Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Calling shades of gray “black and white&#

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

According to Wikipedia, The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, in French: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an international economic organisation of 34 countries founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. Who are these guys?

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Straw Men

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Wikipedia: “A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position. Lots of straw men live on the web.

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Law & Order

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Using Google and Wikipedia for fact-checking are becoming the way of life. He declared a mistrial when it turned out that eight more jurors had used their iPhones and Blackberries to check out facts not in evidence. Do judges really expect people to turn off their access to facts from the world at large?

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First, kill all the instructors

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I do find Wikipedia to be a powerful learning tool, one that I access almost everyday and for which I write at least two or three articles a year. Am I missing something? But this mostly a solitary activity, except on those few occasions that a useful discussion erupts.

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Corporations need to catch up on open content

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Before Google scanned and digitized 7 million books and Wikipedia users created the world’s largest encyclopedia. If you want to perform a proper string quartet, they noted, you can’t cut out the cellist nor can you squeeze in more performances by playing the music faster.

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May – June 15 Great Ones

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Wikipedia – Explained By Common Craft - Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English - , May 25, 2010. The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. 12 Things Good Bosses Believe - HarvardBusiness.org , May 28, 2010. What is data science? OReilly Radar , June 2, 2010.

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A social interaction pattern language 2 of 2

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

See Wikipedia article on meta. This book is also probably responsible for the direct association of “meta&# with self-reference, as opposed to just abstraction. The sentence “This sentence contains thirty-six letters,&# and the sentence it is embedded in, are examples of sentences that reference themselves in this way.

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