Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Preparing to Lead Digital Immigrants

The video clip is a window into then next cohort joining the workforce. I've watched it several times. I've had to ask, "Are we prepared for the different minds and motivations emerging?"

I've also had to ask am I satisfied with my kids getting the best 15th century education available.

Maryanne Wolf is a Neuro Scientist and describes how interactive digital communication rewires the brains of this next generation.

They are not linear and sequential. They are bi-lateral multi-modal thinkers. I wrote about this in The Millennium Matrix - although research like this was not mainstream at the time.

What does this mean for education? What does it mean for corporations? What does it mean to this next generation?

You can click on the image of the book to find out more details. But make sure you watch the video clip.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Fascinating insight into the behavior, worldview and stage-in-life of a generation. In many ways this vid clip is the modern equivalent of the Plato/Aristotle relationship - medium being the differentiator. For as much as things change - they stay the same?