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Alan McCluskey

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

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  • Alan McCluskey on 10 Jul 08
     
    Where the resistance lise!
  • Alan McCluskey on 10 Jul 08
     
    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.
  • bertjaap on 22 Oct 08
     
    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

Understanding productivity in the Information Age - MIT Sloan Newsroom - 0 views

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email hubs information knowledge research

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  • The researchers found that information workers whose strong e-mail networks allow them to receive new information sooner than their peers — or to receive more pieces of new information — are likely to be more productive than their less well-connected counterparts. Workers who are “information hubs” complete more projects in a given period of time and thus generate more revenue for their firm.
  • Alan McCluskey on 17 Feb 08
     
    (Alan) There is a tendency to write off email as not being important because it is not "state-of-the-art"
  • Alan McCluskey on 17 Feb 08
     
    (Alan) There is a tendency to write off email as not being important because it is not "state-of-the-art", but it is extremely important in the dynamic of exchange and the development of new ideas. As this article indicates, emailing activity is an indication of the extent of individual networks and the size and richness of that network correlates with impact in research and innovation.
Alan McCluskey

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

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presentations

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  • Alan McCluskey on 17 Feb 08
     
    (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.
Alan McCluskey

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

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evaluation ict schools

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  • Alan McCluskey on 15 Feb 08
     
    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

E-Learning 2.0 ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes - 0 views

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e-learning future web2.0

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  • Alan McCluskey on 09 Feb 08
     
    [Alan's comments] A long article about development and tendencies in e-learning ... Downes coins the (unfortunate) term e-learning2.0  ...
Laia Martín

Meeting P2V BCN February - 0 views

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catalonia education ict innovation policy

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  • Laia Martín on 29 Jan 08
     
    Information related to the Catalan issue to be discussed on 20-22th February
Alan McCluskey

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

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creativitiy innovation internet web2.0

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  • "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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      Alan McCluskey on 08 Feb 08
       
      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?
  • Alan McCluskey on 08 Feb 08
     
    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

Innovation and Excellence - Middle Year School - 0 views

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australia innovation middleschool

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      Alan McCluskey on 05 Feb 08
       
      The use of clusters of schools to encourage innovation is an interesting idea.
  • Alan McCluskey on 18 Dec 07
     
    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

Study: 'Innovation' schools help teens - Examiner.com - 0 views

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highschools innovation tests

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  • Students achieve better test scores and attendance rates at the six smaller Baltimore City high schools where teachers have greater control over lessons and principals have more freedom when hiring staff, a new study shows.
    • Alan McCluskey
      Alan McCluskey on 05 Feb 08
       
      Unfortunately the article says very litttle about what makes these schools "innovative", apart from the autonomy they are granted to tailor programmes, their "best practices" and the addiitonal money made available.
  • Alan McCluskey on 18 Dec 07
     
    The "innovation" high schools provide more support for students and more positive learning environments than the city's other high schools
Alan McCluskey

Overview / Finland's future strategy - 1 views

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finland innovation policy

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  • Alan McCluskey on 05 Feb 08
     
    Details of the new Finnish Innovation Strategy which is not just about education but mainly about entrepreneurship and industry.
  • Alan McCluskey on 05 Feb 08
     
    In the page about implementation of the strategy it pleads for a holistic apporach to policy-making about innovation: "The key recommendations of the national innovation strategy will apply to the co-ordination of a broad-based innovation policy at the government level, and especially the co-ordination of the implementation of sector-specific development and innovation programmes. The objective of intensified co-ordination is to increase synergies between policy sectors in the promotion of innovations and to accelerate innovation activities especially in the public sector. The strategy will also outline how to promote the preconditions of Finnish enterprises and entrepreneurs in a comprehensive way."
Alan McCluskey

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

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future km knowledge working

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  • 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.
  • Alan McCluskey on 05 Feb 08
     
    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."
  • Alan McCluskey on 05 Feb 08
     
    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

Futurelab - Innovation in education - 0 views

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collaboration community del.icio.us e-learning education elearning future imported innovation learning pedagogy policy research school technologies technology

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    transforming the way people learn through innovative technology and practice
  • Alan McCluskey on 05 Feb 08
     
    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

TED | Talks | Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (video) - 0 views

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creativity education

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  • Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it.
  • Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize -- much less cultivate -- the talents of many brilliant people. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says.
    • Alan McCluskey
      Alan McCluskey on 05 Feb 08
       
      Ken Robinson's book entitled "Out of our minds - learning to be creative" is well worth the read and may provide some answers to the Catalonian question of making school more creative and innovative.
  • Alan McCluskey on 04 Jan 08
     
    An amusing talk by Sir Ken Robinson about creativity in education and how education pushes creativity out of children.
Alan McCluskey

Consistency and coherence key to successful innovation policy, says Potocnik - 0 views

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era innovation policy research

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  • '[Innovation policy] requires policy-makers and politicians to innovate in the way they conduct and implement policy,' commented Mr Potocnik.
  • Alan McCluskey on 31 Jan 08
     
    A speech by Commissioner Potocnik about innovation policy in Europe.
Alan McCluskey

Is the Tipping Point Toast? -- Duncan Watts -- Trendsetting - 0 views

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  • Alan McCluskey on 31 Jan 08
     
    A while ago, Roger Blamire mentioned a book called The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell that discusses how change comes about and advocates, amongst other things, the idea that a limited number of key players largely influence the spread of innovation. These trendsetters have come to be called the "influentials". A recent article in FastCompany challenges this idea, writing about the work done by Duncan Watts. Through large scale computer simulations, the latter arrives to the conclusion that the spread of idea has more to do with the "readiness" of society to accept them than the presence of trendsetters.  The polarity between the two approaches, accentuated by the journalist, may be misleading. Both ideas are probably parts of the overall picture. If you are interested about how change takes places, this article is worth a read.
Alan McCluskey

17 thoughts and ideas on forecasting the future from paul saffo :: Influxinsights - 0 views

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forecastng future innovation policymaking uncertainty

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  • Saffo views the current uncertainty as opportunity, rather than an impossible challenge.
  • Alan McCluskey on 13 Jan 08
     
    A summary of points made by Paul Saffo in a talk about predicting the future and the challenges it brings.
Alan McCluskey

Innovating e-Learning online conference 2007 : JISC - 0 views

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  • Alan McCluskey on 12 Jan 08
     
    The themes of the 2007 JISC online conference were "institutional transformation" and "supporting lifelong learning". Two interesting ebook about these subjects have been published.
Alan McCluskey

Creative Partnerships | Why creativity? - 0 views

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creativity innovation schools

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  • Creativity develops the capacity to imagine the world differently. We all need an ability not just to cope with change, but also to positively thrive on it and engineer it for ourselves.&nbsp; Therefore, young people need the tools to conceptualise how the world could be different and the inner confidence and motivation to make it happen.&nbsp; They need to be able to take risks and fail confidently. To do this young people need to enjoy learning, know how to seek out relevant information,&nbsp;apply knowledge and skills in new and imaginative ways and try out ideas in real world situations where they can observe real outcomes and receive generative critical feedback.
  • Alan McCluskey on 12 Jan 08
     
    A major UK project designed to foster creatviity in schools. Could open doors to introdsucing innovation in schools.
Alan McCluskey

Innovation Predictions 2008 - 0 views

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  • 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.
  • Alan McCluskey on 09 Jan 08
     
    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

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

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      Alan McCluskey on 08 Jan 08
       
      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.
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