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there is nothing worse than the new kid on the block who comes in with the assumption that he or she can improve the ways things are
It’s actually insulting to the existing employees because you’re implying that they didn’t have the know-how to already come upon that conclusion themselves.
if you’re a new employee, take your time. Check out the land, learn about the history of your new company, and then, if you think you can make a difference, go for it.
"It's your first week on the job and you're tempted to make a positive splash immediately. But unless you want to alienate yourself, take a step back and just observe."
The use of iPads would encourage students to collaborate and teach each other rather than submitting to the traditional transfer of knowledge from professor to student in order to learn
iPads will begin to change the way professors envision and conduct lectures so that the “sage on the stage” approach of a professor dictating knowledge to students will be replaced with a collaborative method of teaching
“With the tablet computing initiative, we want to develop or identify early adopters of this technology, to ‘plant the seeds’ of innovation and, eventually, mainstream this and future technologies into our school and teaching,”
""Technology is central to how we learn and how we communicate," Florence said. "This is an initiative to allow faculty to experiment with how tablet computers can help improve and expand their teaching.""