social benefits it might bring in terms of user autonomy and community-building
There are contexts in which these things matter more. Maybe worthwhile to start from there. Not focusing on business models or “does it scale”. But on a plethora of initiatives and pilot projects.
Yes, my intention was to show the most easily replaced in dark and move it to the least easily replaced.
One linear model, represented in something of a spiral… Agreed that the transformative experience is tough to “disrupt”, but the whole “content delivery” emphasis shows that the disruption isn’t so quick.
As a result, new disruptive innovations emerge that are more modular—or unbundled
The Innovator's Mindset, George Couros
Specifically, the study’s authors found two types of information skills that correlated with maximum ideation power: idea scouting and idea connecting. Idea scouts are good at identifying external ideas from diverse experts and resources on Twitter, and they convert weak ties to strong ties, including in offline face to face conversations. Idea connectors are good at identifying business opportunities from the Twitter ideas they discover; they curate and direct those ideas to the best business stakeholders across their organizations.
The more diverse your network of friends on Twitter, the more innovative your ideas tend to be. That’s the conclusion of a five-year study of hundreds of people across five companies, in industries ranging from technology to food production to higher education.
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-twitter-users-can-generate-better-ideas
it’s also something of a hack
Wait… Michael Schrage and Eric von Hippel must know each other, right?
Center Priorities
priorities
Most centers (81%) report up through the Provost or Academic Affairs Office. The remainder report to the CIO (6%), the library (2%) or “other” units such as a special learning or innovation
Technology is often not the leading focus of most of these efforts, but rather viewed as a tool to potentially help achieve desired outcomes. UT-‐Austin, for example, has created an Associate Vice Provost for Learning Sciences position that oversees a Learning Sciences group that includes faculty developers, digital content developers, technologists, and a unified learning analytics infrastructure. Duke’s center, which is the only one among the 17 that reports up through the library, works very hard to take faculty who come in wanting to test a new technology and get them thinking, instead, about transforming their course. This is also true for Carnegie Mellon’s Eberly Center, which grounds any technical solutions in the desired learning outcomes
In the past few years, many colleges have expanded the scale and scope of centers that support teaching and learning with technology, as part of an effort to build a new “innovation infrastructure” for instruction.
Innovation infrastructure
there will be more experimentation around content
One would hope that the field is wide open for experimentation. Yet such dreams of creative endeavours get crushed by business models.
a web-wide ‘Like’ feature could just be implemented as a special kind of annotation
Unlike some other approaches to development, this acknowledgment that usage can push innovation could help expand Hypothesis beyond a core base of “annotation geeks”. Document-level annotations can serve to classify or evaluate, like social bookmarking. What’s wrong with that?
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.
In an earlier paragraph: "If the city is the world which man created, it is the world in which he is henceforth condemned to live" and I interpret that with the text that I highlighted. I come up with an understanding that cities and the constructed environment at big scales coincides with our ability to make and recreate the cities and ourselves. It has to do with personal growth and change which evidently amounts to the growth and change of our cities. Both seemingly connected.
Five Arguments against the Learning Management System
Innovation in education isn’t about the latest gadget or app, or about how adept a student is at using a smartphone to consume the latest Internet meme. It’s about how technological tools can empower students to become who they want to be, and who we need them to be — the kind of children and young people who ask, “What can I improve? How can I help? What can I build?”
However the Internet changes how governments work, I’m optimistic that it’s a good thing for governance.
However, we have to be extremely wary of importing too many things from the technology world into governments. "Move fast and break things" is great when you can just roll out a patch, but not so good when it costs a generation their education or health care.
mEDRA has been created as a solution for the need of the publishing industry to be supported in the technological innovation process by professionals with a deep understanding of the specific requirements and dynamics of the sector, that could provide specialised technological solutions and expertise.
mEDRA brings toghther publishing and tecnology experise. This is an effective approach to digital disruption.
And therefore we must be on our guard, lest, in striving to carry to a higher point the emotion we have excited, we rather lose what we have already gained.
being alert and responsive to the mood of the listener, and knowing how to adjust effectively requires "presence" and practice