In Part One of this series of blog postings, I asked the question:
“As business is becoming more social and we are using new social tools to work collaboratively with one another, do we really need another set of social tools specifically for learning?” Read more →
Business is Falling Behind
Business organizations are lagging reality. The 21st century is radically different from what came before and yet most businesses act as if nothing has changed.
Half of the adult population of the United States uses social media, up from 5% a scant six years. 750 million people converse on Facebook. A couple of hundred of us were blogging a dozen years ago; today 160 million people blog. Yet most corporations are reluctant to “take the risk” on social media. Read more →
We are hearing a lot about new social learning tools and platforms that are becoming available – but do you really need them in the workplace?
As business is becoming more social and we are using new social tools to work collaboratively with one another as we work, do we really need another set of social tools specifically for learning? Read more →
“we tell ourselves stories in order to live” ~ Haruki Murakami
Jerome Bruner (1915- ) is one of the greatest educational psychologists the world has ever produced. He has spent his long lifetime studying learning and the human mind. Still active and in post as a Research Professor at New York University in his 95th year, Bruner has long realised the value of conversations and story-telling as vital learning tools. His research has led him to point out that ‘our world is others’ and that we need to always take this into account in our approach to learning and development. Read more →
The bundles feature in Curated.by is very similar to Storify. They have not yet implemented the other media feature such as Flickr, YouTube etc., but they are coming. Also heard, via this video, that Curated.by are working with DataSift technology. Read more →
