What’s the Difference Between “Using Technology” and “Technology Integration”?

Knowmads in Society 3.0 Remember nomads? In the pre-industrial age, nomads were people that moved with their livelihood (usually animal herding) instead of settling at a single location. Industrialization forced the settlement of many nomadic peoples… …but, something new is emerging in the 21st century: Knowmads. A knowmad is what I term a nomadic knowledge worker –that is, a creative, imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere. The coffee shop has become the workplace of choice for many knowmads. The remixing of places and social relationships is also impacting education. Who are these knowmads in Society 3.0? (To find out, click on the picture) Are you a knowmad?

Building soft skills: Why the business community wants to invest in preschoolers A group of about 20 Christopher House preschoolers are sitting as quietly as they can in front of their teacher, Jill Peterson. She’s just asked them to put their fingers on their nose and is waiting for the group to settle down before dismissing them to play time. She reminds them what their options are today: at the art table, there’s clay. But this isn’t just ordinary play. Allen Rosales is the school’s curriculum director. “What’s math knowledge if you can’t speak up, if you can’t have a perspective, if you can’t work as a group collaboratively?” Still, as Rosales points out, those “soft” skills aren’t so soft because they’re difficult to develop. Hard skills are pretty self-explanatory: math, science and reading. Chicago businessman J.B. “Collectively, these are things we sometimes refer to as character,” said Pritzker, co-leader of The Pritkzer Group. That’s backed up by people like Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman at the University of Chicago.