The Power of Networks—Video + Links #rhizo14

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As an related aside and footnote to the video, I'm taking—and will be blogging here and elsewhere—about a course (see below) that applies this theory to learning and education. The New Unionism Network has published articles applying it to organizing labor—more rhizomatic connections and without even getting into ubiquitous social media—also not trees or hierarchies but networks.

Chronicle Facebook page

The Chronicle of Higher Education, that Grey Lady of the academic press, has a Facebook page. OK the Chronicle did not put up the page and does not manage it. There is no wall for visitors to post on. You can, however, leave comments on posted links.  Direct Facebook access to Chronicle blogs will speed up sharing on the NFM Facebook page.

The page is bot generated from a Wikipedia entry and fed by syndicated rss feeds of Chronicle articles and references on Facebook. No humans involved (or employed).

Check out the profile picture. Yes, that's the issue with Maria Maisto on the cover. Hope they keep and that the page does not auto-refresh for new images. If so, at least I captured this one.

The Future of Work

this bit of research on the Gartner site; while it dates back to August has some interesting speculation about the Future of Work.
“People will swarm more often and work solo less. They’ll work with others with whom they have few links, and teams will include people outside the control of the organization,”
“In addition, simulation, visualization and unification technologies, working across yottabytes of data per second, will demand an emphasis on new perceptual skills.”
-       Tom Austin, Vice President and Gartner Fellow
Gartner points out that the world of work will probably witness ten major changes in the next ten years. Interesting in that it will change how learning happens in the workplace as well. The eLearning industry will need to account for the coming change and have a strategy in place to deal with the changes.

via upsidelearning.com

So much of this applies as much to teaching and learning possibilities.
"De-routinization" of work (or teaching) could return to autonomy to teachers, already implied in Downes. Work swarms and teaming fit in at PLENK 2010 but seem less likely candidates for the entrenched academic mind.
And on down the list. Just because it could happen doesn't mean it will though.

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