Apr 14th, 2010
Two recent blog posts; “Forget about copying best practices,” by Oscar Berg and the very compelling follow-on, “Why Best Practices Don’t Work for Knowledge Work,” by Luis Suarez pose the fundamental validity question regarding the concept commonly known as: “best practice?” Though the two posts make entirely differing and compelling arguments against the ‘bp’ concept, [...]
Aug 15th, 2009
I have been following the majority of academic work in the broadly defined fields related to knowledge practices from before the term knowledge management found any footing in our common vocabulary. (I’m an old guy.) But the point is, I’ve seen most of what has transpired in this running history.
IMHO, of the hundreds of academic [...]
Feb 10th, 2009
I have been following the mentions of Personal Leaning Environments for over a year now. I continue to be amazed at how badly the concept and the practices employed are misappropriated. Its a mess. Then I found this old article by Tony Karrar on the topic and decided to put my two cents in.
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Dec 22nd, 2008
In my previous post: WTS, I introduced an on-line book and accompanying materials. This is part 2 of my book report for Working Through Screens (WTS) by Jacob Burghard. Please forgive the long title of this post, but its the one that “fits.”
WTS is a comprehensive examination of how one is to consider and approach [...]
Dec 18th, 2008
Late last week, I happened upon one of the most interesting website/information posts I have seen in quite some time: Working Through Screens. This information comes in the form of an innovative, multi-function on-line book with some supporting materials. Both the information contained within this book/materials and the company (Flashbulb Interaction) that the information comes [...]
Dec 7th, 2008
Continuing my examination from the earlier post; “Defining Knowledge Work as a Domain,” I thought it might be insightful to look at perhaps the activity that knowledge work is most centered in: learning.
The dictionary will tell you that learning is: 1. to come to be able. 2. to come to realize. 3. to come to [...]