When I read, I have a tendency to mark up my books with notes and to write down key passages and thoughts in a notebook (and this blog on occassion). In the notebook, I try to draw connections - in time, space, etc - because everything is, after all, connected in some way. [...]
In my last post I put down some thoughts about how blogs could be used as a form of tacit knowledge capture since it documents the thought process in the development of many different ideas, many times in pursuit of a “finished” product. Catching up (who am I kidding? I’ll never catch up) with [...]
From the wikipedia definition of tacit knowledge is this short paragraph:
By definition, tacit knowledge is not easily shared. One of Polanyi’s famous aphorisms is: “We know much more than we can tell.” Tacit knowledge consists often of habits and culture that we do not recognize in ourselves.
In a brief conversation through blog posts and comments, [...]
One of the biggest challenges I’ve come across in how best to use technology is the process of developing documents that have many authors, or collaborative authoring. A typical process goes something like this:
Someone is assigned as configuration manager
The initial draft is created and sent, usually via e-mail, to all reviewers/contributors
Comments/changes are sent back [...]
Can you really know something if you didn’t learn it?
I was sitting in a meeting the other day in which a group of engineers was giving a presentation on some analysis of a system they are working on. The slides were well done and had a lot of “information” on them. As I was looking [...]
A couple of articles discussing the limitation of Learning Management Systems (LMS):
Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start elearning (elearnspace)
The real issue is that LMS vendors are attempting to position their tools as the center-point for elearning - removing control from the system’s end-users: instructors and learners. Unfortunately, beginning learning with an LMS [...]
For the past couple of months I’ve watched my son, Ian, prepare for his first trampoline meet, coming up this weekend. It is an amazing example of the use of negative feedback in the learning process. You try something, figure out what you did wrong, try it again, until you’re happy with [...]
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