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To help clarify this and to begin thinking through implications for Work Literacy Skills , I went back through a couple of different sources. Thomas Davenport classifies KnowledgeWork Types in Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers using a variety of classifications.
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According to Wikipedia (2007) “…an expert, more generally, is a person with extensive knowledge or ability in a particular area of study.” ~ Building Expertise , Ruth Clark Today, we need experts and in more diverse areas than we even know. I am talking about knowledgework here. But I digress.
Learning from Our Kids In my keynote, I mentioned a Fourth Grade Wikipedia Update. Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? even our millennials, who use these tools all day long--don't view them as work tools yet. eLearning 2.0
But there was another significant trend in the answers… Learning and Work Converge In a world where KnowledgeWork and Learning is Inseparable , finding ways to support and improve work is the same as finding ways to support and improve learning. Who in an organization is responsible for supporting and improving work?
In other words, in a world with Wikipedia, blogs, social networking, etc. - not to mention in a world of Google as the interface to knowledge - what new skills, techniques and tools do we need? So, I am very glad that George pointed me back here, because this gets into exactly what I was hoping for from him.
And when I discuss what the new skills are around knowledgework, I quickly arrive a the biggest changes being things like finding expertise , finding answers , using social media to find answers , and learning through conversation. The common threads here are: People Networks To me, the biggest work literacy gap is in this area.
In presentations, I often will cite this as an example of the kinds of changes in work skills that have occurred and are constantly occurring. A big part of education is learning how to do research and really that's where you learn the foundations of knowledgework. Contrast this with a A Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update.
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However, society moved on, the world of work changed, and the industrialised processes were replaced by knowledgeworking. And yet, although society has moved on, industrialised processes still persist in all sectors of education. It is more comfortable to stay the same, than it is to change.
Wikipedia). Intuitive knowledge. Intuitive knowledge is what Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes in Thinking Fast and Slow as System 1. Intuitive knowledgeworks with patterns; it knows no words. Snow contended that scientists did not understand the humanities and humanists did not understand science.
Old-style training enraged many managers because it was separate from work. Why isn’t Sally at work today? It needn’t be this way, particularly since knowledgework and learning are nearly indistinguishable. Most corporate learning today can take place simultaneously with work. Because she’s in training.
Wikipedia). Intuitive knowledge . Intuitive knowledge is what Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes in Thinking Fast and Slow as System 1. Intuitive knowledgeworks with patterns; it knows no words. Snow contended that scientists did not understand the humanities and humanists did not understand science.
Working smarter is the key to sustainability and continuous improvement. Knowledgework and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable. The accelerating rate of change in business forces everyone in every organization to make a choice: learn while you work or become obsolete. Wikipedia 363.
Learnscapes : where informal learning and knowledgework converge. People learn to do their work in small chunks: a tip from a pal, an “ah-ha moment&# after trying something new, a factoid from Wikipedia or Google, a glimpse of someone doing something well, or a story told over lunch. Time is all we have (CLO mag).
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