This is an interesting article about making information available to support immediate performance issues. What is the learning? Solving an immediate issue is important. I am wondering if the "learning" is more about solving a problem, how to go about handling the issue in the future, or how to find information to solve this and other problems.

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Learning in Real Time Mike Prokopeak -  3/2/11 At Google, making the world’s information accessible isn’t just an external mission. It also informs how the company’s engineers learn from one another. Read more at clomedia.com

More grist for the learner directed approach. This post is an interview with Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown the authors of A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change. Aimed at educators there are lessons for all of us in the profession of supporting learning. I am off to buy the book soon

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A New Culture of Learning may be for the Digital Media and Learning movement what Thomas Paine's Common Sense provided for the American Revolution -- a straight forward, direct explanation of what we are fighting for and what we are fighting against. John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas lay out a step by step argument for why learning is changing in the 21st century and what schools need to do to accommodate these new practices. Using vivid narratives of people, institutions, and practices at the heart of the changes and drawing from a growing body of literature outlining new pedagogical paradigms, they place the terms of the argument in language which should be accessible to lay readers, offering a book you can give to the educator in your life who wants to become an agent of change. My hope is that our schools will soon embrace the book's emphasis on knowing, making, and playing. Read more at henryjenkins.org

The elearning coach ups the ante for 2011 with 11 ways to learn in 2011. The first item on the list is "focus". This is where I plan to stay for awhile. I find my life drifting into continuous partial attention. I plan to change that in the upcoming year. "oh look a bird"....

Seriously there are some good ideas on this list for everyone.

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The opportunities for online learning have grown tremendously this past year. Interestingly, there seem to be more ways to participate in active learning. So with no further introduction, here is the official list of eleven exciting ways you can learn online in the coming year. Read more at theelearningcoach.com

Learning requires reflection. This goal setting article gave me some new insights into how I can approach goal setting through reflection on where I am, how I feel about it, how to proceed. I appreciated the inclusion of learning styles in this approach.

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Goal setting is a wonderful process, but too often they are unclear, or they don’t point to the desired outcome in a very efficient way.  If you had a method of identifying your goals and the steps to achieve them you might make more progress.  But if the process is stored in a way that doesn’t resonate with you it may feel overwhelming, cluttered, unachievable, unmemorable, or unclear and you are not likely to take action. Would you consider stepping away from the system that hasn’t worked for you to consider one that will keep your attention throughout the year – something creative, fun, witty, or even a touch eccentric?  You are a creative thinker, why force yourself to create spreadsheets and bullet pointed documents that you may or may not look at during the rest of the year?  You have a vision inside of you; how can you get those puzzle pieces from your mind and into an executable plan? Read more at www.inc.com

Is it formal or informal attire? This is a short article that gets to the point. We need informal ways to connect people who are learning by doing every day.

Companies also need ways to document who has taken what training as well as ways to manage those training offerings that help close a skill gap. Here it is in a nutshell.

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Here is one for Thankgiving day in the united states. Reflection is like desert at the end of the meal. You need to save room for it. Here is a post about the value of reflection in the workplace. When was the last time your boss saw you sitting "doing" nothing and you said "I am reflecting"?

From my experience with simulations and exercises for learning the debrief is the most important aspect of the experience. How can that be brought into the workplace?

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What most companies (and economies) don't do is to stop doing — and that's a self-defeating problem. We seem to be clueless about making room for deep questioning and thinking: reflecting. Our doing/reflecting ratio is wildly out of whack. Most action items might just be distraction items — from the harder work of sowing and reaping breakthroughs that matter. Read more at blogs.hbr.org

This post from Daniel Pink reminded me of the work of Roger Schwarz on mutual learning. My own espoused theory is the idea of growth. I have to debrief myself periodically when I realize I am acting more out of the "fixed" view.

Fixed mindset Rule 1--Look clever at all costs. (“The main thing I want when I do my work is to show how good I am at it.”)

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Last week at a conference, I had the good fortune of hearing a lecture by Stanford University professor Carol Dweck, whose research on intelligence and mindsets has been revelatory for me in all aspects of my life. Dweck’s broad argument is that what people believe shapes what they achieve — mostly irrespective of their innate talent. Some people, she says, have a fixed view of intelligence: They believe that intelligence is an entity, that we’re each endowed with a particular finite supply. Others have a growth view of intelligence: They believe that intelligence can expand through practice and effort.

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--simple job aids when the content is too unstable for a more elaborate production.
--training workbooks
--game instructions
--manifestos (Thomas Paine would have liked this)

A “pliego” is a simple sheet of paper that once folded turns into a microbook (a real pocket-size one, indeed). It only needs a printer, a little do-it-yourself and an average 10 minutes for reading it.

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