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How to Find and Amplify Creativity – Bruce Nussbaum – Harvard Business Review
“Creative competence is like a sport. You can train for it and increase the capacities of yourself and your organization.”
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SXSW: Forget Stories. Your Brand Needs a Narrative. | Beyond PR
“Narratives differ from stories in two important ways, according to Hagel. First, narratives don’t have an end. They are open ended, and the resolution is yet to be determined. Secondly, narratives invite participation. The inherent message isn’t “Listen” — it’s “Join.””
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To Become More Adaptable, Take a Lesson from Biology – Rafe Sagarin – Harvard Business Review
“All of Earth’s successful organisms have thrived without analyzing past crises or trying to predict the next one. They haven’t held “planning exercises” or created “predictive frameworks.” Instead, they’ve adapted. Adaptability is the power to detect and respond to change in the world, no matter how surprising or inconvenient it may be.”
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Measuring Creativity: We Have the Technology – Werner Reinartz – Harvard Business Review
“Clearly, if you’re going to be creative, you need to apply divergent thinking. It would seem, to be a no-brainer. But the numbers show that remarkably few people engage in divergent thinking.”
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It’s Time for Tenure to Lose Tenure – James C. Wetherbe – Harvard Business Review
“To make such changes possible, colleges need to make use of the same tools used in the business world such as employment contracts instead of jobs for life, process innovation, better allocation of resources, and more careful scrutiny of how research gets funded. Every college’s business school has taught how restrictive work rules and high labor costs for many years made American automotive, electronics, and other industries less competitive. Now universities need to adopt their own teachings and end tenure.”
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Educational Leadership:Creativity Now!:The Case for Curiosity
“The irony is that children are born with an overpowering need to know. They want to know what every object feels and looks like and what will happen when they attempt to do different things with that object. They want to know why people behave the way they do. This voracious appetite for knowledge defines us as a species. And it doesn’t evaporate when babies become toddlers. Every preschool teacher knows that children between the ages of 18 months and 5 years are insatiable for information. Their curiosity drives much of their learning—through asking questions, watching what others do, listening to what adults say, and tinkering with the world around them. But somehow the incessant curiosity that leads to so much knowledge during the first five years of life dwindles as children go to school.”
(HT @centerteach)
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Don’t Assess the Project: Thoughts on Assessing Project-Based Learning | 21k12
Jonathan Martin offers a fabulous look at PBL and assessment. There is much great soil here for learning, and there is incredible fodder for discussion and development. I don’t agree with everything, but Jonathan has given my much to expand my own knowledge and thinking.
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Designing Integrated Curriculum – YouTube
Great 6 minute “documentary” about how a team of subject-area teachers work to design interdisciplinary projects, with real-world elements and applications.
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Rob Fields: How Brands Can Provide Cultural Leadership – PSFK
“My interest is this: How can brands achieve their business goals by leading and influencing the direction of our collective sensibilities and our evolving understanding of how we make meaning of our lives?”
Now, re-read, but replace “brands” with “schools,” and maybe strike “business.”
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The Professors’ Big Stage – NYTimes.com
“Institutions of higher learning must move, as the historian Walter Russell Mead puts it, from a model of “time served” to a model of “stuff learned.” Because increasingly the world does not care what you know. Everything is on Google. The world only cares, and will only pay for, what you can do with what you know.”
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Five Ways Free Online Classes Will Change College, or Not | LinkedIn
“Because MOOCs are attracting so much attention and hype, they are often conflated as being the silver-bullet solution to all that ails higher education. They’re not. But that doesn’t mean they’ll be yesterday’s news by this time next year. Just like online shopping didn’t put brick-and-mortar stores out of business, online education can co-exist along traditional residential campuses. Shoppers need and like both forms of purchasing and college students like both forms of course delivery when they offer flexibility. Here are five ways MOOCs will and will not change higher ed in the coming years:”
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“Let Us Plant Dates:” Our Role & Our Moment in Schools | chris.thinnes.me
“So there we were, having our umpteenth private and personal conversation about what school could be like, and what role we could plan in it (“We could start a ______;” “We could try a ______;” “We should talk to _____”), painting together on a Philadelphia streetcorner a picture of the world we want to live in, and the schools we want to help create. At some level it was deeply moving; at some level, too, it was of no more consequence to education than Fantasy Football is to the sport. And we spent some time exploring our relationship between ‘that’ world, and ‘this’ one.”
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