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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. We are struggling to keep up.

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Develop Work Skills

Tony Karrer

Eg some can ask questions and harness a network. There are also several studies of knowledge worker practices that suggest that a lot of what is effective is quite personal. That said, I think there is a tendency to lean on the skills that we are good at and not use other approaches when they are called for.

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Personal in Personal Knowledge Management

Tony Karrer

Take what you need, as there are no “best practices” for complex and personal learning processes. Harold and I have discussed this exact issue before and we are both on the same page that Personal is really important word in Personal Knowledge Management. In fact, Work Literacy is pretty much this topic.

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Twitter as Personal Learning and Work Tool

Tony Karrer

Thus, my opinion is: Twitter is not a tool for people who are new to social media and the use of social media for personal learning and work. Twitter is Okay, But Not Primary For a person who is already more into social media and what their experience might be take a quick look at Brett Miller's recent post 10 days of Twitter.

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PKM is our part of the social learning contract

Jane Hart

Whereas most people are concerning themselves with the new social and collaboration technologies, or how to get people to collaborate, for me the key to successful social learning is how the individual engages in his/her networks and contributes what s/he has learned or is learning along the way.

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Network Feedback

The Learning Circuits

This month's question comes out of part of the dialog that occur during the recent Work Literacy course. While discussing social networking for personal learning, the question came up around being able to reach out and get help from people or find expertise in the form of a person / conversation.

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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? What resources would u recommend for a baby boomer 2 become proficient in blogging, social networking, wikis, etc? from Maybe the ditch digger is really a closet Social Networking expert.