Posts Tagged ‘Industrial Era’

The Learning Factory

K-12 classrooms irrelevant to today’s environment. By David Warlick. There is a commonly told story, usually attributed to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Seymour Papert. It states that if a doctor from the 1890s were to suddenly be time-warped into a modern twenty-first century hospital,...
May 14th, 2009 | 01 (2) 2009 / html, Cover stories, FREE articles, Learning | Read More

Unmanaging knowledge

How to tell the boss to back off. You’ve got a pretty good boss, yet he or she still heeds the traditional creed of command and control. But it doesn’t work for you. You’re engaged in knowledge work and you’d like to tell the boss to back off. What do you do? Explain it to the boss first chance...
May 13th, 2009 | 01 (2) 2009 / html, FREE articles, Working | Read More

When the digital gens meet the KMers

By Jerry Ash Smart People magazine. For 175 years we have been taught that people are hired not for what they know, but for what they can do. They’ve been trained, handed job descriptions and told their futures depended on performing to the standards. Without regard for what people have already learned,...
April 12th, 2009 | 01 (1) 2009 / html, FREE articles, K-Factor | Read More