-picture apporach. Workers must be able to adapt rapidly without waiting for external direction.”.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 10, 2008

I was out of the picture earlier because I’m the photographer.). “Learning is not a cost.&#. “Forget learning and development. Become a performance consultant.&#. (Me, Me, at The Red Lion Pub half an hour later.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 13, 2010

We are sight mammals to whom pictures mean more than words. Get your sleep or act stupid. Emotional stress severly impacts both learning and productivity. Other rules outline how we humans sense the world. Multiple senses trump single-sense learning. Mirror neurons: we recognize and imitate.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 30, 2009

A massive new genetic study proposes that humans originated near the border of modern-day South Africa and Namibia, a far more specific understanding than the vaguer picture of African origin that previously reigned. New research pinpoints origins of humans in Africa. …Tags: Archaeology & Paleontology,Biology,Health.

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