Personal Knowledge Management

I have been following the blog, and tweets of Harold Jarche for a while now, and thought that I need to make a start on my knowledge management. In particular, I have been reinvigorated with twitter as sharing and finding out about news, articles and info around things that interest me. Jarche talks about the need for managing/curating your knowledge . In essence how do you put it into place.

Anyway...some highlights from the last month of tweeting. Maybe I will make this a Weekly thing?!

Differences between Literacies, Skills and competencies I like listening to what Doug has to say in his blog.

"The important point to make here is that whilst competencies can be seen as ‘bundles of skills’, literacies cannot. You cannot become literate merely through skill acquisition – there are meta-level processes also required. To be literate requires an awareness that you are, indeed, literate."

Alex Williams talks about moving data....in homage to johnny Mnemonic...and another film reference in Possibly Minority report

Four billion smart phones will be sold between 2011 and 2015...  I guess mobile technology is changing our lives....

Mathew Ingram raises the question once again about mobile technology distracting our lives? I agree with the arguments against  it makes us less social.

"The democratization of connections, collisions and therefore thinking is historically unprecedented. We are the first generation to have the information equivalent of the Large Hadron Collider for ideas. And if that doesn’t change the way you think, nothing will."

Paul Prinsloo has a fab blog post about independent learners (I may have been hooked by the use of the lone ranger and don Quixote). An interesting post which reminded me of the acquisition and participation metaphors.

"...a more pertinent question is whether independence and autonomy are still valid characteristics of learners in the 21st century where collaboration and connected knowledge's are required and valued."

I have also giggled at maslow, social media style (A favourite of ours).

Steve Wheeler, another favourite blogger also kickstarted a week of looking at education in his stuck in the past blog. It picks up on some of the creativity and innovation that the vision of future learning in my last post highlighted.

The guardian offered some sobering food for thought  on graduates of 2012....

"This is the first generation able to treat knowledge like software: available for upload, use, upgrade and eventual disposal. They are able to start with levels of knowledge previous generations had to learn through a long process of ingestion and skill acquisition. Now all they need is for the economic model to catch up with the human potential technology has created."

We have had some positive stories about young people

ban on mobiles at school lifted

digital teens and the three ts

along with some negative or questioning ones,

Is surveillance the best way to protect kids

which makes one wonder, especially when you work with developing young people, about how we have managed to get such varied perceptions.

 But finally my favourite tweet...

'knowledge is like love.you can give it all away but you still get to keep it.'