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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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 work skills cannot sit still. Sure they can get along without it. And how important is this?
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Monday, October 20, 2008
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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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
It's left to the reader to interpret where they fit into their day-to-day concept work. Trying to fit any tool into the myriad of different work lives is really hard. What's a top-down strategy? I'm sure there can be many top-down strategies, but for myself and in workshops I use a particular top-down strategy.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Thus, my opinion is: Twitter is not a tool for people who are new to social media and the use of social media for personal learning and work. For people new to the concepts of social media and reviewing their tool set, is Twitter a good choice as a tool? There is one exception to this.
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Monday, January 12, 2009
I'm only 43, but posts like New Work Skills are a bit of an eye opener that we were taught metacognition using note taking on paper, card catalogs, microfiche readers , rollodex, etc. The reality is that metacognitive techniques are changing rapidly - hence so are work skills. I'll get back to this below. libary, libray).
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
This was a major reason that I started down the path with Work Literacy. Last week I had a presentation around using Social Media and Web 2.0 tools to improve your performance as a knowledge worker. One of the questions that always comes up is: How do I find more information to help me get started? eLearning Technology.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Studies of Personal Information Management say that what works is often highly personal. While I use the words, "you should" … what I mean is that "you should consider and maybe try" … not necessarily "you should adopt" … What works for me, may or may not work for you. That's a real mistake.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
It's a big skills, knowledge, performance gap – see Work Skills Keeping Up. It's why I created Work Literacy about a year ago. Wesley Fryer discusses How are you dealing with TMI? Too Much Information) (found via Stephen Downes ). Wesley points us to a post by Kevin Washburn “TMI! Information Overload and Learning.”
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Monday, February 2, 2009
Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web Internet Search Strategies from UC Berkeley Google Operators Google Guide Google Operators Google Cheat Sheet In terms of the specific Google operators that I use quite a bit: - Helps me get rid of stuff that doesn't apply. This is likely my last post in the Tool Set series. Search. as a quick date search.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank eLearning Portal Integration Data Driven Notable Topics for 2009 Work Skills and Knowledge Work Work Skills Keeping Up? It’s interesting at the end of the year to go back through blog posts to see what my Best of 2009 is. eLearning Technology.
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