Jim McLaughlin's Blog

Even though the field of knowledge management KM has been around for 15 to 20 years, it is still evolving and has room for improvement. When we look at the business environment today, we see a graying work force. With four generations in the work force in many countries, we’ll have to improve cross-generational knowledge… Read more

If you want to see the future—and who doesn’t?—the place to begin your search is now. It’s not only that the future is already here, just unevenly distributed, as William Gibson has put it. Sometimes it’s all around us and we just haven’t noticed. If you want to see the future of education and knowledge,… Read more

Terrific set of ideas on this topic. Differentiated Learning. Read more

Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education. Read more

THE CHALLENGE Adolescent learners vary widely in their physical, emotional, and cognitive development. For many teachers, the most challenging aspect of teaching middle school students is the constant problem solving energy required to meet their diverse needs. When diversity is at its peak, we are sometimes left feeling that short of super-human feats on the… Read more

Mathematically gifted students have needs that differ in nature from those of other students. They require some differentiated instruction, defined by Tomlinson (1995) as “consistently using a variety of instructional approaches to modify content, process, and/or products in response to learning readiness and interest of academically diverse students.” Yet recent studies have found few instructional… Read more