DIY not ISD

I've been beating this drum for many months now. DIY is killing ISD. Conversations around the irrellevance of ISD with Karl Kapp basically bring us full circle to this post by Harold Jarche. Thanks Harold! Its a realization that many are unwilling to accept.

"If you’re in the learning business, don’t try to build another LMS or portal. Instead, figure out ways that enable DIY. Believe it or not, learners can, and will, do the rest. They already are."

Thanks Tony for linking up to it.

Harold's post points to Donald Clark kicking off this conversation. A comment on this wonderful topic had this to say in response to Donald "not getting Starbucks"...

"Starbucks - the classroom of elearning 2.0?"

Well said Dan.

A quick search of my blog finds the following posts:

DIY eLearning Video
DIY inhouse Photo Studio
DIY Visual Thinking School
Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media
MAKE Instructable eLearning

And there's more, but you get the idea...

I can over-simplify the issue significantly and state the following: ISD is only necessary when you are mandating learning to unwilling participants...for everthing else we do indeed learn it ourselves.

Paper-based Learning - DIY Job Aids

No matter how much we push technology-based learning, we will never become completely paper-less. I have a Mac, a PC, a Treo, and a Blackberry, but without pen and paper near by I'm lost. (I hoping the iPhone helps a little ;-)
We (the learning community) are all about improving performance and the guys at 43folders are all about improving productivity...splitting hairs I suppose. They get it!
I LOVE the PocketMod! And so when I was listening to MacBreak Weekly (episode25) today they mentioned the new drag'n'drop tool from Big Nerd Ranch called pagepacker that makes the Pocketmod even BETTER and more fun to create.
If you are a Windows user then you are still stuck with the PocketMod (win), but that alone still rocks!

Check out all of the great info on the PagePacker from THIS POST.

The greatest part about this little tool is it's ability to take any photo, pdf, or file and resize it to fit the pages. What a great instant jobaid creator! Take some photos, drag them in. They're small and disposible too.