Monday December 10 we will have a webinar with Jane Hart. It will not be a ‘traditional webinar’, but we make it a ‘Flipped Webinar’. You probably have heard about that model? If not, you can read more in Dan Pink’s article in The Telegraph here. This means that we make the start with a blogpost, giving you the opportunity to get into the subject of the webinar and start thinking of some questions it might raise. In the webinar we spend time discussing the topic, sharing experiences from practice, and discussing your questions, and their applications and implications for workplace learning.
So, what should we ask you to read? Well Jane has been writing a lot, as you may well know, about the use of social media for learning and, in conjunction with her Internet Time Alliance colleagues (Jay Cross, Harold Jarche, Charles Jennings and Clark Quinn), a lot too on the importance of working smarter. One of her latest blogposts is about ‘learning the old’ versus ‘learning the new’, and this might make an interesting start. So here’s the article to get you started:
>> Learning the old vs. Learning the new.
Now, in order that we have time to prepare for the webinar on Monday, it would be great if you could leave your questions in the comments area below by the end of Sunday 9th. If you would like to ask Jane any other questions, please feel free to leave them here too! Of course there will also be an opportunity to ask other questions in the webinar itself.
We, Jane and Sibrenne, look forward to reading your questions – and talking with you on Monday 10th at 15.00 Amsterdam time in our webinar!
My main question is: how do we help others to learn the new? Still a lot of people like to stick to the old because it’s (it feels) comfortable and safe. Why change if the old works perfect for them? (is their question)
Some directives or a short manual would be great 😉
Thanks!
Reading the article “learning the old versus learning the new” made me think about when I studied art. One of the first things we learned that it was not so much about learning techniques but about developping your own ideas, look for ressources and inspiration and choose and learn techniques and acquire knowledge on the basis of what you needed to be able express you ideas.
Many people already organise and manage their own learning, try to keep up with the flow of new ideas, etc. For me the most important difference using social media lays in the co-creation and sharing with people who you might not know and will probably never meet. With the help of social media one is able to produce or achieve things that would not be possible without connecting to other people. Are there tools/methods you can show to people or let them experience the way co-creation works?
Eventhough I’m getting through the course a good idea of the possiblilities of social media, I’m still not sure how important the technique is. I’m still struggling using tools. This is slowing down my learning proces and I’m getting from time to time quite frustrated. How do you think you can keep people/collegues who are less motivated to use social media, interested to invest time to get the level that the use social media helps them to make more sense of their work en work more effectively?
Hello, I started my prepartion an bit late, sorry! My english is bad, so my sons tell me 🙁
My question is: “how can mix relevant new knowledgde with the day to day work of ‘not-knowledge’ people?”
An example: Where I work the business is renting en maintaining houses. For the job we need to know how communicate with clients, know the law and have knowledge of technical aspects to prevend dangerous situations. How can we stay put with new developments, distribute that to / share it with collegues and use it.