Comments on: Knowledge and Information: Children in the classroom http://www.cognitivepotential.com/2009/02/knowledge-and-information-children-in-the-classroom/ Taking time to consume, create, share. Sat, 23 May 2009 00:27:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Peter Zakrzewski http://www.cognitivepotential.com/2009/02/knowledge-and-information-children-in-the-classroom/comment-page-1/#comment-162 Peter Zakrzewski Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:49:16 +0000 http://www.cognitivepotential.com/?p=192#comment-162 Excellent observations Dale. I was thinking about my more recent experiences in working with elementary school children in the past ten years. So that question becomes, are our teachers failing our children by instilling these values of creativity and sharing and setting the kids up for failure and a huge shock when they enter the modern "knowledge workplace"? Or are modern "knowledge workplaces" not taking into consideration what types of individuals will be infiltrating their walls? Excellent observations Dale. I was thinking about my more recent experiences in working with elementary school children in the past ten years.

So that question becomes, are our teachers failing our children by instilling these values of creativity and sharing and setting the kids up for failure and a huge shock when they enter the modern “knowledge workplace”?

Or are modern “knowledge workplaces” not taking into consideration what types of individuals will be infiltrating their walls?

]]> By: Dale Arseneault http://www.cognitivepotential.com/2009/02/knowledge-and-information-children-in-the-classroom/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Dale Arseneault Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:31:26 +0000 http://www.cognitivepotential.com/?p=192#comment-154 Interesting comparison, and I think quite apt, but perhaps we had different classroom experiences. What I seem to recall, with a few notable exceptions, excessively restrictive processes that served the educational system more than the students, innovative and creative thinking supressed in favour of accurate restatement of facts/figures, and the forcefitting of diversity into a "norm." I think that many work environments that claim to be "knowldge workplaces" have a lot in common with the description above. Thankfully, that seems to be changing in more and more organizations. I think the "future" knowledge workplace will be a very different one than what we have today. Interesting comparison, and I think quite apt, but perhaps we had different classroom experiences. What I seem to recall, with a few notable exceptions, excessively restrictive processes that served the educational system more than the students, innovative and creative thinking supressed in favour of accurate restatement of facts/figures, and the forcefitting of diversity into a “norm.” I think that many work environments that claim to be “knowldge workplaces” have a lot in common with the description above. Thankfully, that seems to be changing in more and more organizations. I think the “future” knowledge workplace will be a very different one than what we have today.

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