Rethinking innovation: harnessing the collective creativity of the crowd

By Jochen Schweitzer, University of Technology, Sydney and Joanne Jakovich, University of Technology, Sydney The past few years have seen a resurgence in design as a driver of innovation. This has been visible in the popular managerial press and also … Continue reading

The Machine is Us/ing Us?

The Machine is Us/ing Us? #edmooc But that is good. That’s only if we like us. Wesch, M. (2007). The Machine is Us/ing Us? (4:33)  

Steve Keil – A Play Manifesto

Play Manifesto is a social platform for sharing the importance of rediscovering and integrating integrating Play into our lives, our schools, and our work. Play provides a sense of purpose, mastery, and fulfillment – motivating us to innovate and thrive … Continue reading

Why are you doing this?

Hilarious, and also moving.

Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human

“If you really want to know what society is going to be like in 20 years, don’t ask a technologists like me: ask kindergarten teachers. They are the ones that know what society is going to be like in one … Continue reading

The Most Powerful Instructional Technology Ever Invented Is Human Conversation

Digital Warriorship

The full ebook is available exclusively on Ebookling. Read the Introduction to Digital Warriorship by Gwen Bell. February 5, 2011 A slushy snow is falling in Boulder. I write to you from the kitchen sink at The Urban Retreat. That’s literal. I … Continue reading

Introduction to Mental Cybernetics

The full ebook available exclusively on Ebookling on their launch day (February 15). This is the Introduction to Augmented Humanity by Everett Bogue. Introduction to Mental Cybernetics For a very long time, homo sapiens only used physical tools. We clubbed … Continue reading

Ways to Empathy

Bestselling author, political advisor and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and opens the way to end our enthrallment by outdated concepts and half-baked beliefs in what our human nature is supposed to be.