c an you remember one great learning experience you have had?

1. can you remember one great learning experience you have had?

2. where did this learning experience occur? A. in a classroom or workshop? B. while trying to complete a task? Photographlicenced to Duntroon Associates

3. 7 challenges for the21st century workforce (and ‘lack of knowledge’ isn’t one of them) Rapid information growth Dealing with increasingly unstructured information Experiencing shortening information half-life Expecting to be always connected Dealing with increasingly complex interactions Managing higher levels of ambiguity that require judgement Change, change, change … roles, jobs, strategy, focus … Informal Learning & the Changing World of Work

4. Learning IS the Work Thomas Kuhn and Paradigm Shifts “We can no longer posit that miasma causes disease or that ether carries light” Or that Industrial Age educational techniques work in the 21stCentury Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) Informal: Not ‘haphazard’ or ‘random’. Can only be ‘managed’ by the learner

5. Learning IS the Work From ‘Know What’ to ‘Know How’ Experience-rich learning rather than content-rich learning From Content to Context Learning through doing rather than learning through knowing Focus is on ‘knowledge transfer’content-rich experience-poor PRACTICE EXPERIENCE Focus is on ‘building know-how’‘content-find’ experience-rich Experiences Practice CONVERSATION REFLECTION Core Informal: Not ‘haphazard’ or ‘random’. Can only be ‘managed’ by the learner Conversations Reflection

6. Learning and 70:20:10 LearningProfessionalscanmanage Learningprofessionalscansupport Learningprofessionalscanlearn from Background : Harold Jarche & Jane Hart http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2010/03/04/categorising-learning-some-more-thoughts/ http://www.jarche.com/2010/03/interdependent-learning