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Developmentalism: Collaboration for Development

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Skills of Success (SOS) Personal Development. Human Development. Visual thinking. Visual thinking, also called visual/spatial learning, picture thinking, or right brained learning, is the phenomenon of thinking through visual processing.

Visual thinking

Visual thinking has been described as seeing words as a series of pictures. [citation needed] It is common in approximately 60%–65% of the general population. "Real picture thinkers", those persons who use visual thinking almost to the exclusion of other kinds of thinking, make up a smaller percentage of the population. Research by child development theorist Linda Kreger Silverman suggests that less than 30% of the population strongly uses visual/spatial thinking, another 45% uses both visual/spatial thinking and thinking in the form of words, and 25% thinks exclusively in words.

Max-Neef Model of Human-Scale Development. Kath Fisher: "Manfred Max-Neef is a Chilean economist who has worked for many years with the problem of development in the Third World, articulating the inappropriateness of conventional models of development, that have lead to increasing poverty, massive debt and ecological disaster for many Third World communities. Nonviolent Communication Part 1 Marshall Rosenberg.

Top Ten Group Work Strategies. If I am continually vexed by any one question in education it is ‘how can we enhance student motivation?

Top Ten Group Work Strategies

Collaborative learning - Research summaries. 'If individualistic learning dominates your classroom, your students will behave accordingly, even if you put them temporarily into cooperative groups.' Johnson, Johnson and Holubec (ASCD 1994) Teachers need to control less In collaborative learning the role of the teacher changes.

Collaborative learning - Research summaries

Although pupils become the crew rather than the passengers, the teacher still remains the pilot, setting the classroom on course and ensuring that the pupils work and learn together effectively. Paradoxically, the less controlling the teacher, the better the students will perform. The goals are different Helping young people to work and learn well together becomes an important aim in itself. To create a learning communityto improve our knowledge togetherto help each other learnto learn how to learn together. Students need to be taught new skills The social skills for effective collaborative working must be taught to students, just as professionally and precisely as academic skills. Virtual Worlds Enabling Distributed Collaboration. Virtual Worlds Enabling Distributed Collaboration Marko Hakonen, Petra M.

Virtual Worlds Enabling Distributed Collaboration

Bosch-Sijtsema Abstract Despite the growing prevalence of distributed work as an organizational form, the virtual world literature has largely neglected to consider the potentials of this new media in distributed collaboration. How Successful Virtual Teams Collaborate - Keith Ferrazzi. By Keith Ferrazzi | 12:00 PM October 24, 2012 I have worked on many teams in which we dutifully did our jobs, and the group fulfilled its objectives.

How Successful Virtual Teams Collaborate - Keith Ferrazzi

And then I have worked on other teams in which everyone energetically collaborated with one another, and the results were spectacular. Not only did we surpass our goals, we also thoroughly enjoyed and benefited from that process as individuals. In other words, there’s a world of difference between merely working together and truly collaborating with one another. Collaborative activity is the “secret sauce” that enables teams to come up with innovative new products or creative, buzz-worthy marketing campaigns. Achieving true collaboration — in which the whole is definitely more than the mere sum of the individual parts — is difficult in any environment.

Adjust for size. Don’t be afraid of social media. Play games. Train for collaboration. Have role clarity but task uncertainty. Main Page - Handbook of Collective Intelligence. Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration. Michel Bauwens: Four Scenarios for the Collaborative Economy.

Why Learning Through Social Networks Is The Future. By Paul Moss, edmerger.com Students Need Professional Learning Networks, Too.

Why Learning Through Social Networks Is The Future

New Cooperative Development. B.

New Cooperative Development

Henehan. Authors: Brian Henehan, Cornell University, bmh5@cornell.edu, and Bruce Anderson, Cornell University Reviewers: Gerald White and Brent Gloy, Cornell University Summary: There is increased interest in economic alternatives as individuals try to adopt needed technology and compete in today's dynamic global markets. The cooperative organizational structure may offer a viable alternative. Introduction to New Cooperative Development The social and economic history of the world records innumerable cases of individuals on all continents utilizing collective action to address common social and economic problems by forming cooperatives. Collaborative business groups can be organized in a variety of ways, linking companies together in a larger, overarching relationship for a common purpose. While such membership organizations are known by a variety of names, in general they may be logically classified as networks, alliances or cooperatives.

Onora O'Neill: What we don't understand about trust. Virtual Collaboration: The Skills Needed to Collaborate in a Virtual Environment. Keywords: Virtual collaboration, virtual collaboration skills, virtual collaboration barriers.

Virtual Collaboration: The Skills Needed to Collaborate in a Virtual Environment

Introduction. Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power. Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration. Rules of the Collaboratory Game. If you’re a researcher studying schizophrenia, you can tap marvelous new tools such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography.

Rules of the Collaboratory Game

You can combine data from these devices for astonishingly powerful new views of how the brain works. What you can’t do is easily integrate data gathered by researchers outside your group. Enter the Biomedical Informatics Research Network, or BIRN. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, BIRN is a virtual collaboration project for biomedical big science. Let's Stop Confusing Cooperation and Teamwork with Collaboration. Often the words collaboration, coordination, and cooperation are used to describe effective teamwork.

Let's Stop Confusing Cooperation and Teamwork with Collaboration

But they are not the same, and when we use these words interchangeably, we dilute their meaning and diminish the potential for creating powerful, collaborative workplaces. Collaboration has been a big word in the news lately, most recently due to Marissa Mayer’s explanation of her decision to bring Yahoo employees back to the office: “To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side.”