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Black swan: a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations. Every organization has black swans that push the things forward. This is where such people convene to support each other and grow.
Black Swans, by definition are disruptive. We don't always agree with each other - indeed we shouldn't, if we want true discussion. But we love to engage in healthy debate and always do our best for our learners. We love PROGRESS.
The best part: as a quasi-secret society, we get to hang out with people who understand our motivations and our passions.
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Active membership includes posting and/or commenting at least once a week. There are lots of ways to do this, as this community has blogs, wikis, member pages and discussion boards.
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Some Twitter folks are getting together to discuss "how people learn" as evidenced in King's On Writing and Gawande's Complications. Both books are examples of adult learners who learn through practice/reflect on learning. Interested? Details are at the [...]
Posted by jane.bozarth • 20 days ago • View comments
"One of the frustrations in Learning & Development is the reality of what happens when the worker returns to the job. A thousand things stand between a learner and performance; among the biggest of these is the learner’s manager." This month's "Nu [...]
Posted by jane.bozarth • 22 days ago • View comments
Apologies for the long silence, and a warning that I am thoroughly jet-lagged! I have been to the north-western USA. The first week was an abortive business trip, the second was spent visiting family. I felt the need to share my reflections of the differ [...]
Posted by Karyn Romeis • 23 days ago • View comments
In the course of my interviews for the mobile learning book, Robert Gadd (OnPoint Digital) made a comment that’s stuck with me. He opined that the new ‘cigarette’ break was the social media break where employees will stand outside with their m [...]
Posted by Aaron • 23 days ago • View comments
The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question of the Month is “Does the discussion of “how the brain learns” impact your eLearning design?” My answer is in several parts. The short answer is “yes”, of course, because my PhD is in Cognitive Psy [...]
Posted by Aaron • 26 days ago • View comments
Currently ADL is in the process of improving its support of SCORM 1.2 and 2004. If you have five minutes, would you please help guide us in supporting you by filling out this survey?
Posted by Aaron • 29 days ago • View comments
Was on a call with my Internet Time Alliance colleagues, and we were talking about how to help organizations make the transition from delivering courses to supporting the full performance ecosystem. Jane Hart has had a recent series on what she call [...]
Posted by Aaron • 31 days ago • View comments
After we broke the news that we planned to disband the ThinkBalm Innovation Community, members of the community expressed lots of interest in finding new leadership for the community moving forward. We are excited to announce that effective immediately, T [...]
Posted by koreen33 • 34 days ago • View comments
Many years ago, I responded to a broad query by Jefferey Bonar asking what was the interface metaphor we really wanted. I responded something to the effect of wanting ‘magic’. This was in the early days of the desktop metaphor, and w [...]
Posted by Aaron • 34 days ago • View comments
Understanding is constructed around people, places and shared experiences. Extending the Internet to accomodate this model has broad implications around learning, work, play and identity.
Posted by Aaron • 34 days ago • View comments