Title: LEARNING TO LEARN
1LEARNING TO LEARN
- Prior Knowledge
- Intellectual Capital
- Managing Intellectual Assets
- Morality of Teaching
2PRIOR KNOWLEDGE(Article by Svinicki)
- Word Association - Cardinal
- Jargon - no prior experience with words
- Student goal - incorporate new information into
existing memory
3INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL(Article by Stewart)
- Intangible assets of skills,
- knowledge, and information.
- How do you operate and evaluate a
- business when knowledge is its
- chief resource and capital?
- Intellectual assets are valuable.
4MANAGING INTELLECTUAL ASSETS(Article by Stewart)
- 1. Define the role of knowledge in a business
- 2. Assess competitors strategies and knowledge
assets. - 3. Classify your portfolio - what do you have?
- 4. Evaluate - what is it worth?
- 5. Identify gaps.
- 6. Assemble knowledge portfolio.
- 7. Repeat Steps 1-6 ........
5LEARNING TO LEARN(Article by Boehrer)
- Is teaching more than the conveying knowledge?
- Can teachers teach anybody anything?
- What is the difference between knowledge and
knowing?
- Recommendations
- Learning is not passive.
- Learn what the problems are.
- Recognize that learning is your problem
(opportunity).
6LEARNING TO LEARN
- How can you calculate the return on your
education investment? - What will you be doing five years after you
graduate from Baylor? - RECOMMENDATIONS
- Learn to learn and learn to like it.
- Study whatever subject you like, but recognize
that you can broaden your skill base considerable
by choosing elective courses wisely. - Develop life skills that will enable you to
provide value to a variety of organizations.
7LEARNING TO LEARN(Article by Smith)
- Recommendations
- Learn to ask questions. If you have a question,
you can be certain that many others have the same
question. - True competence does not mean mistake free. It
means well thought out judgment and decisions
based on available information and experience.
- Is it okay to make mistakes?
- Is competence really being able to solve problems
w/o hesitation? - What reactions do you expect if you tell a
professor (a friend) that you do not understand
something?
8THINKING
Thinking
- CRITICAL THINKING
- THE DEATH OF MANAGEMENT
- CHALLENGE DESTRUCTIVE THINKING
9CHALLENGE DESTRUCTIVE THINKING(Forms of
Dysfunctional Thinking)
- All or nothing thinking
- Over-generalization
- Mental Filter
- Disqualifying the positive
- Jumping to conclusions
- Magnifying and minimizing
- Emotional Reasoning
- Should Statements
- Labeling and Mislabeling
- Personalization
10CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
- Critical Thinking
- Identification of principles and rules which can
be generalized - Existence of a framework for analyzing and making
global sense of incoming information - School Teachers
- passiveness
- success comes from conformity, not innovativeness
- inability to see abstractions
- intellectually limited attitudes
11CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
- Critical Thinking Model
- Recognize / Desire problem
- Gather information
- Form tentative conclusions
- Test conclusions
- Evaluate and make decisions
12THE DEATH OF MANAGEMENTThe idea that a good
executive could think through any problem is an
absurdity.
- Assumptions
- A good manager should be able to manage any
enterprise, anywhere and anytime. - The best management is based on true science,
resting upon clearly defined laws. - All problems can be solved by quantitative
analysis. - Questions
- Should business schools focus on general
management? - Can business schools take inexperienced people
and educate them as managers?
13CRITICAL THINKING(Article by Kurfiss)
- Questions
- Must acquisition of knowledge precede critical
thinking? - Are students capable of thinking before they
know a lot? - Why are questions from students rarely heard in
the classroom?
14CRITICAL THINKING(Article by Kurfiss)
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- Learn to ask questions.
- Seek classes or sections of classes that have
.... - writing assignments
- presentation requirements
- case analyses
- group work
- open discussion opportunities
- instructors who encourage questions
15Creativity
16CREATIVITYAcme Widgets
- SCENARIO
- You are the CEO of a 6 billion dollar widget
manufacturing corporation. You are walking
outside and you see a groundskeeper raking
leaves. You notice the rake has only five teeth.
It used to have thirty-one.
17CREATIVITYAcme Widgets
- CONVERSATION
- You ask What are you doing?
- The reply Raking leaves.
- You ask Why are you using that rake? Youre
not picking up many leaves. - The reply Because thats what they gave me to
use. - You ask Why didnt you get a better rake?
- The reply Thats not my job!
18CREATIVITYAcme Widgets
- Whats wrong here?
- Who is responsible?
19CREATIVITY(Article by McCormick)
- Im convinced that such musings are the key to
business and social vitality.
20CREATIVITY(Article by McCormick)
- Creativity comes when we allow our minds to
wander freely. - What impact does technology have on our
creativity? - How hard should organizations strive to make the
work environment conductive to creativity? - RECOMMENDATIONS
- Time spent lost in thought is not wasted.
- Be wary of technology as it cannot think for you.
21The Frame of Mind to Be Creative
- Imagine new products
- Imagine new methods
- Develop new ways of doing things
- Build unusual alliances
22The Frame of Mind to Be Creative
- Everyone is smarter, faster
- Everyone is creative...only if you want to be
Only if you want to be
23The Frame of Mind to Be Creative
- TRAITS OF CREATIVE PEOPLE
- Powers of observation
- Curiosity want to learn
- Ability to identify issues others missed
- Talent for generating large numbers of ideas
- Persistent questioning of the norm
- Ability to see established structure in new ways
- Perseverance through abjection
24The Frame of Mind to Be Creative
-
- Think Big
- Seek out diverse friends
- Build tolerance for bad ideas
- Discipline your creative urges
- Creativity is not a sometimes thing
-
25Machines Smarter Than Us? (article by Port)
- Intelligent computers are inevitable
- Will Silicon life transform civilization?
- Will machines subjugate humans?
- Will machines behave like people?
- Speed/complexity of computers doubles every 18
months - It wont take long to duplicate the brain
26Copycats (article by Gomes)
- Start-up imitation winnowing
- Is the Internet different?
- Network effect a few large players dominate
- Small stores cater to neighborhoods
27Copycats (article by Gomes)
- Why the Internet explosion?
- Low barriers to entry
- register a .com name
- design Web pages
- Much capital available for Internet ventures
- imitation is easy
28Copycats (article by Gomes)
- Marketing the site
- If you are first market it
- If you are second new and improved
- you can learn a lot by watching
29Building Wealth (article by Thurow)
- No one ever becomes rich by saving money
(talents). - Sometimes successful business must cannibalize
themselves to save themselves. - Two routes other than radical technological
change can lead to high growth. - High rate of return opportunities
- sociological/development disequilibriums
- Making capitalism work in a deflationary
environment is much harder than making it work in
an inflationary environment.
30Building Wealth (article by Thurow)
- There are no institutional substitutes for
individual entrepreneurial change agents - Not society that values order above all else will
be creative but without some degree of order,
creativity disappears. - A successful knowledge - based economy requires
large public investments in education,
infrastructure and research and development. - The biggest unknown for the individual in a
knowledge - based economy is how to have a career
in a system where there are no careers.
31B-SCHOOL REPORT CARD
- B-schools were (are?) behind the times.
- No major curriculum changes for 20-25 yrs.
- Tomorrows B-school
- Technology based
- Customer driven
- Cross-functional
- Tomorrows B-school
- Leadership
- Innovation
- Communication
- Entrepreneurship
- Global Management
- Multi-function
- Thinking
32The Dumbing Down of Higher Education
- More and more courses devoid intellectual content
- Dismantling of rigorous requirements
- drop off in natural sciences
- drop off in math
- average length of school year reduced
- Professors trade off research for teaching
33The Dumbing Down of Higher Education
- Perceived vs. real value of courses content
vs. fluff? - Academic fads - do they help you compete?
- The value of teaching/learning methodologies
34The Dumbing Down of Higher Education
- Timeless fundamentals
- High academic achievement
- Faculty dedicated to teaching
- Resistance to silly courses
35Making Your Degree More Valuable
- Make sure youre on the right flight
- get involved in extracurricular activities
- Find time for outside projects
- Build your rolodex
- Choose internships wisely
- Get out of the Box
36WHY BUSINESS MAJORS?
- When you major in X, why do you have to take
courses in Y?(Recognize that employers have
short- and long-term expectations.) - Courses outside your major help you learn to
think and communicate. - Recognize that professionals require a broad
based professional knowledge and an ethical sense
in dealing with others. - Be creative. Make the education you receive at
Baylor pay off for you in many ways.
37KEY QUESTIONS ......
- Why is a broad based education important?
- Where can you get a broad based education?
- What should be the objective of getting a college
education? - When does learning take place while you are
attending college? - Who can you learn from?
- How can you learn?
38SPECIALIZATION ???
- Why should you become a specialist?
- Why do you think total commitment to a job is
questioned? - Can a generalist be competitive?
- Remember that you are a business major. Thinking
like a business major will allow you to become a
specialist and a generalist.
39Problem-Base LearningPreparing Students For The
21st Century(Duch, et.al)
- Problem-Based Learning
- organize ideas
- organize previous knowledge
- define problem
- specify learning issues
- categorize what you know(dont know)
- rank importance of issues
- assign responsibilities/accountabilities
- integrate new knowledge
40ACTIVE LEARNING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
- How students spend their time
- Class ? 15 hours (or less)
- Work ? 21 hours (or more - 30)
- TV ? 7 hours (33)
- Leisure Reading ? 3-10 hours (38)
- Organized student activity ?
- 3-10
hours (47) - Informal conversation with other students 10
hours (31)
41ACTIVE LEARNING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
- Active Learning Strategies
- Study groups
- Journals and diaries
- Experiential learning
- Student research
42THE END OF THE JOB
- The job as we know it is disappearing.
- The job is an artificial entity superimposed on
work needed to be done. - The job creates patches of responsibility.
- Together, but not as a team, work gets
accomplished.
43THE END OF THE JOB
- What Post-Job Organizations do ..
- hire the right people - those who work well
without job descriptions - have a flexible organization
- use project teams
44Jobs Skills Before Credential
- THE EVIDENCE - strong, long-term growth in demand
for people with problem solving skills. - Problem solving skills will occur at all levels
of an organization.
45A Short Course in Human Relations
- The six most important wordsI ADMIT I MADE A
MISTAKE. - The five most important wordsYOU DID A GOOD
JOB. - The four most important wordsWHAT IS YOUR
OPINION? - The three most important wordsIF YOU PLEASE.
46A Short Course in Human Relations
- The two most important wordsTHANK YOU.
- The one most important wordWE
- The least important wordI
47Why Do Customers Leave?
- 1 die
- 3 relocate
- 5 buy from friends
- 9 prefer competition
- 14 judge all similar business based on one bad
encounter - 68 indifference, rudeness, or lack of service
from employees
48Generation Y(Newborne)
Boomers
Generation Y
- Jeep Wrangler
- Skateboard Triple Crown
- Delias
- Dawsons Creek
- Lilith Fair Sponsorship
- Leonardo Dicaprio
- Hard Candy
- The North Face
- Lexus LS400
- Major League Baseball
- GAP
- ER
- Superbowl Ads
- Harrison Ford
- Estee Lauder
- L.L. Bean
49contd Generation Y(Newborne)
Boomers
Generation Y
- Palm Pilot
- Nick at Nite
- Political Activism
- The Beatles
- Coke
- David Letterman
- Nikes
- Motorola Flex Pagers
- WB Network
- Volunteerism
- Spice Girls
- Mountain Dew
- Jenny McCarthy
- Vans
50Generation Y(Newborne)
- How do firms cope with shifts in marketplace
preferences? - Shift in values
- High brand consciousness
- Respond to ads differently
- View adds in different places
51Generation Y(Newborne)
- Cynical
- Purchase Involvement
- Debt
- Pragmatic
- Balance
52The Work Ethic Redefined(Postrel)
- We live in a Knowledge Economy
- Jobs Have
- Educational Requirements
- Specific Skills
- Employee Discretion
- Response to the Unpredictable
53The Work Ethic Redefined(Postrel)
- The Quintessential Employee
- Decision Maker
- Use of Good Judgement
- Intelligence
- Charm
- Independent Thinking
- Self-Expression
54The Work Ethic Redefined(Postrel)
- The Knowledge Economy
- upsets the old career order
- rewards a different sort of person
- redistributes human capital
- discomfits those who view work ethic as only
diligence, stoicism, patience, conformity.
55WHY Life Skills?
- Your education should.....
- Free you from ignorance and prejudice
- Help you learn to think
- Inspire you to seek knowledge...
continuously - Stimulate a life-long curiosity to learn
- Your education should NOT narrow your focus.
56WHY Life Skills?
- Work with others
- Learn from others
- Ask questions
- Be open to other points of view
- Learn to defend your point of view
- Dont automatically accept fact unless you know
it to be true - Challenge assumptions