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This presentation’s content was based on these two original posts: “Design Thinking is Killing Creativity” and its follow up post “How Can We Fix the Problems of Design Thinking“. Do have a look as the originals if you would like some more background information. For the purposes of this presentation, I took the opportunity to clean up the content and add a few new details.

Die Frage, die sich bei solchen, primär offline generierten, Projekten im Nachhinein stellt: Welche Vorteile hätte es gehabt, wenn der gesamte Prozess qualitativ durch Social Media begleitet worden wäre? Was hätte sich am Ergebnis eventuell verändert? Und wie liesse sich heute dieser Prozess gegebenenfalls qualitativ anreichern über Social Media? Macht es einen Unterschied? Oder kann man die kollektive Intelligenz des Web 2.0 auch bei guter Offline-Vernetzung generieren?

The design process is what puts Design Thinking into action. It’s a structured approach to generating and developing ideas. The Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators, available as a free download here, provides guidance through the five phases of the design process. It outlines a sequence of steps that leads from defining a challenge to building a solution. The toolkit offers a variety of instructional methods to choose from, including concise explanations, useful suggestions and tips.

Design Thinking ist ein Prozess der Schüler unterstützt Lernen zu gestalten, ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf sich und ihre Umgebung zu lenken und diese letztendlich selber aktiv mitzugestalten. Schüler engagieren sich mehr und erzielen eine höhere Lernleistung, wenn sich der Lernbezug auf reale Projekte und für sie relevante Situationen konzentriert.

By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers….96% of them have joined a social network Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media Years to Reach 50 millions Users:  Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iPod (3 Years)…Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months…iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months. If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest between the United States and Indonesia (note that Facebook is now creeping up – recently announced 300 million users)

That tool is abductive reasoning

The vast majority of students are exposed to formal logic only by inference and then only to the two dominant forms of logic — deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning.

Formal logic isn’t systematically taught in our North American educational system, except to students of philosophy or the history of science.

You can think of building your own Personal Learning Network as an attempt to create this “learning loop” for yourself using the tools at your disposal. Instead of a bunch of teachers selecting challenging information for you, the Internet gives you access to a world of bloggers, tweeters, speakers, photographers, videographers, and colleagues who will teach you anything you want for nothing more than the price of your time and attention. All they ask of you is to think about it, question it, master the skills, and respond in a thoughtful way. You can participate in this conversation by writing your own blog, tweeting, organizing sources, speaking, and teaching others in the way that works best for you.

What if a different source of value is becoming more powerful? We believe there's good reason to think that value is shifting from knowledge stocks to knowledge flows. Put more simply, we believe that flows trump stocks.

To succeed now, we have to continually refresh our stocks of knowledge by participating in relevant flows of new knowledge. But there are two challenges. First, knowledge doesn't flow very easily, especially if it is tacit rather than explicit knowledge.

To keep it simple, think of tacit knowledge as the "know how" rather than the "know what."

Unlike a traditional ad network, this one starts with a viral network at its very core. An @earlybird tweet seen by one million followers could be retweeted by just one percent and be seen by an additional 10,000 Twitter users. That's assuming a 1X pass along. Surely, some really good deals will be retweeted 20, 30, or many more times. In other words, @earlybird is, potentially, a very powerful idea.

Now, as Twitter recognized with its first ad-based tweets attempt, this program will only be as successful as the quality of the tweets, and by that I mean the advertising and deals. I assume Twitter has a team working with partners to create incredibly engaging, pithy, powerful, and ultra-attractive 140-character ads—at least I hope it does.

If Twitter's successful, the next phase is obvious: More ad network accounts. Some will be broad like this one. There'll likely be a "supersaver" account that offers really cheap deals. Then Twitter will move to more narrow categories, such as @automotivedeals and @technologyoffers. With each new, successful slice, Twitter ad accounts will get narrower and narrower until Twitter can charge extremely high prices for ultra-vertical ad accounts. Of course, Twitter has to build or acquire the right Twitter account names. Few as good as @earlybird are probably still available.

The HCD Toolkit was designed specifically for NGOs and social enterprises that work with impoverished communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The free kit, available for download here, walks users through the human-centered design process and supports them in activities such as building listening skills, running workshops, and implementing ideas.

We have worked with Google and the Google Wave team to make the following changes to the plan, which I think you will appreciate: We have re-enabled pad creation from the EtherPad home page. We have begun planning how to open source the code to EtherPad and the underlying AppJet Web Framework. We will continue maintaining new pad creation from the EtherPad home page at least until we have open sourced the code, and work hard to make sure there will be no or minimal service disruption in the future.

What do we think a “computer” is? I like to contrast three dominant metaphors or paradigms: PERSON, TOOL, MEDIA.