Creating Significant Learning Environments
Original source: Tech Republic
I find it interesting that only 1/4 of all Windows users are planning to upgrade to Windows 8. Perhaps this is just another confirmation that we are moving into the Post-PC Era (see my post Is the Post-PC Age a Catalyst for the Start of the Digital Information Age?). Is Windows 8 just a sustaining innovation coming from company that has been disrupted by the cloud and mobile devices?
Wall Street veteran Whitney Johnson takes us down the timeline of her career’s rise from office administration to high-finance analytics, and shares with us the disruptive secrets to her success.
The following stacked s-curve diagram from Johnson’s article Throw Your Life a Curve demonstrates the growth cycle of disruptive learning.
I find it interesting that the general use of the Internet has evolved to the place where we have moved passsed the desktop and onto mobile devices which we carry with us everywhere and use all the time for almost everything we do.
All the while academics are still debating the merits of the use of the Internet in the form of online learning, digital texts and the like in higher education.
This makes we wonder who Alvin Toffler is really referring to in the following quote:
