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From the lens Skills for networked collaboration.

  • dickwillis May 9, 2008 @ 5:50 am | delete
    I'm not sure I agree. Most of the people with whom I work are already involved in working in distributed teams - some using bespoke collaborative software, some using 'public' web2 stuff, some using basic tools like email. Also lots of corporations are already adopting web2 tools for working and knowledge exchange purposes.

    I think the problem lies in the middle. There's a business pull, there's a user push (students using web2 stuff at home) but there is precious little sign of any attempt in education to utilise these technologies and help kids work with them effectively, rather than just haphazardly playing about.
  • Lee May 1, 2008 @ 7:35 am | delete
    Interesting stuff, but are school-age children going to learn about collaboration tools etc. through (successors to) MySpace et al.? That said I'm ready to agree that learning about this sort of thing in a structured way is better than picking it up as you go.

    So I suspect the problem here is going to be that schoolchildren / teenagers are going to get used to using these kinds of more-or-less advanced ICT tools more quickly than they get adopted in the workplace (firewalls / security / protection of business IP etc.), so that when these clever young things enter the workforce they're going to be annoyed / frustrated that their workplace won't allow them to draw on the knowledge and help of their peers. Or at least those employers that do allow it will get better-quality people staying with them.

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Dick Willis runs a consultancy company, CNR Ltd, working mainly in the UK public sector. He is also a cave explorer.

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