Eurozine - The structure and silence of the cognitariat - Christopher Newfield

This article really makes you think about our role as a knowledge worker. The university and political bit I couldn't relate to but the first half really puzzles me, talking about pink collars and easily interchangeable knowledge workers. this could in part explain the lack of passion and willingness to take it up for yourself in companies today.

Eurozine - The structure and silence of the cognitariat - Christopher Newfield: "The structure and silence of the cognitariat
Only a small 'creative class' achieves the creativity and freedom attributed by stereotype to all knowledge workers, writes Christopher Newfield. Below this elite exist far more numerous 'perma-temps', who are highly qualified yet interchangeable. In the American university system, which has parallels in Europe, recipients of higher education are increasingly prepared for a working life in a knowledge economy where independence and social protections have been eroded."

Why knowledge games work

Great article to show how much we don't know and how games can help us to learn in those blindspots

this is the little diagram they use for this



Knowledge Games Blog Archive Why knowledge games work

Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time! (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE

Great article on reinventing the University and the way we teach. It also gives an overview of projects that are on their way, like the Wikiversity but it definitely is not the only action going on out there. They define some 5 levels of reinventing:

- course content exchange
- course content collaboration
- course content co-innovation (in which wikiversity is referred to)
- knowledge co-creation
- collaborative learning connection

great, as one of the writers is Don Tapscott, the author of Wikinomics...

Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time! (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE

Seth's Blog: Hunters and Farmers

Great blog post about dual tipology, hunters vs farmers, just check out the teaser with examples:
Seth's Blog: Hunters and Farmers: "Some ways to think about this:

George Clooney (in Up in the Air) and James Bond are both fictional hunters. Give them a desk job and they freak out.
Farmers don't dislike technology. They dislike failure. Technology that works is a boon.
Hunters are in sync with Google, a hunting site, farmers like Facebook.
When you promote a first-rate hunting salesperson to internal sales management, be prepared for failure.
Farmers prefer productive meetings, hunters want to simply try stuff and see what happens."

Seth's Blog: Modern procrastination

Oh yeah, get real and read this blog. It is about false sense of urgency as John Kotter calls it. It is about who wants to take charge of necessary change in organizations. It is about blaming others or seeing and taking your own responsibility....
Seth's Blog: Modern procrastination

The Difference between Managing a Project & Managing a Programme - Clarety Consulting - IT Strategy Made Simple

A very good blog overall, with plenty of good free templates

the article gives a list of focal points for programmes and focal points for projects, and explains the difference in focus between these two

btw both are temporary (meaning they have a beginning and an end), so read on if you want to know the difference

The Difference between Managing a Project & Managing a Programme - Clarety Consulting - IT Strategy Made Simple

What is Action Research?

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

it gives a nice overview of action research and action learning, focussing on the importance of a good problem (often techniques fail because the problem is not the right one to use the technique on, and then people don't use it anymore in the future, based on wrong assumptions) and it also gives some examples of interesting questions for the reflection that is necessary.

What is Action Research?

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