Student Voices on School Engagement and/or Lack Thereof

High School Survey of Student Engagement (HSSSE Report)
http://ceep.indiana.edu/hssse/images/HSSSE_2010_Report.pdf

Simply: Design Thinking "Begins with the End in Mind" (Socratic, Student-Centric, Teamed, Project-Based Learning Studios, Through Playful Discovery Create Their Own Artful Meaning Making ALSO KNOWN AS FUN! )

Truth, TRUST, Deeds, RISK, DEDICATION to WORKS in PROGRESS, INNOVATION / DISCOVERY, SHOW ME DON"T TELL ME!

Edutopia's Milton Chen (Author: Eduction Nation)

GEOGRAPHY of INNOVATION

CHANGE by DESIGN (Tim Brown)

Search inside this book: http://www.amazon.com/Change-Design-Transforms-Organizations-Innovation/dp/0061766089#reader_0061766089

Video: Design Thinking


Video: MINDMAPPING

Tim Brown on Change By Design from IDEO on Vimeo.

Innocentive Economist Conference September 2010 (21st Century DESIGN Insights)

About the event

Today, humanity is on track to advance mentally, physically and economically more than ever before. But there are still serious challenges ahead. For instance, how do we educate billions of new people in the coming decades—and manage their successful entry into the global economy—in an age of high unemployment and aging demographics? It is this kind of global challenge that can only be resolved by bringing together the smartest minds from government, academia and business—including education, human resources, healthcare, design, policy, science and technology—to debate tough issues and collaborate on practical solutions. With a new workforce that will be unlike any ever seen—a generation of young workers demanding entirely new work environments, and an aging population that requires heavy resources—the nature of work and talent development must evolve dramatically. The Ideas Economy: Human Potential event is an opportunity to understand these important issues from every perspective—and meet the leaders who can help optimise human potential, for individuals, companies, and society at large in the decades to come.

Venue

Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers
23rd Street and the Hudson River
New York, NY 10011


Programme

Download programme (pdf).

Day One — Wednesday, September 15th 2010


Act I


Top down: The rules of the game

8.00 am Registration and refreshments

9.00 am


Welcome and introduction

Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Correspondent, The Economist

9.30 am


Is demography destiny?

An exploration into the grand challenges of worldwide population

Richard Florida, Author, The Rise of the Creative Class

10.00 am


The new global dream

An investigation into the systems and structures needed to respond to the population explosion

Moderator: Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Correspondent, The Economist
Jim Clifton, Chief Executive Officer, Gallup
Joel Kotkin, Author, The Next Hundred Million

10.45 am


9 minutes with Edmund Phelps, Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University

11.00 am Morning break

11.30 am


The rules of human potential

What are the rules that enable human flourishing?
The geography and politics of human potential
How can education propel positive rule-making?

Moderator: Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor and Schumpeter Columnist, The Economist
David Brooks, Columnist, The New York Times
Paul Romer, Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

12.15 pm
9 minutes with June Arunga, Founder, Open Quest Media

12.25 pm
Lunch
Interviewer: Tom Standage, Digital Editor, The Economist
Scott Cook, Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Intuit

2.00 pm
Intellectual diversity in an open world

How open innovation is changing the way we work
Global perspectives on managing a global workforce
The state of the talent war

Moderator: Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor and Schumpeter Columnist, The Economist
Massimo d’Amore, Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo Beverages Americas
Zabeen Hirji, Chief Human Resources Officer, RBC
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Chief Executive Officer, 20-first

2.45 pm


9 minutes with Matthew Bishop, US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief, The Economist

3.00 pm


The great brain race

What are the next best higher education models?
Training multidisciplinary leaders of tomorrow
The challenges and opportunities of the global campus

Introduction: Ben Wildavsky, Senior Fellow, Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Moderator: Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor and Schumpeter Columnist, The Economist
Jordi Canals, Dean, IESE Business School
John Sexton, President, New York University
Shirley Tilghman, President, Princeton University
Jeff Lehman, Chancellor, Peking University School of Transnational Law

3.45 pm 9 minutes with Rob Carlson, Principal, Biodesic, Author, "Biology is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life"
3.55 pm A brief musical interlude with Evelyn Troester, Columbia University

4.15 pm


Afternoon break and Human potential un-conference (breakouts)

• Redesigning corporate cultures
• Twenty-first century movements

Act II


Bottom up: Power to the people

5.30 pm


9 minutes with Paul Bloom, Psychologist, Yale University

5.45 pm

A history of violence
Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
6.15 pm


Concluding remarks

Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Correspondent, The Economist

6.30 pm


Cocktail reception

8.00 pm


End of day one






Day Two — Thursday, September 16th 2010

8.00 am


"The Global Company of the Future" breakfast with the Economist Intelligence Unit and SHRM

9.00 am


Opening remarks

9.15 am


Building lifelong innovators - in five easy steps

Inspiring innovation at every stage of life

Moderator: Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Correspondent, The Economist
Sohrab Vossoughi, Founder and President, Ziba Design
Susan Peters, Vice President, Executive Development and Chief Learning Officer, GE
Vivek Wadhwa, Visiting Scholar, University of California at Berkeley
Amy Kaslow, Senior Fellow, Council on Competitiveness


10.00 am 3 minutes with Georgia Everse, Partner, genesis

10.05 am


The twenty-first century school

Global education best practices
Free market solutions to education
The testing dilemma
Can online learning transform our schools?

Interviewer: Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor and Schumpeter Columnist, The Economist
Joel I Klein, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education
Sir Ken Robinson, Author, The Element

10.35 am


3 minutes with Alan Tripp, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, InsideTrack

10.40 am 9 minutes with William Julius Wilson, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

10.50 am The Economist-InnoCentive Challenge Interview: Designing the 21st Century Cyber School

11.20 am


Networking break

11.50 am 9 minutes with John Maeda, President, Rhode Island School of Design
12.00 pm


Mini-debate: The nature of learning

Moderator: Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor and Schumpeter Columnist, The Economist
Eva Moskowitz, Chief Executive Officer, Success Charter Network
Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education, New York University

12.15 pm


9 minutes with Jan Chipchase, Executive Creative Director of Global Insights, frog design

Act III The way forward: Management for the twenty-first century

12.25 pm


3 minutes with John Hagel, Co-Chairman, Deloitte LLP Center for the Edge

12.30 pm
9 minutes with Alan Gershenfeld, Founder and President, E-Line Media

12.40 pm


Gen why: Social media and the convergence of work and life

Designing for technology natives
Is social media anti-social
Do video games make us more creative?
Moderator: Tom Standage, Digital Editor, The Economist
Neil Howe, President, LifeCourse Associates
Tammy Erickson, Author, “What’s Next, Gen X?”
Linda Stone, Writer and Generalist, LindaStone.net
Colleen Fahey Rush, Executive Vice President of Strategic Insights and Research, MTV
Alexandra Suich, Finance Correspondent, New York, The Economist

1.25 pm


Lunch
The modern workforce
Interviewer: Matthew Bishop, U.S. Business Editor, The Economist
Dr. Jim Goodnight, Chief Executive Officer, SAS

3.00 pm 9 minutes with Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Founding President and Chairman, Center for Work Life Policy

3.10 pm
9 minutes with Steven W. Casteel, Senior Vice President, Raphael Group

3.20 pm
Case studies: Making human-centered organisations

Should employees change for the sake of change?
The rise of the flat company
What is human-centered design?
Moderator: Michael Beer, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School
Doug Conant, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company CristóbalConde, President and Chief Executive Officer, SunGard

4.00 pm


Afternoon break

4.30 pm


6 minutes with Don Eckenfelder, Chief Executive Officer, Social Operating Systems Ltd and Douglas Nagan, President, Nagan Research Group

4.40 pm

9 minutes with Bridget Van Kralingen, General Manager, IBM North America
4.50 pm


An Economist debate on motivation
Using traditional debate rules, a proposition is set forth and each team of
expert speakers – one proposing the motion and one against – will advance their position. A straw poll will be taken ahead of the debate and again at the end. The moderator will declare the winner live.

The proposition: Purpose is more effective a motivator for workers than profit

Moderator: Tom Standage, Digital Editor, The Economist
Pro: Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics, Duke University
Pro: Clay Shirky, Author, "Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age"
Con: Yaron Brook, President, The Ayn Rand Institute

5.50 pm


9 minutes with Robert Fabricant, Vice President, Creative, frog design

6.00 pm Closing remarks

6.30 pm End of event

TECHONOMY!

Techonony Conference (Nicholas Negroponte "Making Kids the Agents of Change")

Begin with the End in Mind....Simplicity.

I asked for wonder,....

"Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me." — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Techonomy Conference (Bill Gates on the FUTURE of Education)

Place-based Education

August 20th, 2010 by Jesse Moyer

Earlier this month at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, Bill Gates said that students going to college campuses to get an education will be a thing of the past, “Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world, it will be better than any single university.”  He was also quick to point out that the same will not be true K-12 institutions.

While I think there is a much to be learned from the residential experience of college, I think I actually learned more through my involvement on campus and experiences outside of the classroom than I did from my professors, I also believe the cost alone will make a formal college education prohibitive for many Americans.  But that is a blog post for another place and time.

What I question is why K-12 institutions must remain solely place-based institutions.  With the emergence of different kinds of Learning Agents, as outlined in the 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning, why do students need to spend the entire, or even a majority of the, day in school in order to obtain the education they are interested in?

If a student was interested in the specifics of running a bakery or the art of woodworking, why couldn’t he or she contact a Community Intelligence Cartographerto connect with someone in their own community working in that field?  Why couldn’t a student look to their Learning Journey Mentor for information about opportunities beyond school walls that will augment and/or enhance the education they receive within their schools?

While I am beginning to think place-based schools will always have a purpose to serve, for socialization if nothing else, I don’t believe students should be confined to the four walls of a school house anymore than a college student should be confined by the boarders of their campus.

CONGRATULATIONS! (Looking Forward to More Knot-Tying "possibilities-thinking")

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VISIONING MEETING (To Be Determined)

WELCOME!

Get out and play on Harsens Island!
Harsens Island Bluegrass Festival slated for Mid August

On Harsens Island they'll be celebrating summer old school -- literally.

 

The playground of the historic former two-room Harsens Island Schoolhouse will come alive with the sounds of traditional and contemporary bluegrass music and the aroma of smoky barbecue on Sunday, Aug. 15  when the island hosts its first-ever Harsens Island Bluegrass Festival.

 

The Harsens Island Bluegrass Festival will play out at the Schoolhouse Grille, 2669 Columbine on Harsens Island from noon to 9 p.m. Tickets are $20, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Harsens Island Lions Club Family Emergency Fund. (See box below for ticket sales locations). Traveling to Harsens Island, which is about an hour from Detroit and many other Metro Detroit and Port Huron area cities, includes a $7 ferry ride (in your car!) on the Champion Auto Ferry.  

 

For festival producer Kate Hart, the event on the Lake Saint Clair island is about hearkening back to simpler times when families took leisurely Sunday drives, enjoyed picnics and barbecues and listened to roots music in a beautiful setting.

 

"There are few places as beautiful as Harsens Island," said Hart, who fell in love with the island and moved there two years ago. "When we planned this festival we chose Bluegrass because it is lively and fun and steeped in American tradition.  

 

"I believe people truly want to get back to basics. This festival allows them to visit a beautiful place, enjoy some of the best bluegrass bands in the region, share each other's company, and feast on mouth-watering, slow-cooked barbecue."

Organizers made a concerted effort to seek regional vendors specializing in natural, organic, handmade crafts. Nearly 50 artists and vendors will display their work and goods at the first-time island festival.

 

Even some of the sponsors fit the natural theme. Sponsor and event beer provider, Patrick Hool, microbrews his beer in St. Clair adjacent to Sue's Coffee House, a mom and pop operation. Cooper's Canine of Algonac, another sponsor, sells all natural pet products.  Preferred Charters, of Port Huron, will provide old-time trolley rides to festival goers for a small fee, bringing them on a brief tour from offsite parking locations such as Sunset Harbor Marina, Brown's Field and the Lion's Hall.

 

Between the island beauty, the art and goods and the fabulous fare, festival goers will be kept plenty entertained. But Hart -- a Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter who spent the better part of 40 years on the road singing with some of the best in blues -- knew that having the best regional entertainers in bluegrass was vital to a great experience.

 

"I think we've found some incredible groups for our festival," Hart said. "With headliners Lonesome County we'll have great bluegrass traditions and outstanding musical talent. Skin and Bones leans toward Country and will bring some really interesting elements, including a drummer who plays an amplified 1940s tweed suitcase. Each group has a special quality that people should really enjoy. And at the end of the evening, Deepwater Bluegrass will lead everyone in campfire songs."

Tickets are $20 and are on sale now. For information on where and how to purchase them, see the box directly below.

 

The musical lineup to date is: Lonesome County, Company of Strangers, Skin and Bones, Balduck Mountain Ramblers, Catfish Mafia and Deepwater Bluegrass. For more information about the bands and to hear their music see "The Lineup!" below and click the links. WYCD and WPON Talk Show Host Sheldon Kay will be the event emcee.