George Siemens post pointed me to Henry Jenkins New media literacies and indirectly to a white paper that provided the following list of needed skills for new media literacy: Play â€" the capacity to experiment with one's surroundings as a form of problem-solving Performance â€" the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery Simulation â€" the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes Appropriation â€" the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content Multitasking â€" the ability to scan

Harold Jarche - Skills 2.0 Enabling learning is no longer about just disseminating good content, if it ever was. Enabling learning is about being a learner yourself, sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm and then taking a back seat.... We need to develop our competencies, skills and comfort levels with these new tools.

Work Literacy Skills Workshop Was the last formal training you had on knowledge work skills the use of a card catalog and microfiche reader? You aren't alone in that. While there has been incredible innovation in tools and methods that support personal work and learning over the past 10 years, most of us have had a hard time with our Work Skills Keeping Up.... She's a co-founder with Tony Karrer of Work Literacy, a network of individuals, companies, and organizations focusing on the frameworks, skills, methods, and tools of modern knowledge work.

My recent Survey - Do You Know What These Are? 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...). I'm actually think that many of the under 27 people who said they knew what it was - thought it was an old computer.

Contributed by regular guest blogger Lorna Tyrtania - Senior Product Manager at ThirdForce I’ve been watching with great interest as the Functional Skills debate has unfolded, and with each twist and turn it seems to move further and further away from the original aims and intentions of the qualification. Initially heralded as a panacea for all, from school leavers, apprentices, adult learners to work based learners; one and all.

Skills Gap There's a great post by Catherine Lombardozzi - Learning 2.0 that discusses the skills that "many employees … well beyond school … could use help in developing … skills are different." She goes on to list out the skills and I think it's quite a good list.

In New Work and New Work Skills , I discuss the fact that most of us have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills - especially metacognitive skills. Our last formal learning used card catalogs, microfiche readers, Xerox machines, libraries, etc.

I've been trying to understand better where simulation fits within the skills development process and whether simulation is the only/best option available to trainers and/or learners. My diagram shows a stepped transition from the abstract/theoretical/2D to the live application of the skill in a concrete/practical/3D environment.

Contributed by Guest Blogger - Lorna Tyrtania, Senior Product Manager at ThirdForce I recently attended a seminar on Skills for Life in the Workplace; Research , Policy and Practice in London, hosted by the Network for workplace language, literacy and numeracy.... I’d encourage you to have a read of a summary of the full research yourself, since my snapshot here will undoubtedly not do the research justice. The findings are based on a longitudinal study (over an extended period of time to you and me!

But I was quickly called on that, and reminded that blogging really is a career tool - it’s probably one of those “knowledge worker skills” that people working with information should really become proficient. Many people (including myself) can’t blog about their day-to-day activities, but blogging has helped them learn more about the industry in which they work. Blogging helps open up new avenues for development.