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My book is finally available on Kindle!
The original limited edition version of my book, How To Come Up With Great Ideas and Actually Make Them Happen, is down to its last few copies barely 10 weeks after we received crates of them. This...
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Unknown unknowns. #ungoogleable thinking for #28daysofwriting
Designing the unknown | Long Version (25min) from CGS Mines ParisTech on Vimeo. In short: you don't know what you don't know. And given that you do not know you don't know it, there's no way for you...
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Failure: When is it "a fail too far"? #28daysofwriting
At a concert in Gothenburg Concert Hall October 23, 2013, Christian Zacharias stopped playing in the middle of Haydn's Piano Concerto, interrupted by a cell phone ringing for the second time the same...
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Would you rather look smart or be smart? #28daysofwriting
Reggie Watts breaks me up every time I hear the beginning of this TED Talk. It's funny because, so many times before, I've heard this kind of faux-erudite nonsense from self-proclaimed...
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Learning about the unknown unknowns #28daysofwriting
Designing the unknown | Long Version (25min) from CGS Mines ParisTech on Vimeo. Sometimes the 28 days of writing is really the 25 minutes of watching. My question: when a teacher uses Grant Wiggins...
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Keeping students at school 24/7 through the Seven Spaces of Learning
Imagine designing a school where the bell never rings, the day never ends, that keeps students in for as long as possible, in the same way as Google has designed its campuses to keep employees happy,...
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Making isn’t as important as the design thinking dispositions that come with it
In the Designing Spaces for Learning Masters subject I wrote and teach at Charles Sturt University, there is one week spent on Experimental Spaces. Part of that module is on making and maker culture....
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Do schools ever want to partner with business?
“Teachers like to agree with each other, when we talk about learning. It’s hard to change that, when the model we have wanted to make work has nonetheless been failing for 40 years.” Professor Brian...
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Why education needs more fuzzy thinking
It’s been a decade since I first heard the education conference cliché that we are preparing our kids for a future we don’t even understand. I argue that since then we've done little about it, in this...
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The unknown unknowns – test out your ideas
Not knowing what you don't know is one of the most troublesome concepts of living in an information rich time poor world. And for educators, who have been used to knowing a lot about some stuff for...
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It’s high time for designers to get out of the way of design thinking
A prospective client sent me a link to this in-depth article on IBM's design thinking revolution, where Phil Gilbert, IBM's General Manager of Design, has hired over 1000 designers into the firm, and...
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MONO Decision-making: Minimum Oblique Non-Obvious
When you want someone to do something, you tell them so. In companies and schools alike, we've found a polite way to tell people what to do by writing visions, missions and all sorts of other PDFs...
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The unknown unknowns – test out your ideas
Not knowing what you don't know is one of the most troublesome concepts of living in an information rich time poor world. And for educators, who have been used to knowing a lot about some stuff for...
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It’s high time for designers to get out of the way of design thinking
A prospective client sent me a link to this in-depth article on IBM's design thinking revolution, where Phil Gilbert, IBM's General Manager of Design, has hired over 1000 designers into the firm, and...
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MONO Decision-making: Minimum Oblique Non-Obvious
When you want someone to do something, you tell them so. In companies and schools alike, we've found a polite way to tell people what to do by writing visions, missions and all sorts of other PDFs...
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To look forward, don’t beat a retreat
Defining strategy is the most important work a leadership team can do. The last place they should go to do it is a retreat. It’s January, and wherever I look online I see so many friends’ new year’s...
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