From learning
communities to
learning networks
Utilizing social media/
Twitter Chats to move
learning from the local to
the global level
Most of us would agree that the
bells of change have always been ringing
throughout time. However, if you listen
closely, you will notice that today’s bells
seem to be clanging much louder and faster.
Or as Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singu-
larity Is Near shares, “The future will be far
more surprising than most realize: as we
haven’t yet internalized the fact that the rate
of change is accelerating.”
While we may not have completely inter-
nalized how the speed and pace of change
has increased and accelerated in recent
times, we are seeing how it is having great
affect and effect on individuals, leaders,
teams and organizations. As the military
adds, our environments have become much
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more Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and
Ambiguous. For this reason, individuals
and organizations are having to become
much more agile and adaptive, not only in
response to the new turbulence of change,
but to the shift from “technical” problems to
more “adaptive” challenges.
As leaders, we are becoming very aware
of these shifts and how they are affecting
our individuals and organizations, from
education to business, from the classroom
to the boardroom. More and more we hear
the clamor for “21st Century Skills” to
better prepare our students, educators and
stakeholders for a very non-obvious future.
By David Culberhouse