Achieve Success With AI

Teaching can be seen as a process. It consists of a sequence of steps or functions : such as discovering information to delivering of lecture. Lean thinking aims to eliminate waste from any process. Therefore teaching is good candidate for the application of principles of lean thinking. Teaching is moving teaching what to teaching where. In the past, when schools were less in number and teacher were difficult get, teacher's job consisted of teaching a student "what and how". With the spread of education and advent of web, number of resources that teach you " what or how" are increasing in number and accessible from anywhere. In this context, teaching becomes more of "teaching where" to look for learning resources and how to harness them. Lean teaching is all about linking students to minimum number of learning resources. This must eliminate waste in terms of unsuccessful searches.

With networks sweeping our life, it is time to observe them and crystallise their behaviour into proverbs. Here are two I have formed You can't crawl the same web twice On the web every search is a surprise

Experts recommend that learner's life at educational institution must be linked to their life outside of it. The learner's life outside of educational institution includes life at home and in community. Linking of learner's life to outside also implies that it must also include institutions where he/she is expected take positions and where his/her participation is required. One such future institution for a technical graduate is obviously industry. At higher education life this also means readying learner for professional life. Experts also recognise that given space, time and freedom,learners generate new knowledge by engaging with information passed on to them by adults: teachers and parents. We have been often told that we live in information age and information is a productive factor. The web has become a growing source of information and one of the necessary skills to be cultivated in learners is to "know where" i.e. ability to locate and procure information

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Web today is resourceful enough to create jobs, sustain careers and build enterprises and may even be able to usher new economic order. Understanding potential of resourceful web and designing a systematic approach to harness it is becoming a necessity. We need a web oriented career planning (WOCP). This planning process must make web central to all our career thinking and help us in determining the true potentail of the web and its far reaching implications in creating new web-based careers and in enriching traditional careers. In addition, this approach also help us in graduating ourself into web based career.

In this post, I am going list and describe four-step approach for success in any human endeavour. I am calling it a nibble for success since nibble is a computing term for a four-bit aggregation and as a verb it means doing things in small and steady steps. At any stage of our personal , professional or institutional life, we face the following questions. What to do next ? : This is a fundamental question and answering this is very essential . The answer provides direction to individual or institution. For example. when companies ask this question, it may take form such as " what is our next product?" what is our next market?. When an individual poses this, it may turn out to be " what can I do after B.E? or what is the next position in my career path? Not knowing answer to this crucial questions puts us into a position or disadvantage which experts call " Strategic Gap ". In other words we are facing a "strategic gap" or do not know the future dire

Humans have some advantages . Through our language use, humans are able to bind time i.e, human beings of one generation have been able to communicate with human beings of other generations. In other words, one generation can learn from the records of knowledge and experience. The inventions in the past such as printing machines have only amplified this process. But learning that books and sharing of experience that records facilitated was of different nature. When you read a book, however recent it is, you are consulting with the "past". past fact, past thought etc However, the web or the Internet has transformed this bind time into new world of possibilities. With web features such as chat, email, blog etc, you can get connected to and consult with active mind in the "present". This in a sense makes it available to all a kind of " world brain" that they can access in real time . So what web has done to us is share " Freshest Thoughts, fastest

Anyone living today is probably living in one of best times of human history. No time in the recorded human history was so opportune for individuals and institutions as it is today. Today's world is full of technology and challenges. It has so many technologies available and so challenges to face that it is very interesting proposition for individuals and institutions alike. You may start with a technology of your choice and choose a problem that can be solved by the use of that technology. Companies such as Infosys , TCS , Wipro used ICT technologies to create business and generated lakhs of jobs. Companies such as Suzlon are at creating greener and safer world. Hospitals such as Apollo are busy at creating healthier India. So it looks tha all that is needed is find your "call" and go for it. It need not start big, Infosys started with 7 people in 1981 and Suzlon with just 20 people in 1995. So go ahead and find your challenge.