When you listen to the news and predictions of millions of people losing their jobs to robots and AI, this is really not new, it has been happening for the last 20 years. Although it will displace some workers, my guess is that many of those workers can be retrained to do things computers and…
Rasmus on GeekWire: How personalized learning can reshape education
How personalized learning can reshape education Buy the textbook. Attend lectures. Take tests. Get graded on a curve. This is the way most people remember their college or university learning experience. Learners, however, are a diverse group, with a wide range of personal histories, different approaches to learning, and varying degrees of technological savvy. Engaging today’s …
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Should BYOD Shape Education in the 21st Century?
I think we must be very cautious about BYOD in education from an access point of view. While employees of companies may well need a device for personal use, and then they bring that device to work, connect it to systems and use their own apps for work-related activities, students don’t need a device. Yes, many children may have a device, but they don’t need one.
Higher Education Strategy: Ten Rules For Creating Good Strategy
Higher education faces disruption from innovations in technology and business models. These disruptions threaten the relevancy of existing institutions and create uncertainty because the emergent models have yet to prove themselves. The only prediction that can be asserted with confidence is that the 21st Century learning experience will be different, and incumbent models will not survive by circling around the status quo.
Strategic Planning Next Steps: strategy does end when planning concludes
Strategic planning next steps: first in a series on strategy in higher education I was brought into a community college district to present on strategic planning. This was not a kick-off meeting where I offered guidance on the process. Quite the opposite. This was a meeting held the quarter following the completion of a strategic …
Scenario Planning: Getting to the Matrix
The creation of the matrix is the most intellectually challenging analysis that takes place during a scenario planning project, and also the intuitive. Because of this dual nature, it is also the most difficult to teach because the process uses and combination of implicit and tacit knowledge. This blog post intends to make the implicit knowledge explicit, while identifying the areas of tacit knowledge, or ‘content-dependent practical knowledge’ (Thornton 2013), in use at the same time.
How to Write a Good Scenario Planning Focal Question
The focal question in scenario planning acts as an anchor and as a fence. It anchors the project so that people are clear about what they are solving for. “The future of learning” will pull in dialog about learning, acting like gravity, placing appropriate ideas, concepts and evidence in orbit, while material not related to the question floats off.
Ten Reasons Every Futures Class Needs to Use Scenarios
Recently, I helped Rob Salkowitz, the instructor of the University of Washington’s Future of Marketing class work with his students to develop scenarios about the future of marketing. Although we employed an abbreviated process, we successfully engaged students and established a framework they will continue to develop over the course of the quarter.
Code Club Field Report
I ran my first Code Club at my local primary school this week. IT WAS AWESOME!!! If you’re not already involved then I strongly recommend you get involved if you can. It’s a very rewarding experience. Here’s a quick summary of what happened: There were 11 kids in total – 7 girls and 4 boys, … »
