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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.
  • Alan McCluskey on 08 Jan 08
     
    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

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  • As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off
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      Alan McCluskey on 08 Jan 08
       
      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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  • it becomes nearly impossible to look beyond what you know and think outside the box you’ve built around yourself.
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  • once you’ve become an expert in a particular subject, it’s hard to imagine not knowing what you do
  • 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.
  • 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

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

Science, Industry and Business: the innovations-report - 0 views

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    The forum for science, industry and economy that promotes innovation dynamics, networking of innovation and performance potentials.

    With more than 6,700 international content partners and over 93,000 publications about the latest developments and research results, interesting studies and statistics as well as innovative processes, products and services of future-oriented companies and renowned scientific institutions, innovation report is counted amongst important initiators of international innovation events.
Alan McCluskey

FearNot! software to tackle bullying in schools to be trialled - 0 views

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  • Software developed by a consortium of European universities, including the University of Hertfordshire, which will tackle bullying in schools will be trialled on 900 school children starting next week (12th).
  • Alan McCluskey on 18 Dec 07
     
    Software developed by a consortium of European universities, including the University of Hertfordshire, which will tackle bullying in schools will be trialled on 900 school children starting next week (12th).
Alan McCluskey

Leicester takes radical look at educational value of virtual 3D learning - 0 views

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    A new experimental research island has been established by the University of Leicester in a pioneering project that aims to identify the educational benefits of Virtual Worlds.
Alan McCluskey

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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

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

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

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

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

Schooling for Tomorrow - 0 views

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  • The Schooling for Tomorrow project (SfT) is a major CERI project since the late 1990s, developing futures thinking in education. Its starting point is that neglect of the long term is increasingly problematic in meeting the challenges of complexity and change that education is facing.
  • Alan McCluskey on 18 Dec 07
     
    The Schooling for Tomorrow project (SfT) is a major CERI project since the late 1990s, developing futures thinking in education. Its starting point is that neglect of the long term is increasingly problematic in meeting the challenges of complexity and change that education is facing.
Alan McCluskey

Encouraging Innovation in Our Schools | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Once again, the policy makers have it wrong. How can you gather policymakers to discuss innovation in education without teachers and their professional associations?
  • Once again, the policy makers have it wrong. How can you gather policymakers to discuss innovation in education without teachers and their professional associations?
  • Alan McCluskey on 18 Dec 07
     
    The author says: "Once again, the policy makers have it wrong. How can you gather policymakers to discuss innovation in education without teachers and their professional associations?"
Alan McCluskey

High School Innovation Projects - 0 views

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highschool innovation

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  • In cooperation with state and national partners, the North Carolina New Schools Project (NCNSP) has launched an unprecedented effort to create at least 100 academically rigorous, focused and flexible new and redesigned high schools over the next five years.
  • Alan McCluskey on 18 Dec 07
     
    In cooperation with state and national partners, the North Carolina New Schools Project (NCNSP) has launched an unprecedented effort to create at least 100 academically rigorous, focused and flexible new and redesigned high schools over the next five years.
Alan McCluskey

School Innovation - 0 views

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e-portfolios etwinning innovation schools whiteboards

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    An EUN dossier about innovation in schools including:
    Spotlight on Calibrate schools
    Interactive Whiteboards introduced in a Belgian Catholic Primary School
    Scenario building in education
    New eTwinning Handbook 2007
    Types of e-portfolios
    e-Portfolio Scenarios

Alan McCluskey

Innovation Exchange - 0 views

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  • The Innovation Exchange is a programme where innovators from the third sector, public servants and social investors can collaborate to tackle specific social problems together.
  • Alan McCluskey on 18 Dec 07
     
    The Innovation Exchange is a programme of the UK Innovation Unit where innovators from the third sector, public servants and social investors can collaborate to tackle specific social problems together.
Alan McCluskey

The Innovation Unit - Home - 0 views

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    The UK Innovation Unit promotes innovation to improve education and children's services. It acts as a catalyst for change and draws on expertise from both the public and private sectors, combining practitioner expertise with the ambition of policy makers.
Alan McCluskey

Taking Innovation to School - 0 views

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innovation school technology us

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  • Congress considers additional funding for research and development work focused on applying technology to improve education.
  • Alan McCluskey on 18 Dec 07
     
    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

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innovation mathematics school science technology

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  • Over 350 innovative projects have been funded through this initiative, which focuses on improving teaching and learning in schools in the areas of science, technology and mathematics.
  • Alan McCluskey on 17 Dec 07
     
    Over 350 innovative projects in Australia have been funded through the ASISTM initiative
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