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Title: LEARNING TO LEARN


1
LEARNING TO LEARN
  • Prior Knowledge
  • Intellectual Capital
  • Managing Intellectual Assets
  • Morality of Teaching

2
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE(Article by Svinicki)
  • Word Association - Cardinal
  • Jargon - no prior experience with words
  • Student goal - incorporate new information into
    existing memory

3
INTELLECTUAL 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.

4
MANAGING 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 ........

5
LEARNING 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).

6
LEARNING 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.

7
LEARNING 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?

8
THINKING
Thinking
  • CRITICAL THINKING
  • THE DEATH OF MANAGEMENT
  • CHALLENGE DESTRUCTIVE THINKING

9
CHALLENGE 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

10
CRITICAL 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

11
CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
  • Critical Thinking Model
  • Recognize / Desire problem
  • Gather information
  • Form tentative conclusions
  • Test conclusions
  • Evaluate and make decisions

12
THE 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?

13
CRITICAL 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?

14
CRITICAL 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

15
Creativity
16
CREATIVITYAcme 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.

17
CREATIVITYAcme 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!

18
CREATIVITYAcme Widgets
  • Whats wrong here?
  • Who is responsible?

19
CREATIVITY(Article by McCormick)
  • Im convinced that such musings are the key to
    business and social vitality.

20
CREATIVITY(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.

21
The Frame of Mind to Be Creative
  • Imagine new products
  • Imagine new methods
  • Develop new ways of doing things
  • Build unusual alliances

22
The 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
23
The 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

24
The 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

25
Machines 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

26
Copycats (article by Gomes)
  • Start-up imitation winnowing
  • Is the Internet different?
  • Network effect a few large players dominate
  • Small stores cater to neighborhoods

27
Copycats (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

28
Copycats (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

29
Building 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.

30
Building 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.

31
B-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

32
The 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

33
The 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

34
The Dumbing Down of Higher Education
  • Timeless fundamentals
  • High academic achievement
  • Faculty dedicated to teaching
  • Resistance to silly courses

35
Making 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

36
WHY 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.

37
KEY 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?

38
SPECIALIZATION ???
  • 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.

39
Problem-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

40
ACTIVE 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)

41
ACTIVE LEARNING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
  • Active Learning Strategies
  • Study groups
  • Journals and diaries
  • Experiential learning
  • Student research

42
THE 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.

43
THE 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

44
Jobs 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.

45
A 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.

46
A Short Course in Human Relations
  • The two most important wordsTHANK YOU.
  • The one most important wordWE
  • The least important wordI

47
Why 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

48
Generation 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

49
contd 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

50
Generation 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

51
Generation Y(Newborne)
  • Cynical
  • Purchase Involvement
  • Debt
  • Pragmatic
  • Balance

52
The Work Ethic Redefined(Postrel)
  • We live in a Knowledge Economy
  • Jobs Have
  • Educational Requirements
  • Specific Skills
  • Employee Discretion
  • Response to the Unpredictable

53
The Work Ethic Redefined(Postrel)
  • The Quintessential Employee
  • Decision Maker
  • Use of Good Judgement
  • Intelligence
  • Charm
  • Independent Thinking
  • Self-Expression

54
The 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.

55
WHY 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.

56
WHY 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
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