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Industrial Age Education is DEAD

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Industrial Age education is dead … but not buried … that was the full title of this blog. … and I have nothing to add except watch and listen to Sir Ken Robinsons spot on understanding of the current AND future problems with education around the world. If enough people listened to him then The [.].

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The Internet of Smart Things – humanizing the IOT

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David Grebow, CEO of KnowledgeStar and former co-director of the IBM Institute for Advanced Learning, believes that the Internet of Smart Things (IosT) is the most significant opportunity that has come out of the IoT world, especially for manpower-intensive heavy industries.

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The Internet of Smart Things – humanizing the IOT

KnowledgeStar

David Grebow, CEO of KnowledgeStar and former co-director of the IBM Institute for Advanced Learning, believes that the Internet of Smart Things (IosT) is the most significant opportunity that has come out of the IoT world, especially for manpower-intensive heavy industries.

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The War of the Management Worlds

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On one side we have the management and learning models developed during the Industrial Revolution when most people made things and companies needed to manage hands. There’s a battle going on in the world that most people have never heard about that will soon rock your work world.

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Using the Pivot Point for Real Learning

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We called it “managing minds” to distinguish it from the previous industrial era model of “managing […]. Gill, our focus was on a new model of managing and learning designed to respond to the needs of the new Knowledge Economy.

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Inside the Crystal Ball: Education and the Future

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Children are the future, and their education needs to be part of that future, woven into the web of the digital world, not stuck in the rut of the industrial economy we are leaving behind. This really summed it up for me … “We’re still teaching our kids using a 20th-century paradigm, but many visionaries–like […].

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All About “Learning” Not “Education”

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Education is an unnatural institution, expanding most dramatically during the Industrial Age, that often relies [.]. It uses the relatively new architecture of the brain’s pre-frontal cortex and invokes (among others) imagination, creativity, and critical thinking.

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