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This is quite a good video/resource, but it is the bit at 3:36 I want to draw your attention to …

“The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years. For students starting a 4 year technical degree this means that half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.”

Question: Are we, as instructors and facilitators to the learning, keeping ourselves and our materials up to date to accommodate this kind of rapid development?

In many cases, I think not! Shame.

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By David Hopkins – March 24, 2009

  • http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/ Ryan

    Thanks David. I had seen that clip somewhere before, but upon seeing it again, the stats still blew my mind. Regarding the exponential growth of technical information, that seems to be the key argument of connectivism. For me it reinforces the constant need for collaborative learning and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.

  • http://newmiddle-earth.blogspot.com/ Ken Allan

    Kia ora David

    The property of any quantity related to an exponentially dependent factor is like the situational data on the vid. What we must realise is that the amount of ‘information’ reached the awesome stage long before the Internet sent its first signal.

    The tendency is to believe that all technical information is useful. And that the generation of all this information squeezes existing useful information out of use, so that it must be replaced. This is fallacious, for it implies that we have to rethink how we learn to walk and talk just because people are travelling faster and communicating faster than ever before.

    How do you eat an elephant? The answer is a bite at a time. It doesn’t matter how many elephants will be available to eat in 2020. When that year comes, the answer to the question will still be the same.

    Catchya later

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