Graphic: Network Learning Path to the Future
Citizen-CenteredNetwork Learning to Team/Autonomous Learning
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Harold Jarche » Network Learning: Working Smarter
At its core, network learning is a way to deal with an ever-increasing amount of digital information. It requires an open attitude toward learning and finding new things. Each worker needs to develop individualized processes of filing, classifying and annotating information for later retrieval.
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Network Learning: Working Smarter
Posted on October 22nd, 2010 by Harold Jarche
“In the period ahead of us, more important than advances in computer design will be the advances we can make in our understanding of human information processing – of thinking, problem solving, and decision making…” ~ Herbert Simon, Economics Nobel-prize winner (1968)
The World Wide Web is changing how many of us do our work as we become more connected to information and each other. In California, Ray Prock, Jr. (2010) uses a Web-based note system to store messages, manage his financial risk and stay on top of the multiple factors necessary to run a successful dairy farm. He is constantly learning as he works and has found a method to keep up, thanks to the Internet.
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Trending: Torture and Toxic Army Leaders
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General Patraeus, one of the four generals featured in the book, The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army is easily one of the best and brightest of our generation. I was surprised to read about his opening the door to torture.
NY Daily News, Saturday, June 25th 2011
And on the other end–concerns rising within the US Army about “toxic leaders.” Too many of them, perhaps greater in proportion at higher ranks.
Army Survey Raises Worries Over Damage Caused By ‘Toxic' Leaders
Washington Post, June 26, 2011
Phi Beta Iota: We asked Col Stu Herrington, USA (Ret), Army counterintelligence officer/interrogator with successful interrogation experience in three wars, what he thought of the matter of General Patraeus opening the door on torture, and here is what he thinks–we have to concur.
Review: Planning with Complexity – An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy
4 Star, Complexity & Resilience, Decision-Making & Decision-Support, Democracy
Judith Innes, David Booher
Excellent but Not Perfect, June 25, 2011
The authors claim to be addressing a new theory of collaborative rationality. The Native Americans called this “seventh generation thinking.” It is neither new nor rational alone, but rather holistic. I bought and read this book along with Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe, and the two go very well together. Both are directly founded on John Dewey's 1927 work, Public & Its Problems, and both fail to mention Will Durant's 1916 thesis, Philosophy and the Social Problem: The Annotated Edition.
Key ingredients are thinking differently, dialog as information discovery and exchange, and knowledge operations via dialog–Juanita Brown and David Isaacs call this The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter.
Review: Democracy as Problem Solving – Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe
4 Star, Democracy, Public Administration
Xavier N. De Souza Briggs
5 for Academics, 4 for Isolation from Corruption, June 25, 2011
I am stunned to not see a review of this book published in 2008. It certainly merits attention and inclusion in any dialog about democracy.
The author caught my attention immediately in the preface, observing that US democracy “looks awfully stunted and stymied.”
The author does a first rate job of summarizing the book in advance, the core focus being on democracy as civic capacity.
QUOTE (ix): “This blurring of the traditional divide between direction setting (policy making) and outcomes (implementation) is at the heart of the story…”
I am less interested in the case studies (urban growth, restructuring economy, and investing in youth), and much more interested in the author's concise presentation of his findings.
Van Jones Ascendant: Rebuild the Dream
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VAN JONES:
We are not broke.
Taxing the super-rich will not kill the economy.
Most patriotic thing we can do is NOT taking down the US Government.
All three of those are big lies.
Let's rebuild the dream.
In the coming weeks, people all across the country will come together for American Dream house meetings. Let's talk about what a new American Dream looks like and commit to stand together to make it happen.
Find an American Dream house meeting near you. We want YOU to be part of this movement, from the very beginning.
See Also:
Van Jones and The Roots To Launch “Rebuild the Dream” Calling For Investment in Middle Class
Reference: USA Counterintelligence Glossary
Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD, Intelligence (government)
Phi Beta Iota: This is an extraordinarily good contribution–a virtual compendium of every side of the secret world. Amusingly it acknowledges that 90% of what we need to know comes from open sources of intelligence without noting the irony that we spend $80 billion on everything other than open sources. It repeats the US Government mis-conception that open sources are “second-hand,” and it neglects multinational intelligence and counterintelligence precisely because the US Government refuses to be serious about that necessary evolution. Over-all, an absolute pleasure to read, a serious contribution.
