I have talked to many K-12 educators, as well as college professors. Some are adventurous technophiles, and others are resistant, reluctant or not technology capable of embracing new technology as moves into common use. I think we need to encourage faculty to embrace technology as it arrives, and provide them the tools and support to make them successful, even if a fad is short … [Read more...] about Why Faculty Should Employ Technology Du Jour
Knowledge Management
Curation Not The Future of The Net, Unless You pay
I was just referred to Tom Foremski’s Silicon Valley Watcher post on Curation and the Human Web… which argues that curating the content of the web will be a big topic in 2011. I don’t think so, at least not as it is characterized in the post. Curation is like knowledge management. If there is no business model, there is no incentive for people to curate content. Small start-ups … [Read more...] about Curation Not The Future of The Net, Unless You pay
Encouraging Communities of Practice
I was just reading a report out from Deloitte’s Stan Garfield on Communities of Practice (original post from the Darwin Discovery Engine Blog no longer available. Find KM-related posts form Stan at Medium). Here are some thoughts on Stan’s 10 Principals. My comments are in grey. One - Communities should be independent of organizational structure. They should be based on the … [Read more...] about Encouraging Communities of Practice