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Bob Marshall on what an effective group workshop looks like--September 30, 2014, quite demanding yet doable. he above story illustrates a range of features of an effective workshop: Certain shared proficiencies in e.g. Skilled Dialogue, Lean Coffee, etc.. Pre-reading (shared), including "standard" texts - here including Nancy Kline and Chris Argyris. Clarity of purpose "just why are we here?". Shared purpose "we're all here for the same things". Folks tweeting and googling continuously during the workshop. Amanuensis / cybrarian to facilitate shared learning in the workshops. Democratic agenda-setting. Mutual exploration of topics. Active curiosity. "Essentiality" - avoidance of rabbit-holes and extraneous discussion of details. Focus on impacts (as compared to busyness, or outputs, or even outcomes). Post-reading - following up new references. Follow-up conversations, actions. Feedback. - Bob Afterword In writing this story, it seemed to me that a video of a workshop in action would be a great addition to the resources available to BaCo staff to help them appreciate the nature of an effective workshop. Maybe one day I'll have the opportunity to write and/or direct such a video. Further Reading What is Dialogue? ~ Susan Taylor (pdf) Share this: inShare10 Email Print More

Complete text of the WIOA H.R. 803.

Very scary video (4 minutes) by Mark Cuban on how privacy is violated because digital history is retained forever. Inc. How ownership shifts from author to recipient who may misuse it in any # of ways. Of course, Cuban is developing erasure apps that delete texts after a certain amount of time. Talks about tweets in particular. Unfollowing people who could be sending wrong message.

Remember the Human--like this rule and the paradox presented in it--internet brings together people who would not otherwise know each other; some then act out because the medium (text) is too impersonal.

The Chronicle of Research Services issued this report: The College 2020: Students. Although from 2013, it has a great section on a poll from students who identified the rigidity of University learning was stifling them. Their suggestions included customizable text books, mobile learning, and self-directed curricula.

Article from NYT Blogs by Claire Cain Miller, 2012, on $22.5m fine levied by Consumer Protection, FTC, against Google for collecting data on where Safari browser users visit online to construct ads to market to them.

Uses six spaces in digital terms and adapts them for use in a classroom--15 minute video on Seven Spaces example--narrated by Ewan McIntosh Secret spaces--text messaging, instant messenger, Nintendo with its Pictochat; 1-1 communications generally speaking; in classroom might be stools that swivel to encourage 1-1 check-in/"secret" exchanges

From Entrepreneur.com: some fun and useful exercises to get in touch with what you are passionate about. All of them are active - none are text oriented.

"Updated February 2013 Adopted by the NCTE Executive Committee, February 15, 2008  Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the 21st century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies. These literacies are multiple, dynamic, and malleable. As in the past, they are inextricably linked with particular histories, life possibilities, and social trajectories of individuals and groups. Active, successful participants in this 21st century global society must be able to Develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology; Build intentional cross-cultural connections and relationships with others so to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen independent thought; Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes; Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information; Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts; Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments."

"NAAL defines literacy as both task-based and skills-based. The task-based definition of literacy, used in both the 1992 and 2003 assessments, focuses on the everyday literacy tasks an adult can and cannot perform. The 2003 NAAL adds a complementary skills-based definition of literacy that focuses on the knowledge and skills an adult must possess in order to perform these tasks. These skills range from basic, word-level skills (such as recognizing words) to higher level skills (such as drawing appropriate inferences from continuous text). New information provided by the 2003 NAAL is intended to improve understanding of the skill differences between adults who are able to perform relatively challenging literacy tasks and those who are not."

Nice explication of five things successful learners do by Kevin Daum, Inc. 1. Imagine the outcome (have purpose!) 2. Think of text as a starting point (create additional opportunities for experiental learning--talk it through with others, watch it being done, do it) 3. Learn in your language(visual, auditory, tactile) 4. Make failure fun (test and push the boundaries) 5. Make accountability exhilarating (impact of tests, display your new skills or knowledge)

Catherine Davis outlines 5 simple things to do when designing e-learning for adults with low level literacy skills or for non English speaking adult (ESL) populations. Basically it is: simple interface without bells and whistles; simple short sentences; lots of visuals (infographs) and photos; on-screen text and visuals that support audio - audio is the driver of the pages; provide supplemental full audio transcript

Good to incorporate this into the proposal and brings up the need to investigate using audio and video as much as possible

Manta's tips on having copy that people can and want to read. Pay attention to white space, be useful yet create a sense of urgency, use graphics and pictures, etc. Nothing we don't know but a great reminder to do, and a call to have less text but say more with what you do have.

Excellent blog post by Mindy Jackson on why less is needed more than ever before in terms of content, July 7, 2014. She explains why practice is more important than content. She writes in a less is more manner, too. Found her via Jane Hart's blog. excerpt: Just-in-time knowledge resources combined with a self-service model is the answer to course content glut. Text is a resource. Practice is instruction. Focus online learning programs on practice rather than knowledge acquisition. Create a risk-free tryout environment, contextualized to performance needs. Enable learners to sip from the fountains of knowledge, rather than to drown by a fire-hose of information. Knowledge is readily accessed. But experience is earned.

Project Muse in 2005: article by Fred Turner, assistant professor at Stanford who credited Howard Rheingold with the term "virtual community" from the title of Rheingold's book The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, 1993, that explained his 8-year participation in a bulletin board system known as the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, a text only environment.

an interesting services page that relies heavily on text but nice (to me) examples and length of explanations. PebbleRoad

From the NYT March 19, 2016 Behaviors of millennials in the workplace: social sharing of everything is the norm, they have to be inspired to work, they text people sitting next to them rather than talk directly, and have no boundaries between work and personal life.

Preoccupations by Jonah Stillman on millennials using smartphones to take notes during corporate meetings and how a senior staff person first chastised him (privately) but after being informed that he was using the phone to take notes, the senior staff/mentor encouraged participants to ask for notes from earlier presentations from the young man.

Patricia Hatley assesses how digital speed and communications affect leadership style and workers' expectations, January 11, 2016.

blog post by Gayle Gifford in April 2015 on six criteria for board members including 6. learners 5. institutional memory keepers 4. accountable 3. spanning/connecting 2. strategic thinking 1. mission and values lens