OpenSesame
JUNE 8, 2011
While Thiel’s fellowship is a good approach for potential tech entrepreneurs, it’s a narrow solution for a broader problem: A college education has become a prerequisite for a job in the modern economy, but a college education is not the best preparation for the a job in the modern economy. Image Credit: fireboat895 on Flickr.
ID Reflections
JULY 20, 2011
From a community of practice perspective, lurking is interpreted as “legitimate peripheral participation,” a crucial process by which communities offer learning opportunities to those on the periphery. (p. There are communities where we continue to remain as lurkers. Etienne Wenger, Nancy White and John D.
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ID Reflections
AUGUST 1, 2010
Excerpts from the Best of T+D | 2007 - 2009 Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : As knowledge workers, we are like actors--only as good as our last performance. Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Professionals immeresed in communities of practice have a larger zone of proximal development.
ID Reflections
AUGUST 28, 2012
It’s eventually what makes us all more humans… But I have a problem. While I have always been an advocate of informal learning (immensely grateful to Jane Hart, Harold Jarche, Jay Cross and the ITA for showing the way) and communities of practice, I am now becoming an evangelist of both. You name it.
ID Reflections
AUGUST 20, 2010
Image via Wikipedia "Collaboration is a process through which people who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for the solution that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible." ~ Anecdote And informal learning is hinged on collaboration.
Tony Karrer
JULY 21, 2010
One of the things that this group has identified as one of their “problems” is that they receive too many emails. They see the benefit of the tool in a strict learning environment, but have difficulty seeing its use in an expanded role. Of course, there’s no easy answers here, but lots we can discuss and learn around this. This is in process.
Learnnovators
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. Forming the Alliance community was easily the best professional development move of my career. We couldn’t agree more with Laura Overton (Founder & CEO, Towards Maturity) that this is a manual to empower self-directed learners in really practical ways.
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