Better Catch Up!

If you have not listened to/read Thomas Friedman's book "The World is Flat", better hurry! The next "great" book you need is "Wikinomics" by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. Wow! I find it very empowering to listen to these books as a change agent in Education....well, in any economic role!

Tom Peters talks about "disruptive technologies" in his book "Re-imagine: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age:... we are certainly understanding this concept, eh?

The tools of Web 2.0 were described in "Wikinomics" as "the weapons of mass collaboration". "Peer production" is certainly a disruptive phenomenon.

It seems clear to me that we DO? | WILL live in "a world where only the connected will survive". How many of us today feel "a power shift is underway" and understand the paradigm that "a tough new business rule is emerging"?

Our students NEED to learn new skills to live freely and successfully compete in a "Brave New World". Tapscott and Williams are telling us to "harness the new collaboration or perish".

What do you think?