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Martin Leicht

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

  • 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.
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      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.
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      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
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      DT - it's a framework for thinking about complex, multidisciplinary problems to be applied to anything
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      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
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      study of the past sets us up to live well in future
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      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
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      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.
Brian C. Smith

An Ode to Maker Camp: What Makes a Maker? Childhood - 0 views

  • Dr. Guilford’s question: “How are you going to design something if you’ve never built anything?”
  • How are you going to build something if you’ve never taken something apart?
  • How are you going to come up with interesting ideas and solutions if you’ve never been allowed to play with physical and digital bits and pieces?
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  • It takes a playful, curious person to take things apart and imagine new ways to put the parts back together.
  • Youthful creativity combined with readily available materials often leads to a whirlwind of wonderful things.
  • Amon Milner, a maker/educator, what a “maker” was, he replied that “[all] people are makers. And the conditions in which people can grow up and have that supported and still do it into adulthood is a very special person… Every [child] is a maker and some get to stay that way longer.”
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    How are you going to design something if you've never built anything?
Martin Leicht

A lawyer rewrote Instagram's terms of service for kids. Now you can understand all of t... - 1 views

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    "see page 10"
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    Does this fit the "Modern Learning" we are after? I appreciate the article and it provides a resource for discussion with kids, but I think it's more of a digital literacy item. I know, DL is a part of modern learning, but I'd like to see this space grow beyond just tech-focused items and push thinking about learning and teaching. On second thought... I have an alert for this group so I receive it in my email. Who's reading Diigo anymore anyway?
Martin Leicht

Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs - The New York Times - 0 views

  • For every robot per thousand workers, up to six workers lost their jobs and wages fell by as much as three-fourths of a percent,
  • the theory goes, new technology has created new jobs for software developers and data analysts
  • very little employment increase in other occupations to offset the job losses in manufacturing.
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      What will the displaced workers do in the future? They all can not work at Starbucks? They can't go work at the movies either as iTunes makes it easier to see movies at home. Can they become software engineers?
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      So do we ensure we/students have the skills to transfer jobs/roles easily? The challenge of manufacturing to healthcare is difficult. The ability to learn, stands at the forefront of skills to acquire.
  • worked in Detroit for 10 years, you don’t have the skills to go into health care,” he said. “The market economy is not going to create the jobs by itself
  • Steve Mnuchin, who said at an Axios event last week that artificial intelligence’s displacement of human jobs was “not even on our radar screen,” and “50 to 100 more years” away
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      Is this not a red flag in itself that the Trump Administration does not see the rise of AI as a challenge a bigger challenge?
  • and that number will rise because industrial robots are expected to quadruple.
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      2.4 million robots in the workforce. They do not give a time frame?
  • but the effect on male employment was up to twice as big.
  • In an isolated area, each robot per thousand workers decreased employment by 6.2 workers and wages by 0.7 percent. But nationally, the effects were smaller, because jobs were created in other places.
  • If automakers can charge less for cars because they employ fewer people, employment might increase elsewhere in the country,
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      Is this our experience that automaton enters the equation and prices get cheaper? That would be a great research project to look into.
  • cannot replicate human traits like common sense and empathy
  • new jobs created by technology are not in the places that are losing jobs, like the Rust Belt
  • From 1993 to 2007, the United States added one new industrial robot for every thousand workers — mostly in the Midwest, South and East — and Western Europe added 1.6.
  • like machine learning, drones and driverless cars — will have similar effects, but on many more people
Martin Leicht

The End of 'Genius' - The New York Times - 0 views

  • JOSHUA WOLF SHENK
  • The elemental collective, of course, is the pair. Two people are the root of social experience — and of creative work.
  • given that our psyches take shape through one-on-one exchanges, we’re likely set up to interact with a single person more openly and deeply than with any group
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  • he found that groups created a sense of community, purpose and audience, but that the truly important work ended up happening in pairs
  • Two people can make their own society
  • The pair is also inherently fluid and flexible
  • Three legs make a table stand in place. Two legs are made for moving
  • But nobody can hide in a pair.
  • The pair is the primary creative unit — not just because pairs produce such a staggering amount of work but also because they help us to grasp the concept of dialectical exchange.
  • And when we listen to creative people describe breakthrough moments that occur when they are alone, they often mention the sensation of having a conversation in their own minds
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    the "pair" take on creativity - no "solo" genius
Brian C. Smith

Computer Science Should Supplement, not Supplant Science Education - 0 views

  • In the integrated STEM classroom, using the principles of NGSS, educators are working to seek out real-world, relevant, authentic problems that would be of interest to students and ask them to apply computational thinking to solve the problem using data analysis, visualization, seeking patterns, and computation.
  • And as everyone knows, time in the school schedule is VERY limited and providing computer science as on a separate track cuts the instructional time pie even more, and sets up another silo in high schools.
Dana Watts

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

  • 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

Key Features Of A Meaningful eLearning Course - eLearning Industry - 0 views

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      planning keeps appearing as #1 factor in online learning
  • A learning objective is a statement in clear, measurable terms that informs what a learner will be able to do after completing a training program.
  • Ask them rhetorical questions which will compel them to think Ask learners to pick up definitions and examples of terms taught from various sources End the course with a scenario followed by a couple of questions. Get learners to comment on discussion forums on the usefulness and applicability of a course Get them to summarize learning by creating a checklist Ask them to pick items from the options provided and justify their choice
Martin Leicht

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

  • 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.
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