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Welcome to the 6th Working/Learning blog carnival! Thanks very much to Dave Ferguson for kicking it off and letting us host it this time (more details and how you can host it, here,) and to all the very talented folks who’ve contributed the posts you’re about to enjoy. And we’re off …
- Ferguson writes about using training as a last resort after fully evaluating workflow and incentive structures so that it can be true performance support.
- Laurie Bartels writes about an expansive view of professional development that, as she quoted Elkhonon Goldberg saying, turns “neuroplasticity to your advantage.” Mmm, neuroplasticity.
- Karyn Romeis encourages people not to get so caught up in predetermined steps that they forget how much fun learning is and how much they can enjoy it.
- Ken Allan writes about the energy required for the learning process, and how it can be supplied by a teacher’s pedagogical and scaffolding techniques even for individualized elearning. And I’ve seen the truth of his conclusion in my own studies, that without the meta-cognition of what you’re building towards, as supplied by an instructor or a learner of a certain level, self-directed learning can lose focus quickly.
- Harold Jarche thinks that if mass marketing is dead, mass training will soon follow.
- Penny Ryder is interested in feedback about how to build links with her students’ parents so she can be a more effective instructor.
And … that’s it, everyone! I’ve had a great time reading through these contributions and would recommend hosting the carnival to anyone whose day is brightened when their inbox gets loaded with good reading material. See you around next time 
One Response to “Working/Learning Carnival, 6th Ed.”
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November 18th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Kia ora Leean
Sorry I’ve taken so long to get to this stage! Thanks for your write-ups here.
I appreciate the work you have done behind the scenes. It does not go un-noticed.
Ka kite
from Middle-earth