Knowledge cannot be managed, everyone knows that
Every amateur epistemologist knows that knowledge cannot be managed. Education has always assumed that knowledge can be transferred and that we can carefully control the process through education. That is a grand illusion. ~ Dave Jonassen
Quote via +Harold Jarche latest blog post.
Source: http://www.jarche.com/2012/04/the-only-knowledge-that-can-be-managed-is-our-own/
If you are in the business of trying to manage somebody's learning other than your own, you might want to read this article above.
The intent of this post has far reaching implications for education & training – just chew it over for a while…
My External Brain
Today I created a clickable tag index of my site and discovered it contains 71 categories, 2276 tags, 1142 posts and 5694 comments. My site is my external brain.
Top tags include: Learning, Education, Social Media, Design, Branding, Schools, Collaboration, Technology, Innovation, Curation, Teachers, Android, Change, Data, Analytics, Community, Social Business, Mobile, Students, Social Learning, Future, Creativity, Knowledge, Sharing and Support.
Now you know what interests me!
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Whale Sharks Don’t Live in Fish Tanks
Co-Existing: Bridging Cultural Differences
Before we begin you may want to pop the kettle on and make a fresh cuppa – this post is not short. An interesting thing occured this evening. A photographer by the name of Shirley Lo +1′d three of my posts on Google Plus.
Imagination is more important than knowledge
~ Einstein
Reshared post from +Peter G McDermott
I found a quoted used by Ken Robinson on Presentation Zen (http://goo.gl/0o7ei)“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
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5 Ways to Maximize Cognitive Potential
This is a great post and really worth the time reviewing. I particularly like the closing paragraph, wouldn't it be nice if old school #Education systems could embrace this idea.
Intelligence isn’t just about how many levels of math courses you’ve taken, how fast you can solve an #algorithm, or how many vocabulary words you know that are over 6 characters. It’s about being able to approach a new problem, recognize its important components, and solve it—then take that #knowledge gained and put it towards solving the next, more #complex problem. It’s about #innovation and imagination, and about being able to put that to use to make the world a better place. This is the kind of #intelligence that is valuable, and this is the type of intelligence we should be striving for and encouraging. Andrea Kuszewski
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Learn about the principles of fluid intelligence, and strengthen your ability to learn through daily practice and exercises.
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Discussion: Google Plus Keyboard Shortcuts
#google plus #tips #collaboration
Reshared post from +Siegfried Hirsch
Keyboard Tip – goto to the Google+ Search Box with /you may know about j and k keyboard shortcuts in Google+ to go to the next and previous posting (VI reminder) and now I have found, that the / can be used for Search. Did not know that, till today.
So if you are on Goolge+ you can just hit / (slash) and voilá you are in the search box and start typing your search keys. Nice
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#DevLearn Storified
“Expanding the possibilities for learning requires a sharp focus on many facets of the learning equation. DevLearn offers a deep exploration of seven themes and the inter-relationships between them: Management, Technology, Strategy, Learning, Enterprise, Knowledge and Performance.”
Insights: 20 key findings based on the curation below is now available
Does anyone know how to now get your #RSS feed from public G+ posts?
Does anyone know how to now get your #RSS feed from public G+ posts?
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Net Neutrality: What do you think?
Seems like a discussion point!
Seton Motley
Just this past Friday, we warned you that a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) December Internet power grab was probably coming.
Well, we now know that it is – and it may be even worse than we thought.
And most economically destructive of all – it appears The Chairman will try to impose Net Neutrality not just on wired broadband Internet service – but on wireless “smart phones” as well.
Andi Jones: 03 This Is Wrong < Love this track… #hitlantis rocks!
http://www.hitlantis.com/?songId=1057759
How Do Rocket Scientists Learn? ht @hjarche #km
What a refreshing read with so many compounding take-aways. I’ve clipped the parts that really resonated but the three points that really stood out were…
1) Develop a place where you can log people’s assets and make that available to the entire team. People with similar backgrounds and skills should be interchangeable.
2) Smart people are hired so they can advise the company not the other way around.
3) In order for this to work people have to truly want to share and collaborate in the open for the life cycle of the project. (and then be given the tools required to do so)
How Do Rocket Scientists Learn? (aka, knowledge management lessons learned at Goddard, NASA)
NASA creates things that don’t exist yet. Doing that takes incredible talent. At NASA, the talent lies not in its complex technologies, shuttles, spaceships, or intranets, but rather in its people.
The products are certainly breathtaking and wondrous, but the success of the things that come out of NASA are a reflection of the knowledge of and collaboration between thousands of brilliant people.
“we didn’t hire smart people so we could tell them what to do; we hired them to tell us what to do.”
people with similar backgrounds and skills should be interchangeable
to make sure that anyone from a particular unit that is assigned to a project has all the skills and knowledge developed in that content area within the unit. Each mission should get the knowledge of the whole department when you work with an individual.
Knowledge Management is “better application of collective knowledge to the individual problem. So we need to develop some systems and do a little more work to share collective knowledge and make us smarter.”
At Goddard, it really seems like it is about empowering people to share and reflect on what they know best.
I really like that they put people in the center of this work, and start from a place of abundant knowledge in people rather than a lack of information in systems.
If you really want to be able to get rapid, trustworthy answers or enhance or accelerate results on a project, it will be important to develop those strong ties.
Main Takeaway: Social media has a lot of potential, but you need to think about how to facilitate different kinds of (online and offline) relationships between people so that their thinking is improved, innovation occurs, they can get quick answers to complex problems, in order to enhance and accelerate business outcomes.
creating and capturing the knowledge at the same time.
in order for this to truly work people have to be willing to collaborate in the open throughout the project lifecycle.
If you share what you know and what you don’t know in the middle of a project, you give people an opportunity to share specific knowledge that can help you in the moment. If it works, this can help save time and money.
Main Takeaway: Sometimes learning in public is a difficult process, but the feedback, support, and resultant improvements are worth it.
Internet will soon run out of addresses ~Vint Cerf #IPv4 to #IPv6
Article from this mornings London Metro…< didn’t know anything about this, you?
Individual Knowledge in the Internet Age ~ Larry Sanger
Individual Knowledge in the Internet Age
Larry Sanger
I will analyze three common strands of current thought about education and the Internet. First is the idea that the instant availability of information online makes the memorization of facts unnecessary or less necessary. Second is the celebration of the virtues of collaborative learning as superior to outmoded individual learning. And third is the insistence that lengthy, complex books, which constitute a single, static, one-way conversation with an individual, are inferior to knowledge co-constructed by members of a group.
Deep understanding ~ Mitchell N Charity cc: @tdebaillon
This just resonates with me…
It is characterized by its breadth, by knowing a things components and
their connections, and most importantly, by knowing what is important.
Deep understandingRead more at www.vendian.org
What is your vision for the future of the book? by @MikeGwaltney
With the innovation of this century I expect to be able to read or listen to any book anywhere on any device, comment on it, share with others and interact with the information contained within in a totally dynamic way… we’re already on track with gadgets like the ipad and smartphones… what will be next ?
What is your vision for the future of the book?
Posted by Mike Gwaltney on September 25, 2010
Now in the 21st century, the book is changing. The availability of information online, and the ability to deliver content cheaply and more quickly than ever before means the digital book is an inevitability. But what will “Books 2.0″ look like?
The time is now for digital textbooks – O’Reilly Radar – Cumulative Knowledge
Excellent article highlighting some of the barriers to adopting Digital textbooks…
1) Structural
2) Emotional
3) Political
“Three events are needed to overcome these barriers:
1. The development of a device that honors the textbook while incorporating a full digital experience.
2. An open platform that encourages innovation.
3. The development of extraordinary applications that will push education to new levels of pedagogical discovery.”
A Time Saving Tip for Everyone… (Video)
Not sure how many hours I’ve spent folding t-shirts in my life but if had seen this video 25 years ago it would have been much less… I’m practising the ‘flick’ this week, let me know how you get on with yours 
4 Elements of Social Capitalism < top post…
The social ecosystem incorporates many factors and getting the balance right requires trial and error, and must be supported in an environment that allows for failure as part of the creative process.
The 4 Elements of Social Capitalism
by Jay Deragon on 09/14/2010
The elements of knowledge required to improve the use of social media are:
1. Look at social media as a “system”.
2. Understand variation and its impact on cost and relationships.
3. Gain an understanding of new knowledge.
4. Understanding how people will use social media requires an understanding of psychology.
The trading of social capital, expectations, intents and knowledge, is the foundation of social capitalism.
Read more at www.relationship-economy.com
Attention: This Revolution will NOT be Televised < ht @marciamarcia
Very inspiring post! I wanted to clip more of this article but time has run out for now… I highly recommend that you click through to read in full.
Attention: This Revolution will NOT be Televised
by Adrian Chan and Andreas Weigend
The social data revolution
We live in an age in which social data has become the air we live and breathe. As individuals, our actions, preferences, habits, and even friendships, leave behind a wake of data. Not only data about us, but data that captures our communication and connections.
If we live in an era of social data, it is in part confirmation that the original age of information is behind us. Our technologies have evolved, and with this evolution, what we know and how we know it have changed.
Today, it is conversational, deeply relational, and open.
Self-constructed identity
The era of social data era is marked by a self-empowered consumer, and a consumption-empowered Self. Self, not society, is the new social construct.
Individuals are not socialized. Society is now individualized.
Social data is data socialized
Social data is not data about the social. It is data socialized. Data that may represent social interests, but always starting as individual selections and interests.
Brands, businesses, and institutions no longer control their own markets or messaging. They are not even in control of their brand image. All of these belong to and are defined increasingly by the consumer.
Transactional media
In the age of social data, the distance between production and consumption collapses because both occur in the same place: online.
Content today can be consumed immediately after its production. This is one source of the transformative power over which social media presides.
Attention is interest
Consumers have the choice, and the consumer is always right. Interest and attention precede the discovery, precede the comparison, the sale, and the relationship. All of these are anchored in the consumer and the consuming Self: interested, engaged, rational, irrational. But most importantly to us, connected.
This is to say that the enormous power harnessed by connecting machines to machines, documents to documents, and people to people – in short, the socialization of data &#
8211; now presents us with an indisputable paradigm shift.
The relational economy
At the heart of the social data revolution is the relation.
The new mode of production
Conversational marketing
Consumers do the branding
Join the revolution
In such a realtime environment, the challenge of social data becomes not one of how to obtain it, but of how to extract meaning from it.Read more at www.gravity7.com
New Blog: How Can We Teach Someone If We Do Not Know How They Learn?
The report ‘Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning: A systematic and critical review‘ starts by asking the following questions, all of which seem more than valid today. Incidentally, this report was compiled in 2004, it’s interesting to consider how things have changed with the explosion on ‘social’ learning.
How can we teach students if we do not know how they learn? How can we improve the performance of our employees if we do not know how we ourselves learn or how to enhance their learning? Are the learning difficulties of so many students/employees better understood as the teaching problems of tutors/workplace training managers? How can wepretend any longer that we are serious about creating a learning society if we have no satisfactory response to the questions: what model of learning do we operate with and how do we use it to improve our practice and that of our students/staff/organisation?
Below I’ve extracted the 13 models from the PDF and provided a link for each one to further information available on the net. The entire report can be read here..
http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/edskas/learning%20styles.pdf
1. Gregorc’s Mind Styles Model and Style Delineator
2. The Dunn and Dunn model and instruments of learning styles
3. Riding’s model of cognitive style
4. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
5. Apter’s reversal theory of motivational styles
6. Jackson’s Learning Styles Profiler
7. Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory
8. Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles Questionnaire
9. The Herrmann ‘whole brain’ model
10. Allinson and Hayes’ Cognitive Style Index
11. Entwistle’s Approaches and Study Skills Inventory
12. Vermunt’s framework for classifying learning styles
13. Sternberg’s theory of thinking styles
Conclusion
The final thoughts in the report lead nicely into yesterday’s post about designing learning environments…
Finally, we want to ask: why should politicians, policy-makers, senior managers and practitioners in post-16 learning concern themselves with learning styles, when the really big issues concern the large percentages of students within the sector who either drop out or end up without any qualifications?
Should not the focus of our collective attention be on asking and answering the following questions?
Are the institutions in further, adult and community education in reality centres of learning for all their staff and students?
Do some institutions constitute in themselves barriers to learning for certain groups of staff and students?
In Lili Holt’s ‘Educating the Net Generation‘ the differences between previous students and the millennial students include:
They are intuitive visual communicators.
They are better able to integrate visual spatial skills (possibly because of computer games)
They learn better by discovery than being told
They can shift their attention easily from one thing to another
They have a fast response time and demand fast turnaround time as well.
These differences as described become important to facilitation as they impact the learning styles of the millennials. Some of the important learning styles presented are:
They prefer to work in teams
They are achievement oriented and like structure as opposed ambiguity
They like interactivity and a rapid pace. They may need to encouraged to stop and reflect
They are more comfortable with visuals than with text
They like to be involved in community activities and believe they can make a difference, especially using science and technology
Net Generation want professors knowledgeable in their field, that can use technology to communicate, and adapt information to student needs.
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