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Creative Tensions: A new approach for understanding
IDEO and the Sundance Institute have developed a very compelling way to generate discussion and curiosity. It is called Creative Tensions. And the premise is to physically take a stance along the line between opposing forces within a broader theme. … Continue reading
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Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change
In our fast-changing world, leaders are increasingly confronted by messy, multifaceted challenges that require collaboration to resolve. But the standard methods for tackling these challenges—meetings packed with data-drenched presentations or brainstorming sessions that circle back to nowhere—just don’t deliver. Great … Continue reading
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Tagged change, conversations, Meetings, strategy
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Lean and social
We still don’t understand that work is communication: we live and work in a network of conversations. Being lean means understanding that conversations are never neutral. They always affect the quality and pace of the outcome. Communication either accelerates or … Continue reading
Why Are Some Academics in Conversation an Interrupter
In conversation, I am what is known as an interrupter. I know it’s an annoying habit; I also know it’s one I share with a lot of academics. What I tell myself is that I interrupt people—friends, colleagues, students—when they … Continue reading
Civic Engagement and the Restoration of Community – Changing the Nature of the Conversation
Read This booklet is written for citizens who care for the well being of their community. It is for those people who want to live in a neighborhood and a city that works for all its citizens and who have … Continue reading
Developing Critically Thoughtful e-Learning Communities of Practice
Read Read also: Making Critical Thinking an Integral Part of Electronic Research In this paper, we consider an approach to developing critically thoughtful e-Learning communities of practice — where participants are deliberate about the use of specific intellectual tools supporting … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, CoP, Critical theory, Critical thinking, eLearning
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Reworking the web, reworking the world – how web 2.0 is changing our society
Read The Web 2.0 phenomena in a sentence: lower communication costs have led to opportunities for more inclusive, collaborative, democratic online participation. As the costs of communicating online decreased, more people, in terms of million, decided that it was worth … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Communication, Conversations, Democracy, Dialogue, Social change, Web 2.0
Tagged communication, social change, web2.0
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Biosphere, Homosphere, and Robosphere – Living systems, Language, Conversations, Emotions, Love, Friendship
Read The biosphere is a history of autonomous living systems. It is a history of transformations in the conservation of living. In the biosphere what is conserved is living, with changes in the forms of living, that is various … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Emotions, Maturana, Systems
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Argumentation and Dialogic Teaching – Alternative Pedagogies for a Changing World
Read Studies of classroom communication indicate that certain patterns of interaction – exploratory talk, argumentation and dialogue – promote high-level thinking and intellectual development through their capacity to involve teachers and learners in joint acts of meaning-making and knowledge construction. … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Critical pedagogy, Dialogue, Education
Tagged critical pedagogy, dialogue, future learning
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The role of Dialogue Conferences in the Development of Learning Regions
Read Something very special happens when people from a region come into living contact with each other, face-to-face. In responding not only to each other’s uniqueness, but also to the unique features of their shared surroundings, they create between … Continue reading
Posted in Community development, Conversations, Dialogue, Learning, Participatory methods, Relational
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