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Get on board with reverse mentoring

CLO Magazine

One such practice is to encourage and support reverse mentoring and incorporate it as a norm within your organizational culture. What is reverse mentoring? Reverse mentoring is the same concept but often featuring a younger employee imparting know-how and improved methods to an older, perhaps more workplace-experienced worker.

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Hey, That's Social Learning!

Dashe & Thomson

Im a problem-solver and thoroughly enjoy helping clients succeed and look good. Ive been creating training and e-Learning programs for over 20 years, serving as an instructional designer, writer, developer, and project manager.

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Hey, That's Social Learning! | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Im a problem-solver and thoroughly enjoy helping clients succeed and look good. Ive been creating training and e-Learning programs for over 20 years, serving as an instructional designer, writer, developer, and project manager.

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Steps Gen Y (Gamer Gen) Can Take to Understand Boomers and Gen X'ers

Kapp Notes

Seek out a boomer or X'er to serve as a mentor. Mentor a co-worker who is not as comfortable with Technology. Offer to IM with a co-worker who doesn't IM or Twitter with them. Get up and visit a boomer, don’t just send an email or IM. Learn the hierarchical structure in your organization, respect it. Be patient.

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Getting iNtimate

Clark Quinn

Cognitively, if you’re closer to the interaction, more engaged with the content, it would seem plausible that more would ‘stick’ Particularly compared to a desktop, where you might be distracted by the shiny objects (new messages, whether email, IM, or whatever). And that’s worth getting involved with.

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Is Your Onboarding Process Ready for the Class of 2017?

ej4 eLearning

The new hire wants more of a mentor and leader , while your manager is simply trying to communicate the local hierarchy. The manager assumes the new hire read the policies on day 1, while he was expecting more guidance to come in-person, or via text or IM. But the result is friction from the start.

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TCC09: Digital Learning Environments: Context Sensitive and Imaginative Classes in Second Life

Experiencing eLearning

When she mentors on the teen grid, she gives them objects that have to be altered so they learn to customize. Just IM her (Lyr Lobo) and ask for I think Holiday Fun 2008. NMC site lets you share your ideas. Lots of educator freebies. Student-driven design. Economy–give students parcels or have them create businesses. Group Work.