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Agonizing over social learning?
By Christine Martell | August 4, 2008
A while back I wrote a post on Learning Frameworks, about work being done by Ray Jimenez Ph. D. He dropped by the post and left a comment, where he says he agonizes:
I agonize about social learning. For me there is a huge jump from traditional learning to Web 2.0/social learning. I must be really growing old and part of me resists to just jump. My liability is that “I have the need” to think through, whereas the digital natives “don’t think through.” They jump into and swim. Phew … I remember the days when I too would just jump, I think ignorance has its own blessings. (Mine or the young person? Hmmmm. We are both ignorant, suppose.)
He goes on to share another framework in Deepening Social Learning to Work Performance - Proposed Model.
He says:
Instead of outrigthly dismissing the formal structure as old and antiquated and have no place in Learning 2.0, might it be possible that the formal structure can serve as a social learning model but with an added element - the element of a deepening process?
The Shifting Role of the Trainer
What do we do when content is generated by the users? Ray suggests we become trainer-facilitator-network weavers. Is our role shifting to be more of a guide? Creating rich resource pools which learners can dip into as needed?
I’m beginning to understand more why Ray is agonizing over social learning. Not only are we being asked to help others make fundamental changes in how they interact with technology, we need to do it first in order to be able to guide others. The longer I immerse myself, the more I see how fundamental these shifts are in how I operate as a learning professional.
How ready are you to jump in and swim?
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August 4th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
[...] Christine Martell’s post on ASTD today concerns how we, as training natives, might need to adapt to use social learning. She references Ray Jimenez’s post expressing similar concerns. Christine asks, What do we do when content is generated by the users? Ray suggests we become trainer-facilitator-network weavers. Is our role shifting to be more of a guide? Creating rich resource pools which learners can dip into as needed? [...]
August 4th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Agonizing? I think this is FUN! I am loving this road we are going down and think that while we will need to change, it is a fun ride we are all on.
Here are some more thoughts on this: http://engagedlearning.net/?p=170
August 5th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Kevin,
So we have people like you (and me most of the time) who think it is fun, and are incorporating these tools into our daily work practices. We have people like Ray who are agonizing— and developing tools to help make it work better. What about the rest of our colleagues? This ASTD chapter has been using podcast, blogs, and the Ning for a couple of years. How much adoption do you think we have? Is our membership getting on board? Or are they staying in the audience?