What to do during the holidays to understand the New Knowledge Order

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Between Web 2.0 (including Blogs), Computer Games and Simulations, Digital Cameras, Podcasts, Widgets and other Ubiquitous/Ambient Information, and Cell Phones (just to name a few), it is hard to argue that we are all not in the midst of a New Knowledge Order. The u... More »

How would you want your pilot, your doctor, and your lawyer to learn?

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You and your family are boarding an airplane, and are about to fly across country. How would you want that pilot to have learned how to fly? P.S. It is stormy. Your daughter is going in for an operation. How would you want that doctor to have learned how to operate?... More »

Federation of American Scientists Bland Report on Harnessing the power of video games for learning

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The Federation of American Scientists wrote a paper on Harnessing the power of video games for learning. It is available here: http://fas.org/gamesummit/ Predictably, it is filled with stirring quotes of intellectual criticisms of the current system, detailed modeli... More »

Imagine a course that "just" got students to get the quiet people talking

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Imagine a course that "just" got employees to get the quiet people talking at the right time. (And I mean really applying the skill on a near daily business. Imagine that an employee is increasingly uncomfortable in a conversation until everyone has chimed in.) I wo... More »

Past Experiences. Present Challenges. Future Predictions.

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It's the beginning of another month! Time for another The Big Question. November's Question got passions raging and great conversation with real substance whose embers are still glowing as more comments still are flowing in. While we had fewer partic... More »