Knowledge Creation Technologies help Transform the Way Young People Learn and Work
John Findlay.
If the citizens of the future are to survive a rapidly transforming world in which the critical success factor will be the ability to rapidly create and apply new knowledge wisely then a major cultural overhaul of our educational and organisational learning systems is now overdue or they will become irrelevant.
This paper presents case studies that describe successful and unsuccessful implementations of a collaborative technology designed to support rapid knowledge creation and application in Australian schools and business during the 1990s.
Activity Theory is used to explain how a generation of teachers and managers educated in the Industrial Age and Information Age are being bypassed by young people and employees who arrive at school or the workplace Knowledge Age ready and are able to easily adopt the new KCT tools that incorporate the thinking and decision skills of experts.
This paper presents case studies that describe successful and unsuccessful implementations of a collaborative technology designed to support rapid knowledge creation and application in Australian schools and business during the 1990s.
Activity Theory is used to explain how a generation of teachers and managers educated in the Industrial Age and Information Age are being bypassed by young people and employees who arrive at school or the workplace Knowledge Age ready and are able to easily adopt the new KCT tools that incorporate the thinking and decision skills of experts.
Presenters
John Findlay
(Australia)
CEO
Zing Technologies Pty. Ltd.
Wollongong University
Zing Technologies Pty. Ltd.
Wollongong University
John Findlay is the CEO of Zing Technologies, developers of team learning and meeting systems, and a director of Knowledge Creation Press, publishers of expert on-line learning and decision processes.
Keywords
- Knowledge Creation Tools
- Activity Theory
- Organisation Transformation
(Virtual Presentation,
English)