At the recent HR Florida conference as I have previously discussed, a peer asked a panel of social media guru's when his employees were collaborating if they were constantly on Facebook and Twitter? Now I open the paper this morning and find an article about a social studies teacher at Clearwater HS. At the beginning of the school year Clearwater HS became the first high school in the country to issue all of their students Kindles and have eventually all their textbooks on the tablet. Well it seems that this social sciences teacher was in the middle of a lecture when she noticed that a majority of the students were seemingly paying more attention to their kindle then her. Thinking that they were spending more time surfing the web then paying attention in class, she stopped the class. Reality set in. Turns out the students were using the kindle unit to keep their class notes on rather then pulling out a piece of paper or a notebook. In fact the artice said they were keeping better notes then before the kindles were issued.
So my question to you is what is your perspective on the use of technology by your employees? Are they using social media as a way to back away from their required responsibilities or they actually collaborating more with colleagues to get the job done? Are you ready to accept the new paradigm?
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