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What do you think about Catalan issue? - 35 views

I found in my college works (V.Rupainiene, 2003) some definition of innovation: educational innovation is a new idea, practice and process, something what is understood as newly implemented at the ...

Alan McCluskey

Innovate: Fair Use Education for the Twenty-First Century: A Comparative Study of Stude... - 0 views

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    This article describes the implementation and evaluation of the University of Minnesota's Fair Use Analysis (FUA) tool, an interactive online application intended to educate users and foster defensible fair use practice in accordance with copyright law by guiding users through a robust, fact-specific, four-factor analysis.
Alan McCluskey

It's official: Your IT department doesn't cope well with change - 0 views

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    Where the resistance lise!
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    It's hilarious when you think about it: technology is touted as being one of the key drivers of change, but those people sitting on power over how we use IT in companies and administrations are some of the least capable of embracing change.
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    The reactions give even more insight. Trying out innovative new tools is by the respondents regarded as sth that is not key to business processes. You should only be allowed to use tools that are tested. Understandable from some perspectives, but couldn't IT departments become a little more open in supporting and working together with advanced users?
Alan McCluskey

The innovation mindset. An example of negotiating meaning in a group. - 0 views

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    When trying to understand what the word innovation is meant to mean, it is not so much the dictionary definition that interests us but rather the meanings that people give the word when they use it...
Alan McCluskey

P2V Project': A toolkit for the evaluation of ICT in schools - 0 views

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    About the evaluation framework emerging from the P2V inspectors strand that can be used in evaluation and self-evaluation of shcools and their use of ICT.
Alan McCluskey

Innovative Minds Don't Think Alike - New York Times - 0 views

  • As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off
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      Some of the ideas expressed here (in Chip's book) might be useful in thinking about how policy-hsapers can have more impact on policies adopted by policy-makers.
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      Only available second hand on Amazion.co.uk
  • it becomes nearly impossible to look beyond what you know and think outside the box you’ve built around yourself.
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  • People who design products are experts cursed by their knowledge, and they can’t imagine what it’s like to be as ignorant as the rest of us.
  • once you’ve become an expert in a particular subject, it’s hard to imagine not knowing what you do
  • Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.
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    About how expertise can hinder innovation and creativity because it tends to fence in ideas and limit possibilities, especially within specific areas of expertise. So thought has to be given to stepping outside existing frameworks and how new ideas are communicated to others.
Alan McCluskey

Taking Innovation to School - 0 views

  • Congress considers additional funding for research and development work focused on applying technology to improve education.
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    The US Congress considers additional funding for research and development work focused on applying technology to improve education. Two main goals would be to fund digitisation of content and to act as a clearinghouse for R&D into advanced technology applications for training and learning
Alan McCluskey

Futurelab - Innovation in education - 0 views

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    transforming the way people learn through innovative technology and practice
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    The Futurlab site contains sections about projects: - the innovate award scheme; - the Models of Innovation project investigating conditions and strategies to support innovation in the design and development of digital learning resources; - teachers as innovators in teaching and learning with digital resources; - Why don't you? .. a porject about providing tested new tools and approaches that could be used to try something in a new way ... and available resources (reports; handbooks; articles,...)
Alan McCluskey

Blog of Collective Intelligence - 0 views

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    Collective intelligence is the capacity of human communities to evolve towards higher order complexity and harmony, through such innovation mechanisms as differentiation and integration, competition and collaboration.
Alan McCluskey

Web 2.0: Helping Reinvent Education : January 2008 : THE Journal - 0 views

  • "Thinking is now distributed," he said, "across minds, tools and media, groups of people, and space and time." It is important, he shared, for people to be fluent in new technologies and literacies because more and more jobs are disappearing that require classical knowledge.
  • Web 2.0, Dede noted, is "centered around Web-based communities, where the central theme is to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing." It is an environment where knowledge is gained through bottom-up, individual methods, rather than top-down, traditional forms. "Web 2.0," he said, "is a major paradigm shift in the way people think."
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      Creativity and collaboration and sharing are not an automatic results of using web tools. They require the right practices and the right institutional conditions if they are to survive and flourish.
  • In a world where learners are being shaped by the things they do outside of the classroom, he said, how do we prepare students for careers that do not exist yet and that will be driven by these very same methods of learning?
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    A talk by a specialist in teacher training about the impact of Web 2.0 on education. For those already interested in change in education thanks to ICT, this may bring little new. When are people going to go beyond statements about how things are radically changing to what we are going to do about it?
Alan McCluskey

Innovative Minds Don't Think Alike - New York Times - 0 views

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      What is being advocated here is the "naive" approach or the Martian's eye-view, in which you look at familiar things as if you were completely new to them. Nothing is taken for granted. Even the most obvious aspects can be questioned.
  • experts have to slow down and go back to basics
  • “I would ask my very, very basic questions,” she said, noting that it frustrated some of the people who didn’t know her. Once they got past that point, however, “it always turned out that we could come up with some terrific ideas,” she said.
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    The second half of the New York Times article about innovation. It  highlights the usefulness of the outside perspective. This is one of the rich aspects of peer-exchange work across countires and differing cultures and perspectives that is not properly understood and exploited by peers.
Alan McCluskey

KMWorld.com: The Future of the Future: <I>Boundary-less living, working and learning</I> - 0 views

  • Meeting the intellectual and creative challenges of the 21st century demands using every ounce of creativity available. That means building and sustaining a creative environment for yourself, your employees and your family. As a knowledge worker, you need time to think. To innovate. To experience. To create. And you can’t do it in offices designed for a bygone era, loaded with stress, distractions and interruptions. The same goes for neighborhoods. That’s why environment is more important than ever, on all fronts.
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    This article advocates a future without traditional boundaries between work and home and learning. Although effectively such a relaxing of boundaries is under way, we must also think that boundaries are what makes sense fo the world.
    See my article about "Open sourcing ideas: a hacker approach to learning working and writing."
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    This article advocates a future without traditional boundaries between work and home and learning. Although effectively such a relaxing of boundaries is under way, we must also think that boundaries are what makes sense of the world.
    See my article about "Open sourcing ideas: a hacker approach to learning working and writing."
Alan McCluskey

Innovation Predictions 2008 - 0 views

  • The demand for innovation is soaring in the business community and is just beginning to gain traction in the political sphere.
  • And expect the whole realm of social networking to change in 2008. Just when you "got it" and thought it was all about open, personal, and casual online relationships, social media will morph into another ecosystem—one with lots of gates.
  • Companies are demanding new tools and methods to execute that change within their existing organizations, as well as for the kind of design thinking that transforms cultures.
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  • Companies are demanding that their managers be more creative and less obsessed with cost and efficiency.
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    A not very inspiring look at the near future from Business Week. It does confirm the ever-growing interest in innovation in the US that is also being felt in Europe.
Alan McCluskey

Innovation and Excellence - Middle Year School - 0 views

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      The use of clusters of schools to encourage innovation is an interesting idea.
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    The Schools for Innovation and Excellence initiative commenced in 2003 and supports primary and secondary schools to work closely together in clusters over three years to deliver innovation and excellence in Victorian education. Clusters receive funding to develop strategically effective education programs to advance student learning. From 2005, every Victorian government school will be in a cluster, with a total of 247 clusters in operation.
Alan McCluskey

Research on Innovation - 0 views

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    A series of papers about innovation, parrticularly patents but also on open source process and intellectual property.
Alan McCluskey

The stress of innovation - 0 views

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    About the flashy new system for shoppers at the Coop in Switzerland supposedly to help buying be easier. The surprise side-effects of adopting certain innovations.
Alan McCluskey

Innovation and ICT enabling changes in education - 0 views

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    The following text is based on the answers of thirty-three experts from sixteen European countries to a series of questions about possible changes in education as a response to one of eight challenges identified by the European Commission in its working p
Alan McCluskey

Presentation Zen: If your idea is worth spreading, then presentation matters - 0 views

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    (Alan) This article about how to make good presentations might be useful in preparing the presentation of the policy soution for the end of the P2V visit to Barcelona.
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