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How the Ivy League is Killing Innovation April 16, 2011How the Ivy League is Killing Innovation Here's a wonderful article, just published in Bloomberg Business Week that raises a very curious paradox -- why academics are teaching innovation. Authors G. "Process-driven cultures love process-driven experts. Need innovation? If you are a professor and find Maddock and Viton's article objectionable, speak up! If you are a high roller in a corporation looking for the "secret innovation sauce," I invite you to read their article before reaching out to academia for your next keynote speaker. Here's an alternative PhotoPhoto Posted by Mitch Ditkoff at April 16, 2011 07:11 PM Post a comment Thanks for signing in, . (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. You are not signed in.

le bonheur publicitaire est une chimere part 2 L'an 01 Play "On arrête tout et on réfléchit""On nous dit: Le bonheur c'est le progrès faites un pas en avant. Et c'est le progrès... mais ce n'est jamais le bonheur. Alors si on faisait un pas de côté! Un film de 1973 qui a réunis bon nombre d'acteurs très connus, de Coluche à Prévost en passant par Depardieu, Lermitte, Jugnot et bien d'autres. Il présente une société qui aurait rompu avec la logique de productivisme et le capitalisme, une société où les gens prennent leur vie en main, où ils décident de ce qui est bon pour eux, où ils refusent de se voir imposer un comportement et une morale par une pseudo élite... bref une société où les gens arrêtent d'être des spectateurs de leur vie. En ceci, L'an 01 est un film qui présente les idée libertaires, et montre à quoi pourrait ressembler une société anarchiste. Simplicité volontaire et décroissance Réflexion sur notre futur, sur notre façon de consommer.

Chicago Public Schools' Experiment With Common Core State Standards Sees Positive Result As a guinea pig in a nationwide experiment, Chicago's Philip D. Armour Elementary School is seeing drastic improvements in student performance. Even the most ardent critics of the nationwide Common Core Standards initiative can't dispute the school's strong student improvement: Armour's state standardized test scores have moved up 16 points, in a school where 98 percent of students are low-income and come from a high-crime neighborhood, PBS NewsHour reports. Illinois is one of 46 states that have adopted the Common Core State Standards, a set of academic benchmarks that raises the bar for teaching and learning across the country. The standards focus on teaching fewer subjects in greater depth, replacing a melange of educational expectations that vary wildly across districts and states. Despite Armour's success, teachers across Chicago remain concerned. But for now, teachers at Armour are doing what they do best: helping their students learn. Also on HuffPost:

HIJACKING: A new type of interaction with the advertisement De onde vêm as boas ideias para a inovação? - Bolsa Da cólera ao GPS, da Web a Gutenberg, as ideias inovadoras não surgem num momento "eureka!" mas de um conjunto de factores que Steven Johnson, autor de Where Good Ideas come from, exemplificou no recente XX Congresso das Comunicações. Johnson detectou um conjunto de padrões na emergência de ideias inovadoras, sendo o principal que "a sorte favorece as mentes conectadas" e que a intuição para algo novo surge nas formas mais bizarras. Nos anos 40 do século XIX, Londres atravessou um período de perturbação por causa da cólera e do triunfo da teoria do miasma: uma nuvem venenosa infectava os cidadãos pelo ar. Perante o rumor, o médico John Snow fez um mapa com a localização das mortes, falou com habitantes dessas zonas e - com a ajuda de Henry Whitehead, padre que passava as noites a beber cerveja e a falar com as pessoas (um "conector" com "inteligência social", salienta Johnson) - cruzou o mapa com as fontes de água.

OpenCurriculum: A K-12 Learning Content Hub Petit guide du détournement publicitaire Les enseignes de magasins, les néons et les publicités envahissent l’espace urbain. Le passant pressé, pris dans ses pensées ne semble même plus prêter attention à cette foison de couleurs qui anime la ville tout en la défigurant. Le publicitaire, face à cette indifférence, tente quant à lui de se démarquer, d’attirer le chaland avec de nouveaux discours et de nouveaux dispositifs souvent très consommateurs en énergie. Pris au cœur de cette lutte silencieuse, des groupes de militants d’un nouveau genre décident, dans l’illégalité, de détourner ces publicités et ces affichages afin de susciter un échange sur la place de la publicité dans nos environnements urbains. Entre art urbain, initiatives potaches ou écologistes, vous trouverez ci-dessous un petit guide d’expériences de détournement publicitaire. Le détournement au cutter Le détournement publicitaire cherche d’abord à détourner le message original de la publicité pour le mettre en dérision. Poster Boy The Decapitator Pop Down Project

Where do ideas come from? Where do ideas come from? Ideas don't come from watching televisionIdeas sometimes come from listening to a lectureIdeas often come while reading a bookGood ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of themIdeas hate conference rooms, particularly conference rooms where there is a history of criticism, personal attacks or boredomIdeas occur when dissimilar universes collideIdeas often strive to meet expectations. If people expect them to appear, they doIdeas fear experts, but they adore beginner's mind. Khan Academy Bubble project 15 Cool Ways To Boost Your Creativity Feeling burnt out or lacking creative ideas? This article is especially for all you writers, artists, business owners or anyone looking for some new ways to get their creativity flowing. Here are 15 ways to give your creativity a jump start: Write Your Ideas Down Get into the habit of writing your ideas down as soon as you get them. When they are written down you don’t have to worry about remembering them and this allows more room for new ideas to form in your mind. Relax Good ideas and creativity usually do not appear under stress. Take a walk on the beach, take a nap, go and play some sport or do whatever it is that relaxes you so that your brain can be more creative when you get back to work. Have No Expectations Similar to living with no stress, but specifically no stress from the outcome. When you create with love and passion and no expectation of the outcome, the chances are much greater that you will create something remarkable! You are enough and you are creative. Read Meditate Exercise

Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters | Journal of the mental environment Pluma electri*k (mis)appropriation of flash codes CRIATIVIDADE-COMPETITIVIDADE-VITALIDADE-URBANA-UMA-CULTURA-GOVERNANÇA-CIDADE-CRIATIVA Este projecto visa aumentar o conhecimento e construir linhas estratégicas de actuação sobre os quadros, as dinâmicas e os mecanismos de governança susceptíveis de promover e enraizar a vitalização urbana, a criatividade e a competitividade das cidades. Partindo da discussão acerca da “cidade criativa”, que tem marcado a análise académica e alguma actuação pública específica em espaço urbano nos últimos anos, este projecto ambiciona explorar e analisar criticamente as relações entre as diferentes escalas de actuação pública, as lógicas de internacionalização e as dinâmicas urbanas/metropolitanas. O projecto implica: a) o desenvolvimento de uma abordagem conceptual que permita analisar os mecanismos de governança no desenvolvimento urbano e entender as recentes dinâmicas de sucesso em áreas urbanas, particularmente as baseadas na criatividade; Informações e inscrições: dinamia@iscte.pt Programa 9.00 | Acolhimento dos participantes 9.30 | Abertura Luísa Lima Directora da ECSH do ISCTE-IUL Debate