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Things I Learned About Knowledge
Written by Harold Jarche CC License   
Sunday, 21 March 2010

Some things I learned about knowledge this past year.

About  knowledge management: Codified knowledge (documents, lists, reports, best practices) is effective in organizations that have mostly new staff or high turnover, like a pizza franchise. It does not help teams to produce any better unless the team is rather inexperienced. Interpersonal sharing can be more effective for some teams but it is time-consuming and requires “slack time” for experienced team members to take advantage of it. Lesson: You cannot run your senior staff at full-steam all the time and no amount of electronic documentation is going to help except to get inexperienced people up to speed.

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Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding and Supporting Games Education
Written by admin   
Monday, 25 January 2010

The aviation industry is slowly moving away from simple pedagogical teaching methods.  Talking-heads have morphed into power-point avatars asthe dependancy on technology further removes teaching skills from instructors.  Now it is time for instructors to move into a new area of skill; using games and simulations.

Games and simulation is an area that can greatly enhance the learning experience for potential pilots, engineers and air traffic controllers.  The latest generation of learners is highly entertainment based in thinking and worldview.  Typical "ground school" is considered boring and unfulfilling unless the instruction engages the learner and challenges their interest. It seems like teaching about games should be easy. After all, students enjoy engaging with course content and have extensive experience with videogames. However, games education can be surprisingly complex.

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Last Updated ( Monday, 25 January 2010 )
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Do I Need to Know It, or Just How to Find It?
Written by Michael Dupuis   
Thursday, 21 January 2010

Do we really need to know how a particular piece of equipment is designed or the minute details of regulations?  It is all grist for the mill and part of the age old debate in aviation that probably started with the invention of the venerable E6B whiz-wheel.  I am old enough to remember the doom-sayers crying out from the mountain tops when the pocket calculator was reviled as the end of mathematics.

In this age of information, with references to weather, regulations and manuals only a few key-strokes away, it makes us wonder how much time need be devoted by new students in learning content vs. how to access it.

The following brief article was written by George Seimens, a popular bloger and adult education specialist with links to an article published in the New York Times about this very subject and how it is affecting other industries.

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New Paper on S1000D and SCORM Bridging Strategy Posted
Written by admin   
Sunday, 17 January 2010

ADL Job Performance Technology Center Director, Wayne Gafford, and Paul Jesukiewicz, ADL Initiative Director, recently presented their peer-reviewed paper, A Technical Development Strategy for Bridging S1000D™ and SCORM®, at the 2009 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), held in Orlando, Florida from November 30 through December 3.

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Pearls of Wisdom
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
        --Socrates

 Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
        --W. Edwards Deming

That which is static and repetitive is boring.
That which is dynamic and random is confusing.
In between lies art.
        --John A. Locke

"In times of change, it is the learners who will inherit the earth, while
the learned will be beautifully equipped for a world that no longer
exists."
-Eric Hoffer    


Student resistance to new ideas and perspectives is an expected dimension of intellectual development that offers educators an opportunity to deepen student learning. - M.G.Dupuis