"Here at Harvard our students believe it is better to create a job rather than find one"

I just saw The Social Network movie for the second time…and I am still amazed at the insight and innovation Mark Zuckerburg had at such a young age. I am 26 and my whole college career I have been told and molded for this one point …to get a job. It is my senior year, and even though I have a career line up for myself...I am not sure that my college experience was design to allow me to obtain a job. What this have to do with technology and training? The title of this post is from the movie The Social Network which is an amazing quote from the President of Harvard. The IT industry has two folds…existing technology and cutting edge technology. However, there is also the idea of future technology which can come from existing or cutting edge. My training class instructor just gave us an assignment to research articles on m-learning and the pivotal aspect I learned from this whole experience is that the idea or concept of m-learning is still in its very early stages and it is evolving quickly plus the technology behind m-learning is wide open. A part of me wants to stop everything I have work so hard for and become a pioneer of technology…Microsoft was the biggest idea to hit the computer technology after IBM created the PC, and Facebook was the has been the next greatest thing since email to hit the Internet…what is next? Are there any more huge different ideas out there? Impact is the key indegredit to technology not the technology itself. I challenge every college student especially those who do not attend Ivy league Universities to create their next career rather than find their next career!

M-learning

I read an article that talk about how a university is “pioneering” in mobile learning. First I think it is important to understand what is exactly is “Mobile learning” AKA m-learning-this term is referred to using mobile computer devices:(cell phones, mp3 players, PC tablets, notebooks) as the media delivery for education and training purposes.; this my very general definition. The article paints a picture of what the university did to bring m-learning to the campus, but does not give any insight as to how successful it has been. My thoughts are for younger generations born before 1989 technology learning applications are intuitive, where as people born after 1989 computer technology was introduce to them at later ages especially those born after 1980. Therefore, how does m-learning affect the current work force from ages 26 and up?