Net Work Learning.mp4

1.The way we have worked for the past century, and the way most of were taught how to work, is drastically changing. This change is on par with mass migration from farms to factories that happened about a century ago.
2.More of our economy is based on intangible goods, such as services or software, than ever before. In Canada, 69% of GDP is derived from service industries, while the Standard & Poor stock index is over 80% intangible valuation.
3.As we become more networked, our relationships get more complicated and even complex. Digital information and knowledge flows are not linear so indirect or loose connections become more valuable in such an economy.
4.We have seen this growing complexity in many aspects of our lives. Our governing models, our business structures, and our ways to support learning are all getting more complex.
5.The Cynefin model shows that best practices are suitable for simple environments; good practices for complicated ones; emergent practices for complex environments and novel practices for chaotic situations. Complexity is the 21st century norm because - simple work is becoming automated and - complicated work is getting outsourced to the cheapest labour market. What's left for paying work in the developed world is dealing with complex or even chaotic situations and problems.
6.Emergent practice means learning as we go, or trying out something and seeing if it works. If not, we have learned and can try something else. Traditional training and schooling are ill-equipped to prepare us for this type of work.
7.We need to avoid making things simpler than they are, as Henry Mencken, the American satirist wrote, For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.
8.Modern work is like reading the changing waves and trying not to sink in an ocean of information and expanding knowledge. It's a constant effort on a changing sea.
9.An economy based on intangibles means that much business is in connecting ideas and people. The Law of the Few was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point, and it explained the roles of Mavens, Connectors and Salespeople. They are all involved in the process of connecting ideas to people. Identifying Mavens, Connectors and Salespeople will be a normal part of business.
10.A starting point in becoming an effective Net Worker is to develop our own sense-making processes. These include aggregating sources of information and knolwedge; filtering and analyzing; and connecting ideas together.
11.As groups of people aggregate, filter and connect ideas; these can be shared through social learning. Connecting ideas to people and people to people is key to social learning. Open sharing in transparent networks serves to speed social learning, a new business imperative.
12.Combining personal and social learning in an open and sharing environment is at the heart of personal knowledge management or PKM. Enhanced serendipity, or finding things you weren't looking for, is an emergent process of these activities. Social learning is how knowledge is generated in networks - and networks are where many of us will be working
13.The Network Era is blurring the lines between working, learning and playing. Work will no longer be defined by an eight-hour shift at a separate location. Net work means learning to work anew.
14.Feel free to join in the ongoing conversations on learning and working on the web at jarche.com

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Education

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• informal learning
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[ed4wb]

Great video. Thanks for making this. Touches on so many important concepts and does so clearly, concisely and with flair.