…Mind-crippling ano? Nakaka-bobo. Unang-una it’s nothing I haven’t heard before, and pangalawa—and even worse—it’s nothing my students haven’t heard from me already.
So I decided to apply my tried-and-tested technique for killing all things boring: today, my class is going to the movies. FIVE movies, to be exact. Instead of the usual lecture (which I really really really hate giving—and receiving!), my class will do a little business research for film-buffs. My studes are going to look for the erstwhile-boring IT principles at work in these “futuristic fantasy worlds”:
- The Department of Pre-Crime from The Minority Report,
- Zion from The Matrix,
- The Enterprise from Star Trek,
- The Jedi Council from Star Wars, and
- Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters from X-Men
I’m excited to see what they’ll come up with. My class is at 2:30pm and it’s still 8:30am now as I write this. I know I know… this looks like some flimsy “Plan B” for not giving a lecture today but that’s not it, pramis! What the heck, if it works and all that jazz, you know...
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A stab, is all:
The Department of Pre-Crime from The Minority Report--Application of KM, BI and analytics
Zion from The Matrix--a fully integrated ecosystem consisting of communities of practice, established knowledge infrastructure
The Enterprise from Star Trek--KM, BI, Collaboration, Portal technologies? ( ha ha)
The Jedi Council from Star Wars--strategic alignment, commitment from top management, collaboration
Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters from X-Men-Selective sourcing
thanks for your ideas anonymous commenter! i will share them in class when i discuss the activity further next thursday on our next session. i will share the most interesting comments my students have come up with in an upcoming post.
i particularly like your observation about STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT and THE JEDI COUNCIL... i think this match is the best fit. although one may still ask what the jedi council's strategic goal is... alignment is one thing, but alignment towards what?
At the risk of sounding pretentious and taking out the fun
in this discussion, here goes...
I think Darth Vader was a product of the Jedi Council's failure to attain strategic alignment. If we consider that the Jedi's strategic goal was to protect the republic from encroachment from the Dark Side and destruction(as was the case) alignment in this case would mean that all Jedis adhere to adhoc orders, rules, SOPs, tactics, guidelines etc set forth by the council.
yo know what? my students mentioned something to that effect... that in some way, the jedi's use of some principles went wrong, leading to the rise of the dark side within them. maybe due to the time constraint--they had to make the analysis in 20 minutes only and to present their case in 10--my studes weren't able to specify in which principle the jedi council failed. thanks for your insight... will definitely cite it--and you!--in class.
The Jedi principles are sound--they're just not for ordinary humans. Quite expected of a major protagonist of a movie epic, Anakin was made to be "The One" but at the same time was imbued with more human qualities of love, agony, fear and despair than any other Jedi. And what chance has the Force against...err...love? No amoung of Jedi Council strategic alignment brainwashing can override Anakin's human impulses. That's the irony--by responding to his human instincts, Anakin lost, albeit not entirely, his sense of humanity.
btw, methinks you're very creative in teaching IT. Nice work! My IT class not too many years ago was extremely boring.
Your Anonymous commenter :-)
have to admit i bored even myself when i started teaching a couple of years ago. now i try my best to think of things to make the class more interesting, short of performing a song and dance number just to perk things up... joke!
thanks again!
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