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Martin Leicht

Three Critical Innovation Roles: Broker, Role Model, Risk-Taker - 0 views

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innovation risk problem solving

shared by Martin Leicht on 15 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • And because the roles are elusive and difficult to measure, they can go unappreciated and unnoticed.  And then they gradually fade away.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 15 Mar 17
       
      How do we ensure the risk taker role goes the opposite of fade away?
  • information silo
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 15 Mar 17
       
      You can't innovate in a silo. Can't do it!
  • They are the ones who seek out connections between people and ideas and foster conversation and interaction.
Martin Leicht

Is Design Thinking the New Liberal Arts? - CIO Journal. - WSJ - 0 views

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design thinking liberal arts college mash up remix

shared by Martin Leicht on 15 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • The first is feasibility
  • Next comes viability
  • The final dimension is desirability
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  • Design thinking is now being applied to abstract entities, such as systems and services, as well as to devise strategies, manage change and solve complex problems.
  • d.school, was launched in 2004 as a graduate program that integrates business, the social sciences, the humanities and other disciplines into more traditional engineering and product design
  • take on the world’s messy problems together.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 23 Nov 16
       
      human values & continuing evolution
  • deliberate mash-up of industry, academia and the big world beyond campus is a key
  • rigorous engineering education; entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking; and the arts, which broadly encompasses creativity, innovation and design
  • students needed to learn how to think critically and creatively every bit as much as they needed to learn finance or accounting.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 23 Nov 16
       
      approach from different perspectives & even combine approaches to find innovative solutions
  • has design thinking now become the new liberal arts? After pondering the question, I believe the answer is: No
  • Design Thinking is frequently identified as an engaging process and methodical framework for approaching complex, multidisciplinary problems in ways that consistently result in solutions that are successful and often creative in unpredictable way
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 23 Nov 16
       
      DT - it's a framework for thinking about complex, multidisciplinary problems to be applied to anything
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 23 Nov 16
       
      successful design solutions are found at the intersection of "feasibility", "viability," and "desirability.'
  • How is design thinking human-centered,
  • Do disciplines, in order to evolve and advance, need some place in which to play and from which to be provoked?… Research-as-questioning is a much freer and more playful approach to discovery. It keeps us in closer contact with our natural disposition to curiosity and wonder.”
  • concluded that their action-oriented approach to problem solving did not pay proper attention to past knowledge. “A truly human-centered design, if it takes culture at all seriously, would have to take pastness seriously
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 23 Nov 16
       
      study of the past sets us up to live well in future
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 24 Nov 16
       
      Design Thinking does not really focus much on the past beyond the definition of the problem/challenge were liberal arts does.
  • But for them to really shape the future of university learning, they will have to do a better job of engaging with precisely what the university was designed to promote, and what design thinking, with its emphasis on innovation, has thus far completely ignored: the past.”
  • The difference between science and engineering is often described by the nature of the questions that are asked: scientists ask why as they attempt to understand the world, while engineers ask why not as they attempt to change it and create what has never been
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 24 Nov 16
       
      You need both Science, the why, and Engineering, the why not, to fully leverage/use/benefit from design thinking. As do Liberal Arts and Design Thinking. Both are a symbiotic twin.
Dana Watts

Reinventing Medical School | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - 1 views

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shared by Dana Watts on 03 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • former global lead of systems design at IDEO.
  • a leadership-focused year of self-directed study, a team-based curriculum, and a first-of-its-kind Design Institute for Health, a joint collaboration between the Dell Medical School and the College of Fine Arts, developed to apply design thinking to health care challenges and innovation.
  • It will be the first new medical school at a tier 1 research university in more than 50 years (the most recent was Penn State in 1963), giving the school a unique opportunity to build its curriculum, facilities, and priorities from the ground up
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  • There is little valuable learning in that process."
  • Typical medical school curricula force students to memorize inordinate amounts of material, only to forget most of it after they take the exam," says Dr. Susan Cox, executive vice dean for academics and chair of medical education at Dell. "
Martin Leicht

Jennifer Mueller's Creative Change: Most people are secretly threatened by creativity -... - 0 views

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SLACK creativity ideas education making innovation thinking design

shared by Martin Leicht on 19 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • But research shows that many teachers define creativity as a skill that’s mainly associated with the art
  • Study after study shows that new ideas are chronically rejected at many companies, even businesses that say they want more innovation.
  • To cope with all this complexity, we strive for simplicity.
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  • So how do we unleash this potential for innovation? The first step is to face up to our (quite understandable) desire for clear-cut answers that affirm ideas with which we’re familiar.
Martin Leicht

What It Takes to Become an All Project-Based School | PROJECT BASED LEARNING | MindShif... - 0 views

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project learning based PBL

shared by Martin Leicht on 14 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • New Tech schools are entirely project-based and cross-disciplinary.
  • Students take courses like Bio-literacy, which mesh subjects together, emphasizing that disciplines are not stand-alone endeavors. Technology is woven throughout the school day and at home seamlessly.
  • only 60 percent of assessment is based on content. The other 40 percent is based on what he called “school-wide learning outcomes,” things like written and oral proficiency, work ethic, presentation skills and the ability to give and take feedback. Students can see the project rubric and know where they need to improve their skills.
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  • “Students are working on authentic projects and problems.” He gave an example of a cross curricular physics and environmental science class that studied the physics of power and electricity. “Our students learned those skills and then rewired houses that were destroyed in New Orleans’ 9th Ward.
  • Each school is given a coach who visits throughout the school year, checks on lesson plans, suggests changes and helps troubleshoot problems. And New Tech focuses on nurturing the leadership capacity of principals so they can continue to innovate with teachers.
  • decisions by consensus
  • When kids enter his seventh grade they are so used to the traditional school system, they don’t know how to work collaboratively on projects. “At first their grades go down just because it’s projects. It’s actually kind of harder because you have to be a self-learner.” In traditional schools, kids are constantly being directed, so they don’t have to think for themselves as much
Brian C. Smith

Teaching Children Thinking - 0 views

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learning Papert thinking teaching

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    "The purpose of this essay is to present a grander vision of an educational system in which technology is used not in the form of machines for processing children but as something the child himself will earn to manipulate, to extend, to apply to projects, thereby gaining a greater and more articulate mastery of the world, a sense of the power of applied knowledge and a self-confidently realistic image of himself as an intellectual agent. Stated more simply, I believe with Dewey, Montessori, and Piaget that children learn by doing and by thinking about what they do. And so the fundamental ingredients of educational innovation must be better things to do and better ways to think about oneself doing these things."
Martin Leicht

Play Is Serious Business | Psychology Today - 0 views

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play innovation creativity school education

shared by Martin Leicht on 22 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • the Prussian military developed a model that now resembles our school structure today
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 22 Aug 16
       
      Okay, we throw the Prussians under the bus for developing school, as we know it. 
  • Researchers have already exposed the risks of sitting for hours at a time and know that it increases health problems
  • Stuart Brown, one of the foremost play researchers in the world, states that play is essential for both brain development and social development, from childhood into adulthood.
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  • It is a biological mechanism for making learning enjoyable.
  • Play helps meld emotion into the experience of learning.
  • If a child is denied the opportunity to play, the body and mind fight back.
  • Play allows children to let off steam
  • positive emotions broaden the scope of attention and increase cognitive flexibility.  Why not embrace the tool in the curriculum?  
  • When school becomes a stressful place for a child, it is no longer a supportive, positive learning environment
  • teachers at traditional schools can adapt their classrooms to include more choices, more creativity, and more open play
  • Play has become a luxury – available in private schools that espouse progressive learning principles, but crowded out of public schools by a teach-to-the-test mentality.
  • Despite increasing research on play and emotion, relatively few studies of play within the school environment exist.
  • Increasingly, educators are calling for a return (link is external) to the greater integration of play into elementary education.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 22 Aug 16
       
      integration, the question what is the integration equation? How much play how much less structured teach to the test? 
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