Sanity Check: 12 "Power" Skill
Nov 27, 2023
12 Power Skills to Future-proof Organizations ... https://voxy.com/blog/power-skills/
...is a blog post about "power skills", they argue they are those "skills" that are like Super Skills!. Then they list 12 of them. Toward the bottom, just after "time management" is (pause) "time traveling"? as a power skill?
As a now long-term unemployed Instructional Designer (still trying to do a portfolio for a SR ID (so it feels like I need ALL the "A"s and ALL the "D"s and etc). I'm trying to find the latest/greatest and most reliable sources of "where are we at." Should spend more time learning about Prompt Engineering now??
I'm trying to be judicious, but it just seems like more and more long blog posts 'feel' like they were written by chatGPT! Check out that post above. Is it me? Am I just crazy? It just seems like long, rando blog posts (especially from not well known types) that aren't from (1) here, or maybe (2) ATD and (3) Learning Guild/Solutions.
Please tell me I'm just paranoid. Thanks. Alison
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It's hard to tell if that blog post is AI-generated (or maybe AI-translated from another language) or just a big long mostly-empty human-written post. There's a lot of noise out in the world and one has to navigate carefully to recognize and avoid or ignore it.
I'm sorry to hear you've been long-term unemployed. THE power-skill in the ID world--a skill which, if you develop it, will put you in the upper echelon of instructional designers--is the ability to convert mountains of content into ACTIVITIES that give learners the chance to PRACTICE what they are learning. Creating realistic job situations and letting learners practice taking actions and making decisions: that's where powerful learning occurs. Good courses are not about information; they're about what you want people to DO with that information, how you want them to USE it. Put them in situations and have them practice. Give them feedback, coach them throughout, etc. Don't "tell" so much.
Most instructional designers are still crafting "content" (i.e., information), not practice opportunities. Build courses that drive learners to practice in the course the behaviors you want them to use outside the course and you will be among the top IDs in nearly any job application.