First, I want to thank everyone for this interest in this CIO.com article: 10 Lessons from Angry Birds That Can Make You a Better CIO. Truly amazing to watch it spread through the Web. So I thought I should cap the week with lesson number 11 11 Don't be complacent When you join the Apple Game Center you can see how you stack up against others. Not always so easy for a … [Read more...] about One More Angry Birds Lesson for CIOs- Number 11
Education: Uncertainty isn’t the Only Risk at Fast Company
Yesterday I gave a talk at the Snoqualmie Valley School District Foundation fundraising luncheon. My role was to help them envision the future of education. Some of the comments I made yesterday will be relevant to the scenarios we build on this blog. As an avid anti-futurist, I said I didn’t know what education would look like, but that I was tracking how many of … [Read more...] about Education: Uncertainty isn’t the Only Risk at Fast Company
How Twitter Could have Planned for Success
Twitter's Biz Stone bemoans the company's lack of foresight during a Tavis Smiley interview today (Twitter Co-founder: "I wish we could have predicted it.") In anticipation of this topic, I wrote: Why Start-Ups Need More Strategic Planning, and Why Investors Should Help Provide It back in December, and I think is worth a re-read today. Briefly, entrepreneurs need … [Read more...] about How Twitter Could have Planned for Success
More early survey results->Formal vs. Informal Learning
Interesting that 62.6% of respondents use social for informal learning, but only 26.4% use it to support formal learning. This gets to one of my key issues: we need to formalize the relationship between traditional institutions and emerging learning opportunities and the technology that supports them. Educators need to keep up with the latest technology so they can use the … [Read more...] about More early survey results->Formal vs. Informal Learning
Collaboration Strategy
Every collaboration opportunity should raise a number question for the person(s) involved: Who should I be working with? What exactly do I need to collaborate on when it comes to this assignment? How do I prioritize what is important—a clean inbox or a quick response to a social media query ? Should I use the information that's readily at hand, or keep searching?. … [Read more...] about Collaboration Strategy