If intentional collaboration is the productive exchange of big ideas, then philosophy is an important foundation. From Socrates to Aristotle to Kant to Kuhn to Senge (and a host of others in between) there is a rich heritage of thought on the pursuit of understanding, with a host of cognitive models to help us work [...]
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Parent Engagement: Exploring Key Roles in the K12 Ecosystem
Posted in change, collaboration, ecosystem, education, tagged bureaucracy, change, community, culture, ecosystem, edreform, edu, education, innovation, linkedin on January 3, 2011 | 28 Comments »
From my experience, parents want their kids to have a great education, and most are willing to pitch in. On a good day, it might mean helping them study for a killer algebra test. On a bad day, it’s a more thankless task: helping them reevaluate priorities, prying fingers from the high tech keypads, smartphones [...]
Catalysts for Social Change: Tapping Christensen’s Insights on Public Education
Posted in change, ecosystem, education, innovation, paradigm, tagged change, Christensen, education, innovation, paradigm, reform on October 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Thought Leaders, by definition, play a valuable role in helping to shape our perspectives. It’s not that they have all the answers. But they can serve as a catalyst for new thinking. The very best ones will challenge our world view, reframing our old paradigms and giving us new tools to attack long-standing problems. As [...]
ECOSYS on Social Reform: the Road Ahead
Posted in ecosystem, education, tagged ARRA, change, collaboration, culture, ecosystem, edreform, edu, education, innovation, learning, opengov, paradigm, RTTT on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As you’ll see in this thread, a group of self-organizing innovators has put quality thought on how public collaboration can help get at the core of complex social issues. So far, we’ve been focused on framing challenges in Public Education. The hurdles are formidable, so we’re focusing on a few specific areas, to build awareness and [...]
What’s Next at ECOSYS?
Posted in ecosystem, education, tagged ARRA, collaboration, ecosystem, edreform, edu, education, process, RTTT on October 13, 2009 | 8 Comments »
[Overview. Since August, the ECOSYS public collaboration team has been developing an approach to frame problems and solutions in social ecosystems like Education (#EDU) and Healthcare (#HCR). Prior posts in this thread introduced the ECOSYS framework describing the building blocks of our process model.] On MON 11/2 we started framing our EDU Issues. Progress to date: [...]
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