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The Bamboo Project Blog: 21st Century Workplace Literacy: What Does that Mean and How Do We Engage More People in the Discussion? I find that when it comes to learning and instruction, I tend to run in two different circles, as evidenced by the "Learning" tab in my feed reader. Here, I'm following both bloggers from the world of workplace learning (i.e. corporate and organizational trainers and instructional designers) and edubloggers--people who are working in the k-12 and university systems. I do this in part because I tend to be working with both constituencies, so I need to keep an eye on developments in each area. I also do this because it's interesting to see the cross-over (or lack of cross-over) that occurs. One of the areas that is generates a fair amount of discussion in the edublogosphere is how to define 21st century literacy.

What are the skills that students will need in order to be successful in a constantly changing work world? David Warlick, for example, has some ideas here. I see a few issues and implications with this . . . I don't say this as a criticism as much as an observation. Breaking Out of the Echo Chamber — contentious.com. This morning I listened to an excellent Radio Open Source interview. Host Christopher Lydon was talking to Global Voices Online founder Ethan Zuckerman and GVO managing editor Solana Larsen. I’m a huge fan of GVO and read it regularly — mainly since I enjoy hearing from people in parts of the world I generally don’t hear much about (or from) otherwise.

One of the most interesting parts of the discussion concerned how homophily shapes our individual and collective view of the world. Homophily is a fancy word for the human equivalent of “birds of a feather flock together.” That is, our tendency to associate and bond with people we have stuff in common with — language, culture, race, class, work, interests, life circumstances, etc. Zuckerman made a profound point: Homophily makes you stupid. “You’ll never learn anything if you only talk to people who already think just like you.”

“Newspapers like the New York Times have a terrific mechanism to encourage serendipity. On the other hand: Evolution of Communication: From Email to Twitter and Beyond. We barely have time to pause and reflect these days on how far communications technology has progressed. Without even taking a deep breath, we've transitioned from email to chat to blogs to social networks and more recently to Twitter. Here is my representation of the current ecosystem, which we will explore in this post: In a recent post, Fred Wilson asked what is going to trump email? (implying that even email is getting old). Certainly email is still the most broadly used form of digital communication, particularly in businesses, but is it beginning to be displaced? And more importantly why? To answer these questions, we need to understand the patterns behind all forms of digital communication.

Email vs. It is always useful to start at the beginning and understand the basics. Phone vs. Way before we had the Internet, we already had a way to communicate faster then via mail - the telephone. Extreme multi-tasking; pic by defining moment Newspaper vs. Electrodes vs. Squaring it all out. Userplane | Flash Chat and Video Chat Software - Web Chat Scripts for Enterprise Messaging, Instant Messaging Software.