As a scenario planner, I have to watch a number of sources for unfolding news around the world, at multiple levels of abstraction. I select things to comment on, others to reference, and some to ignore. Those I ignore I either don't trust or don't agree with, but I don't disagree with them enough to write a rebuttal. In order to analyze events, track the news and create a … [Read more...] about A Brief Look at How I Work and Why it Matters to Today’s Students
Scenario Planning
Connecting to Uncertainty
I was taken to task in today's Internet Evolution blog posting about the future of paid content (Paid Content: Fresh Efforts, More Questions,) and told that all this scenario stuff probably didn't serve me well as analyst. Quite to the contrary. I think the best analysts are those that admit what they don't know and actively wrestle with the range of possible outcomes. Picking … [Read more...] about Connecting to Uncertainty
Why Faculty Should Employ Technology Du Jour
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
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
Management by Design Workshop at KMWorld
I want to thank the people who attended my KMWorld 2010 pre-conference workshop that used the principles of design from my new book, Management by Design, to think about learning environments. The presentation part of the workshop wasn't that good. I have to rethink how to conceptualize the methodology before just jumping into it. The methodology reads much better than it … [Read more...] about Management by Design Workshop at KMWorld
