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Category Archives: Interesting Ideas
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
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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Tagged architecture, classroom design, collaboration, creativity, office design, spaces
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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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Tagged ASER report, creativity, education, India, innovation, teacher evaluation test
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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
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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Tagged breast cancer, condom wrapper, design, one world futbol, social innovation
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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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Tagged Coursera, education, higher learning, innovation, Knewton
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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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Tagged innovation, management, Peter Drucker, systematic innovation, theories
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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
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

