Interview: Lippman on Learning: Fundamental Changes. Quote:
You've said that distance learning doesn't scale. Is that correct?

It doesn't scale because it can't include the experience. It is hard to wholeheartedly fall in love with distance learning because the truth of the matter is, there is a chemistry involved in being in the place. There is just no way that you can match that chemistry through any kind if wire.

Comment: An Interview with Andrew Lippman, founding associate director of MIT's Media Laboratory... [Serious Instructional Technology]

One great quote:

Tom Magliozzi, MIT grad and co-host of the Car Talk [National Public Radio] program lectured in one of our classes and noted how we seem to do education backwards: we teach kids techniques before they have any appreciation for what use those techniques have and before they have any personal meaning. That is a recipe for segregating school from life. His answer was to do it the other way around: first work, then learn as you need to.

The rest of the interview is also full of good stuff on learning and knowledge work

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Art of the Weblog. Now that Victor (the Arch-Anti-MetaBlogger) has started metablogging, I feel it's OK to point to Mark Bernstein's ten tips (in progress):

1. Write for a reason
2. Write often
3. Write tight
4. Make good friends
5. Choose good enemies
6. Let the story unfold
7. Stand up, speak out
8. Be sexy
9. Use your archives
10. Relax

A wealth of storytelling experience underpins those brief suggestions. I'm hard pressed to find a suggestion I don't agree with -- which is not to say that I've been able to follow every one. Looking back over the seven weeks I've been writing this blog, I wish I'd had his list to guide me from the start.

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Jan Karlsbjerg 's Blogging to substantiate trust riff on Adam Curry's trust essay has pearls of wisdom for the career-minded.

Jan > Meeting me in person is an unpredictable experience. Reading a random post on this weblog is an unpredictable experience. But just like spending a month or two working with me on some project will tell you more about me, reading a full month or two of posts here (or any other writing that I do) will show you who I am.

Of course, the person least likely to comprehend fit is the recruiter.

Who will understand you and your ideas?

People you'll wind up working with or for.

How will they come to your blog spaces?

1. Search engines, if you are writing about things they care about.
2. Word of mouth, as you attract readership and build a reputation.
3. Direct marketing, as you promote yourself into circles you care to enter. "Here's my CV and my blog."

Trust matters. So does comprehension. [community, klogs, staffing]

[a klog apart]

something to mull over.

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Dave W. "I have a confession to make. Radio is also an outliner." Hey, I use Radio's outliner every day (I keep a copy of 7 around so I can save as html, a command I hear's broken in 8). It's not perfect, but very little software actually is. I'm looking forward to UserLand's focus to swing back to around the outliner to see what they'll cook up next. [Steven's Weblog]

Ditto - I've been using the outliner in Radio since its first incarnation as Pike. Pretty much every word I've written in the last few years has flowed through Radio/Pike.

I can understand why Dave hasn't yet emphasized the outliner, but it's the essential reason I'm sticking with Radio as a blogging tool.  I'm looking forward to new mind bombs from Dave in this realm.

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