Garry’s Rambles

I have had a long recess of late and this is hopefully my return to regular blogging………

Ewan McIntosh’s recent post about Charles Leadbeater’s ‘Remixing Cities, Remixing Learning’ in which he describes schools as providing learning spaces in three concentric circles. The inner circle describes the role of the school as a physical place for learners to meet with teachers, learn from each other, mix with the community which may include enterprises. The next layer is called the social learning space, where people create networks and use networks for learning. The outer layer is the marketplace where services for education would be easily accessible such as the e-bay for learning.

This builds on my view that in today’s world those people who are networkers and organisations that are networked will have a competitive advantage. We have moved beyond the days of knowledge management which was create a document, put some metadata around, deposit in a database/LAN and never find it again!! In today’s world in which knowledge is far more dynamic its the connections in our networks where the value really lies and so the knowedge networks have come of age.

Ah to be short and sweet..bye for now!!