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a need for empathy
Dave Snowden
OCTOBER 8, 2016
There was a wonderful, if depressing, tweet from J.K.Rowling yesterday: If we all hit ctrl-alt-del simultaneously and pray, perhaps we can force 2016 to reboot.
2016
Is Design Thinking the “New Liberal Arts”?
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
OCTOBER 31, 2016
Design thinking has become an increasingly popular topic of discussion over the past decade. It was featured in the September, 2015 issue of the Harvard Business Review with several articles on the subject.
[iab] Robert Scoble
David Weinberger
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
I’m at a IAB conference in Toronto. The first speaker is Robert Scoble , who I haven’t seen since the early 2000s. He’s working at Upload VR that gives him “a front row seat on what’s coming.” ” WARNING : Live blogging. Not spellpchecking before posting.
Will the App Become the New Classroom?
Charles Jennings
DECEMBER 10, 2016
(this article first appeared in the Spring 2016 Edition of Training Industry Quarterly) Classroom education emerged in a world of information paucity. A minority of people could read. Knowledge was held by the few and education was deeply entwined in the oral tradition.
Trump Presidency Lesson Plan
Dan Pontefract
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
Donald Trump won the American presidency. If you happen to be a K-12 teacher/educator, here’s a handy lesson plan you may want to consider. you can download it as a PDF as well). Trump Presidency Lesson Plan. Lesson Plan Information. Subject/Course: All of them. Grade Level: K-12.
The Top 200 Tools for Learning 2016 is announced
Jane Hart
OCTOBER 3, 2016
It was in 2007 that I compiled the first Top 100 Tools for Learning from the votes of learning professionals worldwide and have done so every year since then. This year to mark the 10th anniversary I have compiled the TOP 200 TOOLS FOR LEARNING 2016.
taking back our society
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Monopolies & the Human Condition “When monopolies succeed, the people fail …”, Henry Demarist Lloyd wrote in March 1881, denouncing the practices of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil.
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Fake ad sources on Facebook
Doc Searls
NOVEMBER 12, 2016
Nearly all the ads I see on Facebook are ones like these two, next to Mark Zuckerberg’s latest post : Besides being false and misleading clickbait, they are not from espn.com. They’re from [link] , and bait for a topic switch:to pitching a diet supplement called Alpha Fuel.
Flows, Fragility and Friction
John Hagel
OCTOBER 26, 2016
I’ve long been a fan of flows but, in the spirit of paradox, I’ve also been a fan of friction. But, wait a minute, friction slows down flows – how could I possibly favor both flows and friction? Until recently, I hadn’t even been really aware of the paradox in my perspective, much less thought systematically about ways to resolve the paradox.
Thoughts on Learning Design Strategy
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
At the DevLearn conference, I ran a Morning Buzz on Learning Design Strategy. I’m happy to say that the participants threw in lots of ideas, and I thought they were worth capturing.
Group cohesiveness & individual effort
Dave Snowden
OCTOBER 1, 2016
I’ll never forget the first time I saw the murmuration of starlings. I’d arrived at the Hilton in Rome which overlooks St Peters. The family were joining me later for a weekend’s holiday which would include a Welsh defeat of the Italians in the Six Nations.
The Evolution of the Firm
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
A few weeks ago I discussed The Rise of the Global Superstar Company based on a recent special report on the subject by The Economist. The report noted that the decade-long trend toward increasingly concentrated global firms is somewhat surprising. .
Second debate: The wordclouds
David Weinberger
OCTOBER 10, 2016
Here are wordclouds, generated by WordClouds , for the entire debate last night, and for Clinton and Trump. Here’s the transcript. By the way, according to the tool at Planetcalc , Trump used 1,162 unique words; Clinton used 1,242. According to Readability-Score , Trump spoke at a 7.6
From Courses to Campaigns : using the 70:20:10 approach
Charles Jennings
JANUARY 3, 2016
One of the major strategic objectives for many HR and L&D departments in 2016 and beyond will be to extend their focus and services beyond courses and out into the workplace. There are many reasons why this objective makes good sense.
Greenwashing Your Way To Employee Disengagement
Dan Pontefract
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
The term whitewashing is defined as “a coordinated attempt to hide unpleasant facts, especially in a political context.” ” It’s easy to see the relationship between it and another less familiar term, greenwashing.
Jane’s Top 10 Tools for Learning 2016
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 18, 2016
On Friday 23rd September, voting closes in the 10th Annual Survey of Learning Tool – so it’s not too late to vote! You can find out how to do so HERE – essentially it involves sharing your own Top 10 Tools for Learning – anonymously or publicly.
countering fascist thinking
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Jason Kottke reviewed an article by the philosopher Umberto Eco and summarized it as 14 features of eternal fascism. “These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism.
Mastering the Art of Collaboration Through Conversation
Luis Suarez
OCTOBER 17, 2016
. Can you have too many conversations at work?
The problem for people isn’t advertising, and the problem for advertising isn’t blocking. The problem for both is tracking.
Doc Searls
OCTOBER 21, 2016
In Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking , @JuliaAngwin and @ProPublica unpack what the subhead says well enough: “Google is the latest tech company to drop the longstanding wall between anonymous online ad tracking and user’s names.”
Scaling Learning in an Exponential World
John Hagel
OCTOBER 4, 2016
What does scalable learning really mean? I’ve been writing and talking about this for a while now including here , making the case that this will be a key driver of institutional success in the years ahead. In the course of conversations, I’ve discovered a lot of misunderstandings regarding what I really mean by scalable learning, so let me take this opportunity to clarify my perspective. Why is scalable learning so important?
How Feminists Are Costing Dems Gen Y
Nine Shift
OCTOBER 7, 2016
The Democratic Party is losing Gen Y. And Feminists are playing a huge role in costing Democrats the majority of Gen Y. It began with Madeline Albright telling Gen Y women there's a special hell for them if they don't vote for Mrs. Clinton. Here's the latest.
Freedom through constraints
Dave Snowden
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about constraints in the context of complexity in general and cynefin more specifically. I’ve long used a constraint based definition to understand the differences between order, complexity and chaos.
Has AI (Finally) Reached a Tipping Point?
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
OCTOBER 24, 2016
After many years of promise and hype, AI seems to be finally reaching a tipping point of market acceptance. Artificial intelligence is suddenly everywhere… it is proliferating like mad.” So starts a Vanity Fair article published around two years ago by author and radio host Kurt Andersen.
Making library miscellaneousness awesome
David Weinberger
MARCH 8, 2016
Sitterwerk Art Library in St. Gallen, Switzerland, has 19,000 publicly-accessible items on its shelves in no particular order. This video explains why that is a brilliant approach. And then the story just gets better and better. Werkbank from Astrom / Zimmer on Vimeo.
The Power of Reflection in an Ever-Changing World
Charles Jennings
JULY 28, 2016
(I wrote the original piece this article is based on for Training Industry Quarterly in Winter, 2012. I feel it still speaks to a key issue for building high performance that has barely been touched by many L&D professionals).
My (Re) View Of That Night In Kingston
Dan Pontefract
AUGUST 22, 2016
The room was electric. Abuzz with anticipation. I felt like I was floating. Who put helium in my shoes? But we were organized. Of course we were. You taught us to be ready. To be born ready. Armed with will and determination.
Why is Twitter no longer No 1 on the Top Tools for Learning list?
Jane Hart
OCTOBER 18, 2016
After 7 years at the top of the Top 100 Tools for Learning , this year Twitter fell back to No 3 place in 2016, and there’s been some talk why this is the case, so I thought I’d examine some of the reasons here. Anja thought it was because the mainstream had taken over my questionnaire!
the problem is to know what questions to ask
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 9, 2016
“As we move to driverless cars and machine learning and an economy in which any action that is repeated can be automated, let’s spare a thought for the kids who only get Cs in school. What will become of them? What do you mean you have no idea? That’s your job!
Kaihan Krippendorff Keynote Mindmap
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
At a private event, I had a chance to hear Kaihan Krippendorff talk about thinking differently about innovation. He used an 8P’s model as a framework to illustrate how to think differently.
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
John Hagel
DECEMBER 14, 2016
I love paradox and today we’re living through one of the biggest paradoxes of all: at a time when we seem more divided than ever, we’re actually more united than ever. What do I mean by that? All you have to do is take a cursory look through our media or our conversations when we come together as groups to see that we’re deeply polarized. We not only disagree with the views of the other side, but dismiss the people articulating those views as evil, sick or ignorant beyond belief.
Adaptive Learners, Not Adaptive Learning
George Siemens
JULY 20, 2016
Some variation of adaptive or personalized learning is rumoured to “disrupt” education in the near future. Adaptive courseware providers have received extensive funding and this emerging marketplace has been referred to as the “holy grail” of education (Jose Ferreira at an EdTech Innovation conference that I hosted in Calgary in 2013).
In the salt marsh
Dave Snowden
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
I’m still working on the new use of coupling and boundary constraints for Cynefin so readers will have to wait a few days for that. So I thought I would continue by theme of yesterday, namely the organisational use of narrative.
Blockchain Can Reshape Financial Services… But it Will Take Significant Time and Investment
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Socrates in a Raincoat
David Weinberger
AUGUST 31, 2016
In 1974, the prestigious scholarly journal TV Guide published my original research that suggested that the inspector in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment was modeled on Socrates.
2016 Top Tools for Learning
Charles Jennings
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies’ 10th Anniversary ‘Top Tools for Learning’ Survey closes midday UK time on Friday 23 September 2016.
Him? Here? Now? No.
Dan Pontefract
AUGUST 19, 2016
I don’t want to die. As far as I know, thankfully, I’m not dying. But if we’re being honest with one another, I am not all that comfortable thinking about my death. Imminent or otherwise.
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