I came across this resource from IDEO, the premier design and innovation consultancies in the world today. They have this amazing toolkit which breaks down a design-oriented mindset to problem solving in five steps: discovery, interpretation, ideation, experimentation and evolution. Simplify the exercises and see if you can use them to define and find unusual solutions to a challenge you’re facing in your life or business.
The Coaching eLearners 6-12 Summer Session 2011 opened this week. A very exciting course for developing 21st century habits of mind.
Today’s NYTimes had any interesting article called, “Homework Help Site Has a Social Networking Twist”. Poojan Nath is the founder of Piazza a website created to help students post questions and get answers.
“The whole idea of Piazza stems from the dynamics that I observed at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, an elite engineering school in India where Ms. Nath went to school. There, she had seen how her male classmates collaborated on problem sets. From the sidelines I saw how effective it was to get immediate help, from peers in the same room,” Ms. Nath, 30, said.
Although there are rival services, like Blackboard, an education software company, Piazza’s platform is specifically designed to speed response times. The site is supported by a system of notification alerts, and the average question on Piazza will receive an answer in 14 minutes.
Between the hammock and the beach, Cahuita was a very wonderful vacation.
Our front porch….ahhh!
You should be able to view the video. I am still trying to figure out how to upload a video directly into my blog from my iPad.
Call me a bit obsessive if you’d like…but before you utter those words, just look at how much nicer this bookshelf looks after some simple organizing and rearranging.
