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Knowledge Work Types

Tony Karrer

Several people have asked for some clarification on my definition of Concept Work and Concept Workers. To help clarify this and to begin thinking through implications for Work Literacy Skills , I went back through a couple of different sources. Integration Worker - Routine, collaborative, ex. call center.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

It was definitely helpful to spend time going through Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles. Twitter is Much Better than I Thought for Learning I used to say during presentations that I wasn’t quite sure about twitter as a learning tool. During 2010, I’ve been ramping up my use of twitter as a learning tool. Top eLearning Sites?

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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. Now, if you are as old as I am (that is 41), you will remember growing up on the adage “your work should speak for itself”. Are you a knowledge worker working from home?

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Share Best Practices - Patterns

Tony Karrer

Dodged that bullet. :) Patterns and Knowledge Work I understand the concern that when you share best practices, you may come out with very different results. In particular, highly skilled workers demonstrate the ability to reflect-inaction (Schön, 1987), to conduct mental simulations as a way of imagining possible outcomes.

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Using SharePoint

Tony Karrer

There are some definite challenges to getting SharePoint set up right, rolling it out in smart ways, helping people the right way, etc. Possibly its smarter use of Outlook that's the intent from a Microsoft vision of supporting the knowledge worker. Quick Thoughts on eLearning 2.0 A lot of what eLearning 2.0

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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers Web 2.0 Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary PR 2.0: Applications in Learning Rethinking Learning Styles Understanding E-Learning 2.0

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New Work and New Work Skills

Clark Quinn

In presentations, I often will cite this as an example of the kinds of changes in work skills that have occurred and are constantly occurring. A big part of education is learning how to do research and really that's where you learn the foundations of knowledge work. So you definitely figured out what worked here.