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Project & Knowledge Management – Grown Up Digital February 10, 2009

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To start the course IS481 Project and Knowledge Management, the book Grown Up Digital by Don Taspcott was discussed. This book looks at how the Net Generation has grown up in a digital world with the Internet, video games and cell phones.  It discusses their approach to the workplace and to the world of education. During the discussion on education the video of A Vision of Students Today was presented.  This YouTube video is critical of the way students are educated today.  The video suggests that maybe changes are needed to the education process.  Do the same techniques that have been used for the past hundred years still work? Students have grown up with Google, Wikipedia, virtual reality and blogs. They are using them in our classes. Is there a way we can use them in the education process? 

 This may sound like an unusual way to begin an Information Systems course, but this is a KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT course. The education process is one way that we provide knowledge to our students. Another way that knowledge is acquired is through the computer environment and information systems. We need to look at the Internet as a knowledge providing network and how can we use it more effectively to increase knowledge. Our students as members of the Net Generation have already discovered that there is knowledge available on the Internet. Maybe we as faculty should learn how to use the Internet to acquire knowledge and maybe our students should be our teachers.

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