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Comment on Work competency, literacy, and mastery by Sandy Hirtz

Sandy Hirtz — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:47:22 +0000

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Comment on Lessons learned and learned lessons by Joan Vinall-Cox

Joan Vinall-Cox — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:01:35 +0000

I like this angle of looking at learning, however I believe a radical disruption has occurred with the introduction of new technology – the old(er) masters know the theory and concepts but not the new technology, while the journeymen know the software but not necessarily the theory and concepts. Sometimes the masters in certain areas are simply displaced, leaving people performing tasks in areas where they don’t even have the apprentice level of know-how – as I discussed in http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/old-skills-new-know-how/

Comment on Lessons learned and learned lessons by Tony Karrer

Tony Karrer — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:24:42 +0000

Brett – great to hear you say this. I’m very much looking forward to continued conversation. I’ve been reading your posts with great interest.

A big part of the goal at WL is to help figure out how to help early majority knowledge workers to be able to take advantage of PKM kind of ideas where it will help THEM as an individual. I believe there are lots of people roughly working on this idea, but there’s not a good place to get help if you are one of the early majority.

Comment on What if Benjamin Franklin had a blog? by Michele Martin

Michele Martin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:30:26 +0000

Brett, I agree completely with you that Ben Franklin probably would have loved blogs. I actually think that most of the Founding Fathers would have been into blogging, as it would have extended their abilities to have ongoing conversations about all of those things that they loved. I could see the Federalist Papers as a series of blog posts, certainly. And in Ben’s case, can’t you picture him with a blog chronicling his various experiments and interests? What is most interesting to consider is whether or not they would have used a wiki to write the Declaration of Independence. And if they did, would it have been better or worse?

Comment on Lessons learned and learned lessons by Brett

Brett — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:25:10 +0000

Tony, to be honest I’m not sure if I buy it all or not either. I actually wrote the bulk of this post in draft nearly a year ago, it has been my discovery of Work Literacy ideas that got me looking at it all again.

Though I started working in KM at the organizational level, over the years this has become more an interest at the PKM level. More recently this has taken on a focus on the ideas of personal mastery. My influences in this have come mainly from the trades, the martial arts (specifically Aikido), and other athletics.

I am also looking at this from a very personal perspective. Though I used to work in the “KM Field”, now I am interested in KM, PKM, Work Literacy (WL?) on a more practical personal level. I’m just a knowledge worker who enjoys what he does and wants to learn how to do it better.

Comment on Lessons learned and learned lessons by Tony Karrer

Tony Karrer — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:38:31 +0000

I’m not sure I’m buying that all of this needs to be apprentice, craft growth. Looking forward to hear more from you about it.

Comment on How do knowledge workers, especially new ones, learn how to be knowledge workers? by Tony Karrer

Tony Karrer — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:12:55 +0000

These are great questions.