This is a bit polished version of my notes from the I-KNOW 03 day 1. I went to the workshop about communities.
Oliver Vopel: “In order to reduce complexity and ambiguity one does not need more knowledge but more confidence”
Matteo Bonifacio is a great presenter – I’m happy that he will be speaking at KM summer school. He presents two different scenarios about a same person. One with decision-making as a result of access to all kind or resources in KM system and another on changing a reality by asking questions (so your prediction at the end is not a prediction, you made it). Then he refers to four groups of KM approaches to explain and contrast these scenarios. There is more in the presentation, so I hope it will be on-line.
There is an interesting comment that makes a dichotomy between time to learn vs. time to do things. Matteo adds that probably it’s not about time as such, but about responsibility that you have for the results. If it’s high you will focus more on getting things done and have less space for learning. With less responsibility to learn more, but sometimes do not get results right. Jay Cross adds that learning is part of the work. Another comment is related to the time horizon of learning: learning for the future looks like learning, but learning for immediate work looks like work.
I’m thinking about both perspectives: each of them is true. I agree that any work you do brings you something to learn, so learning is embedded into work. But I think that this is mainly “experience building” part of Kolb’s learning cycle, with some degree of reflection. But you need more time and less work pressure for more reflective mode of learning and definitely for discovering and changing your mental models and learning habits (see a bit about it in my discussion with Sebastian)
Tags: I-KNOW, informal learningArchived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/07/03.html#a652; comments are here.
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