What's the Big Idea? (Brian Greene), 2008. Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together. The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice | People.
Sugata Mitra. The Future Of College: Forget Lectures And Let The Students Lead. "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and forgotten the gift. " -- Albert Einstein In human-centered design observing how users modify a tool so that it takes on a different function or better addresses a need can be the basis for innovation.
As we strive to design new learning systems, the same idea applies: We can also look at the learners? Dynamic ability to self-organize and adapt institutional learning. Higher education is approaching a tipping point that will necessitate massive change. Tuition is climbing impossibly high, while academic content maintains a static level of relevancy and applicability to the world beyond campus. Higher education is nearing a tipping point that will require massive change. Nearly all emerging patterns for learning involve having students attempt to solve real-world problems. We can't look to top-down dictation to drive societal change.
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Cuatro estrategias para la innovación en educación. James Nottingham. Alimentación. What Google’s Cafeterias Can Teach Us About School Lunches. Fifty years ago, a cheap lunch ladled onto a tray was a decent enough perk at premier American companies, such as Ford or Eastman Kodak. Today, that wouldn’t do in Silicon Valley, where in-house “cafés” have become a microcosm of modern cookery: a dedicated staff of bakers at Cisco, for example, or an Indian chef at eBay preparing curries spiced by decades of experience. It’s tempting to conclude that American firms have simply gotten richer, as have blue-chip workers. But this shift from an industrial approach towards food, in favor of one that’s more handcrafted, illustrates how American ideals about labor have changed—and also, how institutional food went haywire in the bargain.
“Food service used to be purely about workplace productivity,” says Fedele Bauccio, the founder of Bon Appétit Management, a company that quietly staffs many of Silicon Valley’s swankiest corporate cafeterias, including eBay, Oracle, and Yahoo! , and over 200 universities. [Illustrations by Peter Oumanski.] Ann Cooper talks school lunches.
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