Communication

Reformers and adapters

February 2, 2011

I’ve just finished reading two fascinating articles by Thomas L. Friedman and Marc Prensky . There seems to be two camps when it comes to education – the reformers and the innovators who are adapters. Like the US, we spend millions of dollars trying to fix the system with programatic solutions that reflect a 20th … More Reformers and adapters

Banning connectivity

June 10, 2010

An interesting article in the weekend paper posing the perennial question: do social networking sites cost productivity at work? (N.B I recall the same question being posed a decade ago when MSN Messenger was popular). Kath Lockett writing in MyCareer (5-6 June 2010) cites a survey of the top 500 US Business in which 60% said … More Banning connectivity