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AIESEC Partners with the Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation

The Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation is pleased to announce a new partnership with AIESEC, an international non-profit organization that provides students with leadership training and internship opportunities. Faculty from Adianta SLI will join and promote AIESEC’s National Leadership … Continue reading

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Classroom Design for Creativity – A Lesson from Google

Ever since I started working here at CKS and began writing about design, innovation, creativity and so on, I’ve often read and written about the physical design of spaces and how they influence creativity. You can find many an article … Continue reading

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The State of Education in India

Yesterday saw the release of the Annual State of Education Report (ASER) for 2012, reviewing the education system and the various initiatives implemented by the government to promote education in rural India. The report assesses the impact of these programs … Continue reading

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Learning to Transform Education

As we enter a new year with new hopes and resolutions for our selves, it may also be time to think about what we resolve to do as a society. Recent events and the accompanying protests and general social unrest … Continue reading

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Social Innovation by Design

via @Guardian We often talk about the need to integrate design principles, design thinking, and of course, designers, when we talk about social innovation. This may not be essential nor always necessary, but there is a definite role for the … Continue reading

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The Future of Learning in a Connected World

As I research innovation in education, the most common theme, naturally, is the integration of technology in the education process, although different people have varying opinions on the nature of this integration. I have read articles that claim that technology … Continue reading

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Drucker’s Seven Sources of Opportunity for Innovation

Management guru Peter Drucker was one of the first theorists of innovation who believed that innovation could be systematized in any organization. He wrote that purposeful innovation results from analysis, systemic review and hard work and can be taught, replicated … Continue reading

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Collaboration for Education: the WISE 2012 Summit

As you’re probably aware, we’ve been grappling over the past couple of months with the idea of collaboration and its relationship to innovation, the basic premise being that a cross-sectoral collaborative approach is one of the crucial ingredients for systemic … Continue reading

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My Biggest Failing as an Entrepreneur: Not Asking for Help

This will date me, but I first heard the song ‘Message in a Bottle’ by The Police off a 33 r.p.m. record in my parents drawing room. It’s an eloquent parable of a song, written by a loner, sending out … Continue reading

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A Brief Overview of Pecha Kucha Night #13 (part 3/3)

This is the third and final post in a series of articles providing an overview of the Pecha Kucha night at the American Center last Thursday. One week after the event, I still feel energized by the presentations I witnessed … Continue reading

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