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Work Skills Keeping Up?

Tony Karrer

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. Tilde Effect What epitomizes the situation for me is the Google ~ operator. And how important is this?

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Develop Work Skills

Tony Karrer

Stuart Henshall had asked on Twitter about ideas for posts. I sent him a reply and asked for his thoughts on my post New Work. There are also several studies of knowledge worker practices that suggest that a lot of what is effective is quite personal. He asks if our work skills are keeping up.

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Getting Help

Tony Karrer

My post New Work is about changes in work skills. One of the bigger changes in work skills have to do with getting help. Is there a more effective way to approach this kind of problem? There's some interesting discussion in the thread around whether it makes sense to post a question in a blog.

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Learned about Learning in 2009

Tony Karrer

I’m convinced that we are all struggling to have our Work Skills Keep Up. When I look at my particular skills, methods and tools for 2009 and compare them to 2008, I would say that it’s mostly a question of degree of use and certainly my use of Twitter has grown. So, why not look to make this more explicit and effective?

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Impact of informal learning: output learning #LCBQ

Challenge to Learn

It only will be if it has an effect on the learners working skills, making them more effective and productive. Recently I wrote a blog about ‘output learning ‘, based on a management theory called ‘output management’ In a nutshell it works like this. User generated input.

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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? Scenarios Preparing Workers for Web 2.0

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Tool Set 2009

Tony Karrer

Should twitter be part of your tool set? Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. This sounds a lot like a personal learning environment, personal knowledge management (PKM) and personal work and learning environment (PWLE) and PIM. What should be in your tool set? So, here goes. What is a Tool Set?

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