Today’s list discusses how to move beyond the failures of U.S. education and transform our schools, communities, and families into centers of knowledge production and innovation. Schools of the agricultural and industrial ages produced graduates suitable for their economies and societies. Change is accelerating, and students that are being prepared for old society jobs cannot [...]
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Top ten list #8: Ways to transform schools into centers of knowledge production and innovation
6/27/2007
Top ten list #5: Is China poised to leapfrog the world in the knowledge economy?
6/22/2007
It’s not enough to question if China is on the verge of leapfrogging the world in education. Is China poised to leapfrog the world in the knowledge economy, or are they simply catching up? Perhaps the knowledge economy isn’t what matters, but the emerging innovation economy does. For the time being, however, consider China’s advances [...]
Using tech to teach the same old garbage
5/5/2007
Folks, when you use new technologies to teach the same old garbage, you’re not going to get the results that you want. The NY Times started to touch on this in their article, Seeing no progress, some schools drop laptops: …the Liverpool Central School District, just outside Syracuse, has decided to phase out laptops starting [...]
Learning to be creative in education
4/10/2007
This was just noted over at e-rgonomic: At last year’s TED conference, Sir Ken Robinson made his case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it: View This Video on Google Robinson is author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, and a thought leader on injecting innovation and [...]
China’s great leapfrog forward?
4/2/2007
Yesterday’s New York Times Sunday Magazine had an article on educational reform in China. Whereas the United States is moving toward an educational model that displays characteristics of traditional Chinese education (especially an emphasis on testing), the Chinese are moving toward an educational model that is, in their view, more Western. This means integrating liberal [...]
Gallup’s four drivers of innovation
1/22/2007
The Gallup Management Journal recently published an article on what drives innovation in organizations. Shelley Mika disentangles innovation from creativity and identifies four driving principles of innovation, based on discussions with key thinkers and leaders. All four principles are focused on people: “Finding and fostering talent” — people settle where their talent is similar to [...]
A reflection on the future of education from the blogosphere
11/1/2006
“hschmidt07” reflects on Dewey and wonders: [...] how children should be educated in an unpredictable world, in an unending arena of expansion known as the age of information. The advent of this new face of society has evolving needs calling for many types of leadership. This is where I strongly agree with Dewey’s poignant statement [...]
BusinessWeek: What innovation advantage?
1/19/2006
Roger Martin writes that “Chinese and Indian companies aren’t leaving design to the North Americans”: “There is a romantic notion in North American business that its future lies in design and innovation, while India and China will be the home of less skilled, lower-paying operations churning out the products and services the U.S. comes up [...]
NY Times: “Computers as authors? Literary luddites unite!”
11/23/2004
Article Link: Computers as authors? Literary luddites unite! (free registration required) The New York Times reports that to write novels, computers don’t need writers anymore. Selmer Bringsjord at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and David A. Ferrucci at IBM created “Brutus.1” an artificial intelligence program that simulates literary creativity. Read one of Brutus.1′s stories.
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