• Design Thinking Comes of Age

  HT @JimCollinsTA

  tags: design thinking #MustRead innovation

• The Rise Of The Intrapreneur | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

  HT Pam Ambler

  tags: innovation intrapreneur #MustRead MVIFI

  • But like a growing number of employees called intrapreneurs, he chose to start something new in his existing company and innovate from within.
  • This isn’t employees trying to do better at their existing jobs or move up the ladder; this is them wanting to create something new that doesn’t currently exist.
  • “We would create these safe spaces for intrapreneurs to come together and share their stories about working in the corporate world because they are going against the grain so often.”
  • millennials want things companies aren’t currently giving them: autonomy, creativity, and meaning. But if companies give their talent something to focus on, projects to own, they will stay and help their company move forward.
  • “You have to reprogram these goliath organizations and make their cultures be more future friendly—that’s the role of the intrapreneurs.”
  • The future belongs to individuals and companies who embrace the entrepreneurial spirit, whether that is inside or outside a company
  • fundamental question is what is going to have people get motivated and inspired to be in their highest contribution. What is going to get you fired up to do what you came here to do? And I think the more that all of us are asking those questions and engaging in those opportunities, the better we are all going to be.”

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• The No. 1 Predictor Of Career Success According To Network Science — Life Learning — Medium

  tags: Networking networks #MustRead curiosity learning success

• 7 Questions to End Your Week With

  What if this were regular “homework” and we significantly reduced the traditional types of school homework? How might learning be enhanced in the short and long runs?

  tags: reflection Questions inquiry learning homework #MustRead

• Simple Rules: An Important Step in School Transformation? | The Future of K-12 Education

  tags: simple rules transformation School Change #MustRead

• Micro-Credentialing for Teachers: Bite sized professional development opportunities! | Blackbaud K-12 Private Schools

  HT @ChipHouston1976

  tags: Badges microcredentialing professional development assessment dashboards #MustRead

  • often credentials are earned mostly by the demonstration of proficiency, not completion.

• Why I Got Rid of My Teacher’s Desk — The Synapse — Medium

  A nice thought and action provoker.

  tags: learning environment School Change #MustRead

• Preflight

  Like consultivations in Mount Vernon Innovation Diploma!

  tags: consultivation real-world design thinking preflight #MustRead innovation

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• Gold Standard PBL: Essential Project Design Elements | Blog | Project Based Learning | BIE

  tags: PBL project based learning goldstandardPBL BIE #MustRead

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• Design Thinking: A Unified Framework For Innovation

  tags: design thinking innovation #MustRead #CohortRead

• “Design Thinking” in Harvard Business Review at IDEO | IDEO

  tags: design thinking #MustRead #CohortRead

• The Marriage of Formal & Informal Learning

  tags: assessment Badges microcredentialing LRS #MustRead Learning learning analytics dashboards

  • important
     that integration of formal and informal learning have champions
  • Web 2.0 technology is a key enabler for this marriage
  • Technological tools and leadership support alone will not be enough to make the marriage of informal and formal learning work. The shared values, beliefs, mental models, habits, and behaviors of the workforce in an organization – its culture is key.
  • How do people feel about knowledge – is it power to be hoarded, or a gift to be shared?
  • The two key advantages of informal learning are that it happens at the point of need
     and what is learned is usually applied right away.
  • In the cooperative model, the learning and development group can shift from being the producer of content to being the guide, initiator, facilitator, and coach.
  • Based on alignment with agreed upon organizational and learning goals, the learner takes responsibility for his or her own learning – with the support and guidance of the organization.
  • People who are not used to working in a learning organization culture, where cooperative learning within communities of practice is the norm, need the knowhow and a new mindset regarding learning to cooperatively in the workplace.
  • The positive is that this incidental learning doesn’t take people away from the work. The disadvantage is that when they are so caught up in doing, people often miss an important ingredient for learning: reflection.
  • The combination of structured and incidental learning can give us intentional learning.
  • David Kolb, wrote about a model of experiential learning consisting of the following cycle: action, observation, reflection, concept formation, and back to action.
  • The key to solidifying this learning is reflection.
  • Morgan McCall and George Hollenbeck asked managers to stop once a week and answer just two simple questions, “What did you do last week?” and “What did you learn from it?” They found that this simple process of reflection enabled the managers learn from their experiences and to change the way they managed.
  • integration of formal and informal learning can create a virtuous cycle that leads not only to increased productivity but to the real innovation that is necessary for long term success in a dynamic marketplace.

• From the Department of Don’t Get Ready, Get Started | metacool

  tags: innovation biastowardaction #MustRead designthinking #CohortRead

• Ruminating on design principles for new ventures | metacool

  Principles for Innovation along right margin of blog are all links to posts about innovating. 

  tags: design principles innovation ventures #MustRead

• The Top Three Things I Learned from Teaching Design Students | open change

  tags: design design thinking norms #MustRead #CohortRead

• Inviting the Public Back to Public Education | ThinkThankThunk

  tags: real-world realworldlearning #iDiploma #synergy #MustRead

• Authenticity in assessment, (re-)defined and explained | Granted, and…

  tags: authenticassessment wiggins #MustRead idiploma

• How Are Universities Grooming the Next Great Innovators? | Innovation | Smithsonian

  By offering courses on innovation, colleges aren’t just adding another subject matter—they are fundamentally shifting how they approach the path that students can take in school and the way they confront questions and problems after graduation.

  tags: universities innovation higher ed college entrepreneurship designthinking #MustRead

  • There is a growing consensus that higher education, moving forward, should be a flexible experience that can be customized in both subject matter and structure to fit individual interests and learning styles.
  • More than 900 colleges and universities now afford students the opportunity to create their own majors, tailoring a field of study to fit their specific interests.
  • “Actually trying something is very different from learning about it in theory,”
  • Companies recruiting across industries specifically seek out students who have taken design-thinking courses.

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