... locating your friends and now proximity dating.    One of the big questions is who will dominate location ... This one's a recent article by Ross Dawson about trends in location-based mobile social networking.  Included, too, is a link to an excellent TechCrunch summary on the state of location-based social networking apps on the iPhone. If you're not familiar with the concept, think: your cell phone with a google map showing where all your friends ... about yourself and your interests on a related online service. Highlights from Dawson's article about trends ...

This month's the Big Question from Tony Karrer's Learning Circuits blog is 'What is your to-learn list'. The most important drive behind my learning list is my goal in life . Without my goal, I just absorb like a very undiscriminating sponge (nice, but not in high esteem in this particular day and age). Adding to my goal I make up my learning list. My learning list has varied through the years and it always featured a big amount of informal learning , but ... solar roof and wind turbine); - becoming better at writing stories, papers and articles; - finally learning how to pick ...

This month's ASTD Big Question is, again, a series of questions. Apparently one BIG question is not enough for the learning and development community. We aim to exceed expectations. If you have a to-learn list and are willing to share, and willing to share how you work with that list, that would likely be helpful information. I constantly have a "to-learn" list. Some of the items are necessary and some are "pie-in-the-sky." I tend to have two methods of working on ... knowledge worker produces are work. My to-do list contains items like: Write assessment report for DPW Write article ...

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This month, I worked with Tony Karrer to help create the ASTD Big Question (which always seems to be multiple questions under one big theme.) The main question is Learning design differences for Digital Natives? Of course I have ... scholarly approach...The sub-questions for this month's big question are: Do you believe that we have to design, develop and ... tools have become. We can't ignore them when we have a training class. The next question, Are there differences in ... for Learning and read some whitepapers, articles, acquire a book on the topic and even see some examples of ...

I am a big fan of big questions. I think that sessions like the Game Design Challenge and its "imitation ... to ask questions about what we can do. I love the Learning Circuits Blog Big Question of the Month (BQOTM) and ... that the BQOTM has a big brother out there and it asks REALLY big questions. The Edge describes it's purpose ... , and if you doubt the bigness of their questions, past ones have included; What is your dangerous idea?, What's you law ... room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves." The main way that Edge ...

... supporting Personal Learning ? This really relates to the questions being discussed in this month's Big Question ... I don't remember what I was reading, but the post/article differentiated learning as what the learner does and training as what we do to the person - and hopefully they learn. What's interesting is that eLearning has become pretty much synonymous with Online Training as opposed to use of technology for various kinds of learning. In a world: where we have to be responsible for our learning, where learning and work are often not separate activities, where there's ...

... and How Much? - The Learning Circuits Blog The Big Question - For a given project, how do you determine if, when and ... Note: this article came out before the big annoucement , however, it would make an excellent case study. By many ... those "big company" controls had a downside: they caused people to think about how to protect their own turf and ...

The Big Question this month are Predictions for Learning in 2008 . Here are my predictions, but ... and Learning Interventions My article coming out in January will spark discussion around what is actually a quite common ... - threaded discussions werent quite active enough and the questions werent focused. We need a targeted discussion. For ... . Prediction #10 => Knowledge Worker Skills - Just Beginning in 2008, Big in 2009 The discussion of knowledge work skills is going to be BIG ... We wont hear much this year, but in 2009, this will be something youll hear in a big ...

The ASTD Big Question for January is "What are your Predictions for Learning in 2008?" First, I am going to borrow from the December 2006 Big Question which I really liked. The three questions, now modified for 2008, are: What ... predictions for 2008? These are not easy questions to answer but here they are: What will you remember most about 2007? I ... 2008? Personally Try to keep up with writing books, book chapters, blog entries, articles, presentations, letters ... that seems to occur all at the same time. Time management is a big issue that I need to get some more control over ...

The Big Question this month are Predictions for Learning in 2008 . Here are my predictions, but realistically they ... Learning Interventions My article coming out in January will spark discussion around what is actually a quite common model ... - threaded discussions weren't quite active enough and the questions weren't focused. We need a targeted discussion. For ... . Prediction #10 => Knowledge Worker Skills - Just Beginning in 2008, Big in 2009 The discussion of knowledge work skills is going to be BIG ... We won't hear much this year, but in 2009, this will be something you'll hear in a big way.

I said in this post to see how I did for the year. Shortly, I'll be responding to this month's Big Question with my ... opportunities to create front-end tools? I am a big believer in the ability of web sites to provide simple forms that a ... writing articles on exactly these kinds of solutions. I continue to hope to find additional examples of these sorts of things because they still have the great potential to make a big difference for learners. Find Lots of Examples of ... LMS? Does a Learner WANT an LMS? I somewhat got this wrong as the big LMS vendors seem to now refer to themselves ...

... knowledge. This post can also be read as my personal answer to the Big Question for December, since the Hole in the ... : see for example this interesting article in the LA Times on the Trump University. I expect that within the family ...

... knowledge. This post can also be read as my personal answer to the Big Question for December, since the Hole in the ... example this interesting article in the LA Times on the Trump University. I expect that within the family (in ...

The Learning Circuits Blog has started up its monthly Big Question again and the question, perhaps appropriately as we see out what remains of the year, is 'what did you learn about learning in 2007?' I'm tempted to say 'most of it' because I've revised and revisited most of my assumptions at one point or another, not least in response to some whole new 'macro theories' ( George Siemens and Connectivism , Jay Cross and Informal Learning ) and a whole raft of ... as a formal course (on-job, classroom, online, blended) or be as informal as reading an article, attending a ...

I periodically get feedback from people on the value of having the varied perspectives that come in through the Big Questions. I'm sure that participants have seen that value as well (although it likely differs from month to month). I also wanted to point out that a recent T+D article Learning and Networking with a Blog used perspectives from the October 2006 Big Question - Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? You can see a bit more of the article that got deleted at: Learning and Networking with a Blog (Deleted Scenes) .