Harold Jarche has an interesting set of posts discussing the role of curriculum in public school education, and the impact it can/does have on our children. In a post today, Harold explains his issues with public school curriculum:
If you travel frequently by air, I think you’ll understand where I’m coming from. Originally posted 15 May 2003. = = == === ===== Moo, moo….. That’s how I felt earlier this week going through security at Newark airport. I was recently re-reading parts of Thinking In Pictures : and Other Reports from My Life [...]
At a break between meetings at a recent big get together, the following defintion of a knowledge worker occurred to me:
A knowledge worker is someone that makes it up as they go along.
Instead of nearly 6,000 pages of notes, many on what is essentially loose-leaf paper, in no particular order and with no way to correlate them, we might have 6,000 (or more, if you count the estimated 10,000 pages that haven’t survived to the present day) tagged, cross-linked, commented blog posts.
In the hands of Benjamin Franklin, a master of getting his message out in the media of the day, I can only imagine how the media tools of today could be used. (I’m sure it would be much more than a simple collection of links.)
In one of my very first blog posts (my second, actually), I asked the question, “What is knowledge management, anyway?” Like many others, I’ve never really found a truly satisfactory answer, though there are very many answers to chose from. In the post KM 0.0…, Dave Pollard presents this definition: KM is simply the art [...]
The question of how a knowledge worker learns how to be a knowledge worker begs the question, “What is knowledge work?” Lilia Efimova has some thoughts on this in her post Knowledge Work Framework (PKM + Tasks).
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