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Paul Fairbrother

Hoover Institution - Education Next - How Do We Transform Our Schools? - 0 views

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shared by Paul Fairbrother on 13 May 08 - Cached
  • Computers offer a way to customize instruction and allow students to learn in the way they are best wired to process information, in the style that conforms to them, and at a pace that matches their own.
  • We call innovations that sustain the leading companies’ trajectory in an industry sustaining innovations.
  • disruptive innovation extends its benefits to people who, for one reason or another, are unable to consume the original product, so-called non-consumers. Disruptive innovations tend to be simpler and more affordable than existing products. This allows them to take root in simple, undemanding applications within a new market or arena of competition.
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  • Little by little, the disruption predictably improves. New companies introduce products that for them are sustaining innovations along their trajectory. And at some point, disruptive innovations become good enough to handle more complicated problems and take over,
  • At first glance there appears to be little non-consumption of education in the United States since students are required to receive schooling. Looking deeper, however, reveals many pockets of non-consumption where students would be delighted with computer-based learning rather than the alternative, nothing at all.
  • data suggest that in about six years 10 percent of all courses will be computer-based, and by 2019 about 50 percent of courses will be delivered online
  • Disruption tends to be a two-stage process. Those who initially create the integrated alternative can sell the new products through the existing commercial system. As the technology matures, less expensive solutions emerge. At this point in the disruption, the commercial system typically changes. Disruption of the commercial system enables less expensive solutions to reach new markets and take root.
  • Pitting computer-based learning directly against teachers or continuing to cram it into schools will not work. Producers of computer-based learning software must introduce it disruptively, by letting it compete against non-consumption initially. And software makers must customize the software for different learning types while other entrepreneurs find new channels to reach students. If all this happens, those who have extolled the benefits of computer-based learning might finally be able to see its promise materialize.
  • Paul Fairbrother on 13 May 08
     
    Projected impact of computer-based/online learning on schools
Vicki Davis

From the Annointed Few to the Collective Many - 0 views

www.learningcircuits.org/0408_wilkins.html

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shared by Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08 - Cached
  • What has not changed significantly, however, is the nature of human interactions in business – email, conference calls, and presentations by experts to non-experts are still the dominant means of interaction
  • the Internet has morphed from a presentation medium to an interactive platform in just a few years
  • a leading web analysis site
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  • more than 50 percent of Americans aged 20-30 years old use Facebook
  • among Americans under the age of 35, social networking and user-generated content sites have overtaken TV as a primary media.
  • orkplace communities are designed to solve workplace-related challenges
  • We’re in the midst of a paradigm shift where individuals are indeed connecting “in ways and at levels that [they] haven’t done before”
  • Workplace communities
  • “Visitors to MySpace.com and Friendster.com generally skew older, with people age 25 and older comprising 68 and 71 percent of their user bases, respectively.”
  • talent management is about finding, developing, and retaining key talent within the organization
  • Ernst & Young, for instance, has a significant presence on Facebook in support of its recruiting efforts
  • Google, Home Depot, Enterprise Rent a Car, and Deloitte also are recruiting using Web 2.0 tools through YouTube videos and even alumni social networks
  • “If companies keep social networks out, they will be doing a significant disservice to their bottom lines
  • Between 2000 and 2020, 75 million Boomers will reach retirement age.
  • The only content service with mass adoption (greater than 50 percent) was Social Networking, and this was only among respondents under the age of 35.”
  • In addition, Millennials are the first generation to spend more hours online per week than watching TV (16.7 vs 13.6).
  • some of the characteristics of Millenials, which included a desire to work in  “[open] and flat organizations” as “part of a tribe.”
  • “heavy use of technology (messaging, collaboration, online learning) as a daily part of their work lives.”
  • robust and active communities will have an easier time recruiting talented Millennials
  • they have opportunities to meaningfully connect to their peers and supervisors.
  • A retiring Boomer who is an expert in a particular field could be an excellent community manager, blogger, or wiki contributor.
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
     
    Business people and management should read this article about the transformation of business by using workplace communities. "Workplace communities are designed to solve workplace-related challenges" -- they focus on tasks. I would find it interesting to see a business REALLY use technology to change things. Having the business in a business network (OK a NING) and let people tag their posts with the business related PROBLEMS they are having and blog, video, or photograph it-- the tag cloud would tell the business IMMEDIATELY what the problems are in the company. The problem with this model is that there are few corporate executives who REALLY want to know the problems within their organizations. They don't want to be problem solvers, just opportunity creators. However, when managers open their eyes (and I'm a former General Manager myself) and see that two things give business opportunity: problem solving and innovation. And they are directly related. True innovation solves problems. Read this article and think about how you may solve problems using the networks you may now create. If you don't want everyone to know, keep it private and only allow people in your company in.
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
     
    Important article about why businesses need to change.
Vicki Davis

Connecting People Via The Network - Horizon Project 2008 - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 14 May 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 14 May 08
     
    A very nice video done by a student about connecting people via the network.
  • Vicki Davis on 14 May 08
     
    I enjoyed this video a lot from Ren at Goodland High School. I particularly liked the contrast of the computers at the beginning of the video. I think he did a nice job.
glen gatin

Around the Corner - MGuhlin.net : Is IT becoming Extinct - 0 views

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shared by glen gatin on 03 May 08 - Cached
  • glen gatin on 03 May 08
     
    Tried to leave a comment but it said I had unspecified parameters. Maybe I was just to long-winded. Anyway I wrote up my comment as a blog entry at http://ict07598.wordpress.com/in-house-dc-electrical-generating-plants/
glen gatin

Connected futures: New social strategies and tools for communities of practice - 0 views

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shared by glen gatin on 03 May 08 - Cached
  • glen gatin on 03 May 08
     
    High priced conference some good links on the page one being Is IT Becoming Extinct? Miguel Guhlin
glen gatin

Government Investment Enhances Manitoba's Virtual Reality Technology Services - 0 views

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shared by glen gatin on 22 Apr 08 - Cached
  • glen gatin on 22 Apr 08
     
    How about that!
glen gatin

The Future of the Internet-And How to Stop It - 0 views

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shared by glen gatin on 17 Apr 08 - Cached
  • glen gatin on 17 Apr 08
     
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