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Katie Day

In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Jump’s work has elements of management consulting and a bit of design-firm draftsmanship, but its specialty is conceiving new businesses, and what it sells is really the art of innovation. The company is built on the premise that creative thinking is a kind of expertise. Like P.&G. and Mars, you can hire Jump to think on your behalf, for somewhere between $200,000 to $500,000 a month, depending on the complexity and ambiguity of the question you need answered. Or you can ask Jump to teach your corporation how to generate better ideas on its own; Jump imparts that expertise in one- and five-day how-to-brainstorm training sessions that can cost $200,000 for a one-day session for 25 employees.
  • What’s clear is that in recent years, much of corporate America has gone meta — it has started thinking about thinking. And all that thinking has led many executives to the same conclusion: We need help thinking. A few idea entrepreneurs, like Jump, Ideo and Kotter International, are companies with offices and payrolls. But many are solo practitioners, brains for hire who lecture at corporations or consult with them regularly. Each has a catechism and a theory about why good ideas can be so hard to come by and what can be done to remedy the situation.
  • “We’re not only blind to certain things, but we’re blind to the fact that we’re blind to them.”
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  • You often hear this from idea entrepreneurs: Don’t ask us for the answers. Let us help you frame the questions, so you can answer them yourself.
  • At Jump, they prefer to brainstorm with a variation of a technique pioneered in improv theater. A comic offers the first sentence of a story, which lurches into a (hopefully funny) tale, when someone else says, “Yes, and?” then adds another sentence, which leads to another “Yes, and?”— and back and forth it goes. In the context of brainstorming, what was once a contest is transformed into a group exercise in storytelling. It has turned into a collaboration.
  • Why now? Why did innovation-mania take hold in the last decade or so? One school of thought holds that corporations both rise and die faster than ever today, placing a premium on the speedy generation of ideas.
  • Other ideas entrepreneurs offer a “great man” theory, pointing to the enormous influence of Clayton M. Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor and an author of books including “The Innovator’s Dilemma”and “Innovation and the General Manager.”
  • Dev Patnaik of Jump has his own answer to the why-now question. He contends that advances in technology over the past three decades have gradually forced management to reconceive its role in the corporation, shifting its focus from processing data to something more esoteric.
  • “Suddenly it’s about something else. Suddenly it’s about leadership, creativity, vision. Those are the differentiating things, right?” Patnaik draws an analogy to painting, which for centuries was all about rendering reality as accurately as possible, until a new technology — photography — showed up, throwing all those brush-wielding artists into crisis.
  • Most idea entrepreneurs offer what could be described as Osborn deluxe. Govindarajan, the Dartmouth professor, presents companies with what he calls the three-box framework. In Box 1, he puts everything a company now does to manage and improve performance. Box 2 is labeled “selectively forgetting the past,” his way of urging clients to avoid fighting competitors and following trends that are no longer relevant. Box 3 is strategic thinking about the future. “Companies spend all of their time in Box 1, and think they are doing strategy,” he says. “But strategy is really about Box 2 and 3 — the challenge to create the future that will exist in 2020.” He recommends to clients what he calls the 30-30 rule: 30 percent of the people who make strategic decisions should be 30 years old or younger.
  • Katie Day on 20 Dec 10
     
    long article on creativity, innovation, and people who are dedicated to the process of coming up with ideas....
Keri-Lee Beasley

Ideas for Classroom Blogs - Google Docs - 0 views

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blogging blogs classroom ideas blog teachers

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 11 Oct 10
     
    I am looking for ideas for our K-6 teachers on what they can write about for their classroom blogs. This is NOT for student blogging ideas, but it is for teachers that have a blog they share with parents, students, and staff.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 11 Oct 10
     
    Excellent bank of ideas to share with teachers new to classroom blogging about what they could blog about.
Keri-Lee Beasley

5 back to school iPad activities - Erintegration - 0 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 13 Aug 15
     
    Some good ideas for getting to know your students using the iPad. I like the HaikuDeck idea, and the find someone who... idea.
Katie Day

What's the Big Idea? | LinkedIn - 1 views

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  • Katie Day on 16 Dec 12
     
    "What if you arrived at a holiday party with over 50 of the smartest and most accomplished people in business milling around, and each one tipped you off to the one concept they think will matter most in the New Year? This week we launch The Biggest Ideas of 2013, a collection of posts from the world's top thought leaders that's turning LinkedIn into a virtual version of that holiday party."
Katie Day

10 Personal Writing Ideas - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Katie Day on 09 Mar 11
     
    "Stuck for an idea? Use the suggestions below to spark personal writing with help from New York Times features."
Jeffrey Plaman

Ideas for Using Minecraft in the Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 11 Jan 13
     
    Great list of ideas for using Minecraft
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 11 Jan 13
     
    Ideas for Using Minecraft in the Classroom http://t.co/WsOTHS8f via @edutopia #gbl
Katie Day

Say Goodbye to Creativity Awards - Werner Reinartz and Peter Saffert - Harvard Business... - 0 views

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  • Katie Day on 28 Feb 13
     
    measuring creativity.... "A metric that we have applied is originally based on the famous Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT). We compared 437 ad campaigns from 90 leading brands in 10 different FMCG categories in Germany. Using an advertising creativity scale developed from communications researchers at Indiana University in 2007 we evaluated and indexed each campaign's creativity levels. Specifically, we measured five dimensions of advertising creativity: (1) originality (was the ad original, rare, surprising, unique?); (2) flexibility (does the ad link the product to different ideas, concepts, or subjects?); (3) elaboration (does the ad contain intricate or numerous details?); (4) synthesis (does the ad blend normally unrelated objects or ideas?); and (5) artistic value (does the ad excel visually, verbally, or graphically?). "
Katie Day

The Learning Virtues - NYTimes.com - David Brooks on book "Cultural Foundations of Lear... - 0 views

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  • Katie Day on 03 Mar 13
     
    "In the Western understanding, students come to school with levels of innate intelligence and curiosity. Teachers try to further arouse that curiosity in specific subjects. There's a lot of active learning - going on field trips, building things. There's great emphasis on questioning authority, critical inquiry and sharing ideas in classroom discussion. In the Chinese understanding, there's less emphasis on innate curiosity or even on specific subject matter. Instead, the learning process itself is the crucial thing. The idea is to perfect the learning virtues in order to become, ultimately, a sage, which is equally a moral and intellectual state. These virtues include: sincerity (an authentic commitment to the task) as well as diligence, perseverance, concentration and respect for teachers. "
Louise Phinney

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  • Louise Phinney on 20 Mar 13
     
    iRead is a group of teachers in Escondido Union School District dedicated to the idea that digital audio can be a powerful learning tool for all students. iRead will give you a chance to create meaningful, curriculum-centered audio projects with your students. Teachers are using digital audio tools (iPods, mics, Garageband, iTunes, Keynote, etc. and various accessories) to improve reading processes. Teachers meet on a monthly basis to exchange ideas and strategies. We started in 2006-07 by collecting data about fluency rates - this proved to be very promising.
Louise Phinney

A Guide to Involving Parents in Your Class Blog | Primary Tech - 2 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 10 Feb 13
     
    Some things for us to try with our infant blogs. I like this idea the best Virtual Volunteers: Linda Yollis has come up with the idea of calling on parents to be virtual volunteers on a roster basis. Rather than helping students in the classroom, they can assist online by replying to students and engaging in conversations.
Louise Phinney

PLN Starter for Elementary Teachers | It's All About Learning - 2 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 25 Jul 12
     
    To help our teachers build their Personal Learning Network... a good idea to bundle up a bunch of great blogs at various grade levels for them to get ideas and inspiration. Jennifer LaGarde (aka Librarygirl) made a similar tool you can find here... more specific to different grades.
Jeffrey Plaman

Teaching resources - Education, The University of York - 0 views

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 25 Nov 13
     
    "A diagnostic question (or task) is one which provides evidence of a learner's understanding of a specific idea. The pupil's response gives us reasonably clear evidence about whether he or she understands, or does not understand, this idea. Sometimes the question can also help us to diagnose what a pupil's difficulty is - why he or she is not giving the correct answer. If so, this may make it easier to respond effectively and help pupils move their understanding on."
Katie Day

Caught red-handed: IB boss plagiarising - News - TES Connect - 0 views

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  • Jeffrey Beard, the head of one of the world's most respected assessment organisations - the International Baccalaureate (IB) - has been caught red-handed passing off someone else's work as his own.The Geneva-based director general of the IB has been publicly named and shamed by an American academic institution where he made a speech that it has discovered "was not original work".Mr Beard gave a talk on "Education for a Better World" last month at the Chautauqua Institution in New York State.
  • It appears that Mr Beard broke one of the golden rules of cheating - if you're going to do it don't be too obvious. In using material from Sir Ken, he picked on a world-renowned US-based British educationalist who has had one of his talks viewed more than 1.5 million times on the internet."Mr Beard neglected to cite his source or reveal the quotations for what they were. Yesterday's speech was not original work," the statement continued.The IB's own guide for schools on academic honesty defines plagiarism as "the representation of the ideas or work of another person as the candidate's own".
  • This week an IB spokeswoman said: "On reflection, Mr Beard thinks that he could have been more explicit about the sources and authors that inspired him for the content of this speech."She said he had drawn from "a number of sources", including Sir Ken Robinson, but "it was never Mr Beard's intent to imply that the ideas were his alone"."If this had not been a speech, but a scholarly or academic paper, he would have made a complete list of all references available," she said.The Chautauqua Institution was not impressed and has withdrawn the speech from its website and bookshop. Its statement ends: "Mr Beard's behavior in this matter is not characteristic of the work done here at Chautauqua and violates the expectations you should have for that work. We acknowledge to you our genuine disappointment in this event."
  • Katie Day on 21 Sep 10
     
    The head of the IBO has been caught not attributing ideas in a speech which came from Sir Ken Robinson... and has been reprimanded.... Interesting example to show students.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Teaching Library | Discover teaching ideas and lesson resources linked to children's bo... - 2 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 04 Sep 11
     
    Teaching ideas and lesson resources linked to popular books. Lots of books we have in our library here...
Keri-Lee Beasley

Failing Forward: 21 Ideas To Use It In Your Classroom - 0 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 01 Mar 15
     
    "Failing Forward" is a relatively recent entry into our cultural lexicon-at least as far has headlines go anyway-that has utility for students and teachers. Popularized from the book of the same name, the idea behind failing forward is to see failing as a part of success rather than its opposite. Provided we keep moving and pushing and trying and reflecting, failure should, assuming we're thinking clearly, lead to progress, So rather than failing and falling back, we fail forward. Tidy little metaphor.
David Caleb

How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Research suggests that the most creative children are the least likely to become the teacher’s pet, and in response, many learn to keep their original ideas to themselves.
  • What holds them back is that they don’t learn to be original. They strive to earn the approval of their parents and the admiration of their teachers.
  • only a fraction of gifted children eventually become revolutionary adult creators,
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  • The parents of ordinary children had an average of six rules, like specific schedules for homework and bedtime. Parents of highly creative children had an average of fewer than one rule.
  • “Emphasis was placed on the development of one’s own ethical code.”
  • parents didn’t dream of raising superstar kids. They weren’t drill sergeants or slave drivers. They responded to the intrinsic motivation of their children. When their children showed interest and enthusiasm in a skill, the parents supported them.
  • A majority of the tennis stars remembered one thing about their first coaches: They made tennis enjoyable.
  • Research reveals that the more we practice, the more we become entrenched — trapped in familiar ways of thinking.
  • what motivates people to practice a skill for thousands of hours? The most reliable answer is passion — discovered through natural curiosity or nurtured through early enjoyable experiences with an activity or many activities.
  • In fashion, the most original collections come from directors who spend the most time working abroad.
  • winning a Nobel Prize is less about being a single-minded genius and more about being interested in many things.
  • Relative to typical scientists, Nobel Prize winners are 22 times more likely to perform as actors, dancers or magicians; 12 times more likely to write poetry, plays or novels; seven times more likely to dabble in arts and crafts; and twice as likely to play an instrument or compose music.
  • “Love is a better teacher than a sense of duty,” he said.
  • You can’t program a child to become creative. Try to engineer a certain kind of success, and the best you’ll get is an ambitious robot.
  • If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
  • David Caleb on 03 Feb 16
     
    "Research suggests that the most creative children are the least likely to become the teacher's pet, and in response, many learn to keep their original ideas to themselves." Gifted kids don't often produce something new but excel in the 
Jeffrey Plaman

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 10 May 13
     
    For centuries, becoming an "inventor" has been a hard gig to crack. Complexities relating to financing, engineering, distribution, and legalities have stood in the way of brilliant people executing on their great ideas. Since launching in 2009, Quirky has rapidly changed the way the world thinks about product development.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Apollo Ideas | Word as Image - 1 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 08 Mar 12
     
    Nice kinetic typography examples here. Not entirely suitable for students, but some very good ideas nonetheless
Adrienne Michetti

Blended Learning to Address the Five Moments of Need Infographic - e-Learning Infographics - 0 views

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  • Adrienne Michetti on 27 May 15
     
    Ideas for using technology for different types of learning, here called "moments of need." 
Keri-Lee Beasley

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » Twitter in the Classroom and Twitter Posters - 0 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 13 Mar 11
     
    Ideas from a consultant about using twitter in the classroom. Quite cool posters.
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