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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Can Ecosystems Show How to Fix the Euro?
This post, by Dr. Giovanni Siepe, is our last before the holidays. We wish you all a very happy holiday season, and we’ll be back in 2012! In an article by Debora MacKenzie in the New Scientist magazine entitled ‘Can … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, Deming, economics, interdependencies, new economics, Systems Thinking
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Skills vs. Culture in Education – Developing a Solution
In our previous post we looked at the conflicting positions of a school that emphasizes skills vs. a school that emphasizes culture. The ‘skill school’ protects the need to develop ability to apply skills in a work environment, whereas the … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, education, innovation, intelligence, interdependencies, schools, systemic
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Skills vs. Culture – a Conflict in Education and Innovation
Humanity evolves through cooperation. This cognitive evolution has allowed us to grow beyond living in isolated, warring tribes to create international communities based on common interests. The distinctive feature that has allowed mankind to evolve in this cooperative way beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged cutlure, education, innovation, intelligence, schools, theory of constraints, Thinking Process Tools
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Looking at Systemic Solutions for Education and Innovation
Standardized vs flexible In our previous post, we looked at our take on the Core Conflict affecting innovation in education today related to standardized knowledge and testing vs. flexibility and personalization. In this post, we take a closer look at … Continue reading
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Looking at the Core Conflict in Education and Innovation Today
In this post we will be looking at what we consider to be the Core Conflict regarding Education and Innovation. We have analyzed this conflict using a rigorous tool that combines intuition with logical analysis to produce a solution that … Continue reading
