by Dwayne Phillips Government-operated schools are failing in the US. The plutocrats are returning to the 1700s by creating their own schools just for their own kids. Government-operated schools are failing us. I don’t need to link to stories about that. There are, of course, exceptions here and there. One of the best indicators of […]
Education Returns to the 1700s
January 7th, 2016 · No Comments
CompTIA Security+
December 7th, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Over the weekend, I passed the test for CompTIA Security+ certification. It was probably the worst test I have taken since my junior year of college (back when we scratched answers on cave walls with colored rocks). Anyways, I memorized a bunch of stuff and passed a test. Perhaps this will come […]
Tags: Computing · Education · Learning · Security
ITIL Foundation Certification
October 29th, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I earn a ITIL Foundation-level certification. For the past six or eight years I have heard of ITILĀ certification. I didn’t pay much attention to it as I wasn’t an Enterprise IT person and did see a way that I could qualify for it. A recent look at it changed my mind. […]
Tags: Change · Computing · Education · Employment · Knowledge · Learning
Economy Requires Neglect
June 15th, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Unless we are rich, we neglect those persons and things that are far from the normal. Economy requires neglect; sorry. In schools, we have big classes. We try to reach the middle of the class, the group near the center of the normal distribution (we used to call this distribution the “bell […]
Tags: Choose · Education · General Systems Thinking · Management
Cultural Adjustment and Technology Runaway
April 16th, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Technology appears to be changing so fast that culture and jobs cannot keep pace. This leads to a large group of people whose newly acquired skills never give birth to a new job. Culture adjusts to technology. The automobile displaced everyone in the horse and buggy industry. The culture and the economy […]
Tags: Adapting · Change · Culture · Education · Employment · Technology
The Ever-Growing Digital Divide
April 2nd, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The digital divide grows wider as the almost plutocrats are educating their kids in a way that will make the kids the true plutocrats of tomorrow. It appears that many who have become rich in today’s technical world are educating their kids at home. They have every right to do so, and […]
Tags: Education
Us as the User Guide
February 16th, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Don’t look to the provider’s user manual; look to the rest of us. I don’t know why it has taken me so long to write about this topic. Almost everyone already knows this, but for the record… I ran into this situation again this week. I was learning how to use a […]
Tags: Communication · Consulting · Education · Ideas · Internet · Knowledge · Learning
Tell Them it is Normal
January 29th, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Life is full of challenges and frustrations. Some of these are normal. When encountering normal with a person who has not encountered it before, explain to them that it is normal. I once tutored a young man through a frustrating process at work. In the middle of the pull-out-your-hair and smash-your-head-through-the-wall day, […]
Tags: Communication · Consulting · Education · Expectations · Learning
They Can Read It at Home
January 15th, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips One thing teachers today have to realize is that the learners can read it all at home at their leisure. The title of this post will haunt educators of all types. It has haunted college professors for decades. They can read it at home So why “lecture?” I remember the TV show […]
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The Question and Answer Method of Writing
December 1st, 2014 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips One way to write is to first write a list of questions, set the questions some place you can see them, and answer all the questions. I continue to work with college students on their writing, and they continue to teach me. A recent assignment the students were working involved answering a […]
Tags: Communication · Education · Writing