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David Ellena

How senior leaders can connect with front-line workers | @SmartBrief SmartBlogs - 0 views

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leadership strategies relationships

shared by David Ellena on 23 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Through one-on-one conversations and small-group chats, he created real, personal connections with many of the nearly 200,000 people who made his business run and gathered valuable information about their work and the hotels in the process.
  • Create a safe space for sharing.
  • Meet employees where they are.
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  • Be flexible about the forum.
  • Make room for impromptu encounters. I’ve discovered unscheduled, unscripted chats can be more informative than scheduled coffee chats or other more official forums.
  • Ask good questions.
  • David Ellena on 23 Oct 14
     
    Got out of the office. Here are some ideas on how to do that
Duane Sharrock

Bringing the world to innovation - MIT News Office - 0 views

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Time Magazine 100 most influential people innovation mit world global solutions TED founder Amy Smith Time influential people

shared by Duane Sharrock on 09 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • mentions: a popular TED talk Smith gave in 2006 and Time magazine’s
  • D-Lab, the project aimed to develop creative solutions to problems facing people in the world’s least-affluent countries — and then hoped those residents would embrace the solutions.
  • thanks to a major new U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) grant to D-Lab and MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, D-Lab’s instructors and researchers will implement this strategy even more broadly — providing greater continuity to projects around the world, says D-Lab founder Amy Smith, a senior lecturer in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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  • Awareness of D-Lab has grown in recent years, thanks in part to some prominent mentions: a popular TED talk Smith gave in 2006 and Time magazine’s selection of her in 2010 as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.
  • The program now employs about 20 people and encompasses 16 courses that reach about 400 students each year. Even though D-Lab does little to publicize its activities, staffers are increasingly hearing that this program was a major reason why participating students chose to attend MIT.
  • with the new USAID support, “we can harness the alumni of IDDS as a kind of an extremely diverse and dispersed design consultancy,”
  • While some students have already managed to turn class projects into ongoing organizations — building better water filters in Africa, bicycle-powered washing machines in Latin America, and wheelchairs in India, for instance — the new funding should enable more such activities, Smith says, by “incubating ventures and training entrepreneurs.”
  • The emphasis has shifted,” Grau Serrat says, “more from designing for poor people to designing with poor people, or even design by poor people.”
  • Duane Sharrock on 09 Nov 12
     
    Another reason some students are applying to MIT. Undergrads are making a difference globally. "the innovative MIT classes and field trips known collectively as D-Lab, the project aimed to develop creative solutions to problems facing people in the world's least-affluent countries - and then hoped those residents would embrace the solutions." "The program now employs about 20 people and encompasses 16 courses that reach about 400 students each year. Even though D-Lab does little to publicize its activities, staffers are increasingly hearing that this program was a major reason why participating students chose to attend MIT." "All of D-Lab's classes assess the needs of people in less-privileged communities around the world, examining innovations in technology, education or communications that might address those needs. The classes then seek ways to spread word of these solutions - and in some cases, to spur the creation of organizations to help disseminate them. Specific projects have focused on improved wheelchairs and prosthetics; water and sanitation systems; and recycling waste to produce useful products, including charcoal fuel made from agricultural waste."
  • Duane Sharrock on 09 Nov 12
     
    "All of D-Lab's classes assess the needs of people in less-privileged communities around the world, examining innovations in technology, education or communications that might address those needs. The classes then seek ways to spread word of these solutions - and in some cases, to spur the creation of organizations to help disseminate them. Specific projects have focused on improved wheelchairs and prosthetics; water and sanitation systems; and recycling waste to produce useful products, including charcoal fuel made from agricultural waste."
David Ellena

- From the Principal's Office: Change is a Mindset - 0 views

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  • David Ellena on 18 Jun 14
     
    Change is a mindset. Leading change takes vision and courage
David Ellena

How to get the most out of faculty meetings SmartBlogs - 0 views

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shared by David Ellena on 10 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • we were meeting with more consistent purpose, usually to discuss the next stage in some strategic priority or professional development objective.
  • Often, teacher input was solicited in advance to help create the agenda and ensure its usefulness.
  • Finally, a member of the school office was asked to attend the meetings to take copious notes of the conversation. This allowed for an accurate, detailed meeting summary to be distributed shortly after the staff had met.
  • David Ellena on 10 Jun 14
     
    Some ideas on restructuring your faculty meetings
Courtney Jablonski

On Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives, offered by Zur Institute, LLC for Psychologi... - 4 views

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eLearning Web 2.0 Tools 21st Century Learning Instructional Strategies Paradigm Shift

shared by Courtney Jablonski on 01 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • not all digital immigrants and not all digital natives are created equal
  • Digital Immigrants fall into the following three major groups
  • Avoiders:
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  • Reluctant adopters
  • Enthusiastic adopters
  • Digital Natives fall into the following three major groups
  • Avoiders
  • Avoiders:
  • Minimalists
  • Enthusiastic participants
  • Avoiders:
  • this means changing the educational model to be more participatory and less passive.
  • Schools need to churn out students who are excited about learning and ready to thrive in the world as they meet it after high school. This means that students should be proficient in: Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, Powerpoint); they should know how to write a business-appropriate email (no texting abbreviations); when it is and is not appropriate to text; when to turn off their phones; how to handle security breaches online (in the forms of sexual pictures of self or friends, stolen identity, bad online reviews, etc.).
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