Facilitated Thinking Environments:
The Assembly Line for an Information Age Workforce
The rapid increase in change is outpacing our ability to handle it. Clearly, society must now develop information workers who apply on-demand cognitive tools to think through change in addition to training and to learning their way through change. The future in education and business training is to prepare workers with new skill sets.
Industrial age worker education was answer and problem-solving orientation, content memorization, and analytical, rational, and logical thinking skills. Thinking is based on using past and present data that already exists. In contrast, the information age worker’s education is question and innovation oriented, focused on accessing content on-demand, is change-adept, and promotes innovative thinking skills, as well as thinking based on using present and future data that does not yet exist.
Just as the invention of the assembly line and factory automation tools improved industrial-worker labor productivity, the invention of Facilitated Thinking Environments (FTEs) and cognitive tools, called thinkLets, will improve information-worker thinking productivity.
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Facilitated Thinking Environments:
The Assembly Line for an Information Age Workforce
The rapid increase in change is outpacing our ability to handle it. Clearly, society must now develop information workers who apply on-demand cognitive tools to think through change in addition to training and to learning their way through change. The future in education and business training is to prepare workers with new skill sets.
Industrial age worker education was answer and problem-solving orientation, content memorization, and analytical, rational, and logical thinking skills. Thinking is based on using past and present data that already exists. In contrast, the information age worker’s education is question and innovation oriented, focused on accessing content on-demand, is change-adept, and promotes innovative thinking skills, as well as thinking based on using present and future data that does not yet exist.
Just as the invention of the assembly line and factory automation tools improved industrial-worker labor productivity, the invention of Facilitated Thinking Environments (FTEs) and cognitive tools, called thinkLets, will improve information-worker thinking productivity.
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