With reading ATP 6-01.1 it has helped me to understand the meaning of Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management tools that we use every day without realizing that we are. As a society we are spoiled to the amount of digital information that is so readily available to for us to use. The use of computers, tablets, smart phones are tools that we use every day in the military and in the civilian arena. This type of Knowledge Management is known as explicit knowledge; the tool that the Knowledge Management component used is called a digital tool. As a Total Army School System (TASS) battalion representative, I have the responsibility of coordinating with four other states and one territory within the Army school system1. These states consist of: Arizona, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas and the …show more content…
The question that was proposed to him was which KMT was used the most in the correspondences between the RTI in South Carolina and the RTI in Alabama. Without any hesitation his answer was the digital tool. He stated that with all of the course material for WOCS located on the AKO web site that it was a time saving process for him just to go to the web site and obtain the documents that he need to properly conduct the program. CW3 Martin is also a certified WOCS and an OCS instructor at the RTI. The other question that I presented to him was which KMT he used in the classroom. His response was that he had used the digital and the non-digital tools in the classroom. An example of the digital tool being used would be the computer and a television screen or by using a smart board for the information being presented. An examples of the use of a non-digital tool would the use of the dry erase boards and conducting a check on learning after each section that was being presented in the