Nuggets from Information Anxiety 2
Key points from Information Anxiety 2 by Richard Saul Wurman:
"The great Information Age is really an explosion of non-information: it is an explosion of data." His definition of information is: "Information is that which leads to understanding."
On employee training and education: "Any program should involve employees in their own training. They should be allowed to tailor their own programs, to learn at their own rate."
Ideas and facts: "It is ideas that precede our understanding of facts, although the overabundance of facts tends to obscure this."
Ignorance: "When you can admit to ignorance... you will realize it is the ideal state from which to learn."
"The great Information Age is really an explosion of non-information: it is an explosion of data." His definition of information is: "Information is that which leads to understanding."
On employee training and education: "Any program should involve employees in their own training. They should be allowed to tailor their own programs, to learn at their own rate."
Ideas and facts: "It is ideas that precede our understanding of facts, although the overabundance of facts tends to obscure this."
Ignorance: "When you can admit to ignorance... you will realize it is the ideal state from which to learn."
posted by Aliooplv @ 7:26 PM
1 Comments:
At December 17, 2004 at 11:11 PM,
Amy Berger said…
RE: Wurman's comment on employee training and education--I work at SDSU, a major international university, and as an institution I'm afraid we do a TERRIBLE job of training our faculty and staff. Even the scheduled trainings are largely very dull, and do not often demonstrate constructivist techniques. We just got Dr. Brock Allen as head of the SDSU Center for Teaching and Learning, so things may improve soon. One of the topics in which I'm interested is faculty/staff trainings, although I don't have much opportunity to do them. Does anyone else have any suggestions about organizations to join/books to read/sites to visit/etc. that deal with training? (So far, I've gotten the ASTD site from Linda X: http://www.astd.org.)
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