This article could be a page right out of Pink's Drive since it offers suggestions as to how IT companies should involve employees in the strategic planning for the organizations' ultimate business visions. Since 80% of the 100,000 IT workers interviewed for this article responded that they value career development over salary increases, the piece suggests that IT organizations allow employees the opportunity to initiate and create new projects within any future goal setting structure. According to the collected data, these valued contributions would far outweigh any deficits in compensation as IT workers' satisfaction with achievement seems to take precedence over any form of resentment over monetary deficits. Again, Pink's theories about autonomy, mastery and purpose make sense in terms of what people value in their lives and the workplace.

After learning more about the uses of QR codes in the classroom in ebtl2 class and from reading the blog comments about them on the Ning, I looked for an article that explained more about the educational implications. In this article, written over a year ago, the information may be a little outdated, but it helped clarify the big picture for me. I thought sharing it may help others better understand what a great classroom tool it can be.

This article explains how advancements in technology have enhanced the humanities. The digitization of texts combined with statistical analysis software has enabled literary scholars to analyze literature in a whole new way. The unprecedented techniques mix algorithms and written expressions to detect the frequency of word usage, nuances in the structure of sentences, and common thematic elements in and among texts. The digital analysis of literature provides a new type of lens for scholars to examine works to learn more about the cultural contexts in which the pieces were written.

This article describes how a school district enables teachers to teach colleagues the intricacies of certain aspects of technology as part of a professional development plan that calls for "flipped" methodology.