Robert Paterson: EducationWhy is our system in trouble - what are the emergent new pathways for Learning?Blogging and Education - eBay- August 29, 2003 Enrollment for the media courses at our community college is way down this year. Is this part of the dot-com fallout or is something more going on What is on offer is a one year full time class based course that costs $10,000 and teaches you to create web pages. I asked my blogging friends on PEI, none of whom are older than 24 and most younger and all of whom are experts in web based communication, - note I did not say experts in web creation.- to tell me how they learned to be so good. They..http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/education/2003/08/29.html#a752 Blogging - St Paul - The Real Needs of Business- August 29, 2003 New movements tend to stall when the "in group" want to keep the movement within the "in group" The same may be true for blogging. The number of people that know about what a blog is among my clients is very small. Intuitively I would say less than 2%. What would put them off Anything technical. Blogging has to be made really easy. Why do I mention St Paul At the outset of Christianity there was a huge debate. The "In Group" as lead by the surviving disciples of Jesus insisted that to be.http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/education/2003/08/29.html#a750 PEI Fall Election 2003 - The Real Platform and the Real Issues- August 23, 2003 Questions for all those who plan to run for office in the upcoming PEI Election 1. The economy - In the next 4 years (the life of the government) the potato processing side of our economy will collapse and will take down its surrounding infrastructure. As it collapses - US markets will close, there will be a droughtflood more disease etc, it will try even harder to survive and threaten our water and environment even further. Will the new government use up all its resources to "save the jobs" or.http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/education/2003/08/23.html#a740 (Untitled)- August 14, 2003 Missing the Librarians for the Trees. The Myth of Generation N "For decades, social scientists and technologists have alternatively predicted the emergence of 'computer kids' or a 'net generatio'&148;&151;a cohort of children, teenagers, and young adults who have been immersed in digital technology and the digital way of thinking since their conception. This new generation, the thinking went, would be everything that their parents weren&146;t when it came to technology: They would know...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/education/2003/08/14.html#a731 Boys in trouble at school - Trouble for all of us- August 13, 2003 I had coffee with a colleague yesterday who has a 7 year old son.. We were talking about education - specifically about the poor literacy rates on PEI. She works at our Community College we are working to find better ways of remediating this problem. But then we turned personal and I asked her how her son was doing. He is 7. A month into grade 1, she was told that shehe had a problem. Her son was too active. Here is a dialogue from another page but I think it sums up what she...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/education/2003/08/13.html#a729 Universities - Where next- August 10, 2003 We live today in one of those periodic times, when shifts in beliefs and in communication technology drive a fundamental change in how power is defined and exercised. What are these trends and how do they manifest themselves in the lives of universities How can universities, with their unique cultures and management processes, cope and even prosper in this type of environment What is going on What are these trends and what do they mean for managing a University In particular, what do...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/education/2003/08/10.html#a721 What is going on at Universities Growing cultural complexity!- August 10, 2003 I have been talking to a number of universities about what their world feels like today. Here are some of my early views. The bottom line - Universities have become too complex for conventional management processes and conventional HR approaches which have a tendency to seek conformity and are based on both a mechanical mindset and the belief in cause and effect. Many enterprises have complexity such as different divisions, but at a modern university the complexity is overwhelming. What..http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/education/2003/08/10.html#a720 |