Informal Learning in 10 minutes

[bchannel100]

In my point of view formal learning up to some extend prevents innovative ideas arising in mind by creating some false beliefs like - all the theories are 100 % true and this kind of beliefs acts as some blocking factors in our mind like strong hypnotic suggestions,most of the people don't know how to break that shell (constraint).

[smallbizprivacy]

Good stuff! I guess the question we're left with is, how do you measure informal learning? Should it be followed up with formal tests?

[kiranbudhrani]

"The most powerful instructional technology ever invented is HUMAN CONVERSATION"- love this quote

[Fiaganja]

He's the Messiah everybody's been waiting for !

[filleyks]

kyllä.

[Replayability]

Please informally learn how to use a tripod or at least a stack of books.

[fied666]

it is filmed static, but the image stabilizer tries to avoid the movement of the face...

[timzhao1987]

who is he? so intelligent !!!

[jenninat0r]

And I think you're an informal teacher...! You've explained it better than most of my lecturers in university. You have a very positive outlook on new media's role in education, but like Henry Jenkins I also believe that the so-called "web 2.0" technologies can be put to good means and ends in the digital age.

Great video!

[dbzfan66]

I said all beef hot links!

[NeedToMeetNickJonas]

He's Cool :)

[bladergirl99]

is that ur grandfather or something

[dannycoulombe]

Very instructive! Direct contact with people is a very important learning method that I hasn't toke time to analyse before. As a french webmaster looking for a web to learn in this english web (because english is the universal language here), I think that a real eyes contact as demonstrated in your teaching, give a great help in learning confidence and stimulate positive orizons.

I hope that I was clear in that foreign language.

[CorbeauBlanc]

I am a student and I am shocked how much everything is about exams, especially in the british systems.

I always say, if school was good it would not need to be obligatory.

[trombone7]

Good video. You need to be bigger on the screen though. At no point did your face actually take up the entire screen. I think the biggest barrier to informal learning is a company not wanting to really go into "Why we do it this way." They don't want to conversationally uproot the motivations or lack of motivations, or how shallow monotonous or redundant entire departments of a company are. They'd rather put together a bullet-point email presentation and a multiple choice test. Thanks again.

[janicewhite]

Thanks for the conversation Jay! Your slides seemed to play the part of the respondent and there's nothing like eye contact to maintain attention. Good to find an interesting resource on an interesting topic - informal learning.

[amysue102]

Brilliant, Jay!

I'm trying to post this video on my blog, but it looks like YouTube doesn't support TypePad yet, so I'm just going to have to link to it...

[greenerthan]

Very nice video Jay. I've been following your work for a year, and this summary of your theses generated numerous quotables. Loved the myface metaphor, driving home your themes of human community. Did you at all intend to sacrifice a bit of your production value to the the closeup-induced fuzziness, perhaps in order to pluck a range of subconscious chords? Great use of MovieMaker too;

[jakeross1]

greenerthan, the production values story is this. 1) i recorded the video with my casio pocket camera mounted on a mini tripod on my desk. 2) i feel that impromptu, un-slick video has more credibility than studio production. what do you think? am i just rationalizing my crappy a/v skills?

[adaptivesoftware]

Very nice video on informal learning. When I do training sessions I realize that participants typically retain only a certain percentage of what they learned. However when peole learn informally they do it in the context of a certain activity, which fosters beter retention.

Thanks

Parag

[Sumduhmguy]

Well, this is the first comment. I think that this was worth the ten minutes of time I spent watching. I agree with your outlook on the subject of informal training in the workplace. The more relaxed a person is, the more receptive that person is to verbal information.