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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. Our work skills cannot sit still. And how important is this? We are struggling to keep up.

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Too Much Information or a Skills Gap

Tony Karrer

Too Much Information) (found via Stephen Downes ). Information Overload and Learning.” Jonah Lehrer suggests the danger of too much information is “it can actually interfere with understanding.” And I think that we need to recognize that it's more than the "Too Much Information" aspect of the issue.

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Social Learning Experiences: Making Better Connections

Talented Learning

So why should we celebrate technologies that enable social learning experiences? Yet there’s no denying that technology introduces us to countless people we would otherwise never meet. On the other hand, too many options can paralyze participants with information overload. ” -Bill Nye. REPLAY THIS WEBINAR NOW!

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Data on Big Data

Marcia Conner

The world’s technological per-capita capacity to store information has roughly doubled every 40 months since the 1980s according to Martin Hilbert and Priscila López. 340,000: Projected number of people working specifically on big data in 2018 ( McKinsey ). It performs at roughly 100 teraflops. ( for servers and 34.2%