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Design1o1, the MOOC that rocks! Design1o1 is a MOOC about Design...

Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:16:47 +0100

Design1o1, the MOOC that rocks!

Design1o1 is a MOOC about Design from the new german platform Iversity. But it is not a “classic” MOOC, just look:
* It has lasted 101 days, from November to February 5th: usually MOOC last 6-8 weeks, rarely 12 weeks
* 101 videos, 101 letters, 101 homeworks! Burst of applause!

* The italian team from Academia di Belli Arti di Catania (Stefano Mirti, Anne-Sophie Gauvin, Lucia Giuliano, Giovanni Pasca Raymondi, Giulia San Gregorio, Lola de la Arena, Graphics: Marco Agosta, Alica Horvathova, Andrea Molteni, Video: Pierluigi Anselmi, Carlo Altera Sound: Duccio Servi) has designed a very special way to deliver knowledge and know-how:
- an animated-stylish video of only 1:30 to 3:00 mn duration, just to deliver the daily idea-theme
- a dense letter full of links to multimedia online ressources, very rare links to books or pdf contents
- a large scope of cultural references, taking advantages of Internet to “drive” people beyond his/her physical or cultural borders (references from music to technology, from europe to asia, africa…)
- Freedom and creativity in all parts to follow-up the students: NO excel spreadsheet or specific forums to manage groups of students. Students were invited to collaborate on whatever social platform they were comfortable with.
- Only one dead-line a week to answer an eccentric quiz
- Finally assignment: pictures, lot of pictures ranked by students, that’s it !

And at the end of the day guess what? A cheerful and helpful community of students, an amazing creativity, over 40,000 students enrolled at the beginning and still 8000 at the end of the course (2163 in the Facebook Arena).

The Ariane thread of the community was this quote put in practice : “I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.”(David Hockney)

The students’ community was so enthousiastic with the course that they managed to make and deliver through the facebook group the last Sunday video-letter as a special gift to the teachers who delivered 101 videos and letters along the course. Here is the link to the students’ farewell video: http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=aqdHKDDE-7w&u=/watch?v=ANtpF0O7RWM&feature=share

The “teachers” said:
:“We will collectively explore the tools of today (facebook, twitter, instagram, the MOOC platform etc.) to step into a fantastic voyage through time and space, in which we are all absolute beginners!”
and after 3 months we feel to be “eternal beginners” as we enjoyed so much the travel!

Next stop: Design 101 exhibition at designtransfer, Berlin university of the arts - Subject : #blaueblumen.
address :udk Berlin, einsteinufer 43 , on 25-26 april 2014

More videos in YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_Cu5Z4-rSCRwbx45QzdIw

Show the world we want a phone worth keeping! #phonebloks ...

Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:57:21 +0100

Show the world we want a phone worth keeping! #phonebloks

http://thndr.it/15eLEMU

A tree trunk grown around an old bicycle

Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:38:43 +0200

“The DNA of today’s corporate structures is a century old, by and large, and like a tree trunk grown around an old bicycle, company cultures have slowly assimilated external societal changes without really changing. Part of this is specifically about technology and its role in propping up old, cascading hierarchies and other artefacts of ‘traditional’ corporate life. Far from realising the hopes and dreams of cybernetics, the centralised, command-and-control approach taken by the majority of IT functions in large firms has, if anything, reinforced the impersonal, process- and politics-based culture of large firms. But partly, of course, this is just a matter of time and patience. Email has been around in companies for over 30 years, and yet so many people even today struggle to use it properly. Perhaps social tools need the same amount of time to become so normal that they are effectively invisible.”

“…I think we under-estimated the sheer level of inertia and resistance to change that exists in many companies. So much waste of human talent remains in the way that companies continue to operate, that we cannot claim to have succeeded.”

More here http://postshift.com/2013/07/12/after_the_shift/

emergentfutures: Drones + Wine: how developers at 3D Robotics...

Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:52:41 +0200

emergentfutures:

Drones + Wine: how developers at 3D Robotics are working with farmers to harvest grapes

Developers at 3D Robotics went to Kunde Family Vineyards, a family-owned vineyard, to test a project that could revolutionize agriculture by providing farmers with on-demand aerial images of their land.

Full Story: SUAS News

How young is too young to begin coding?

Sat, 05 Oct 2013 20:25:18 +0200

“Children aged from 5-11 have so much potential for learning about algorithms and computation that it would be a shame to wait until they are teenagers before we teach them the foundations.” (source: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/ap_code/)

This is true not only for coding. It is time to re-think education in a more personalized way: we now have the tools to follow-up the learning of each learner and adapt it to match the pace and interests of each one. Mass education is a waste of time and a loss of opportunities for everyone included the educators.

A sorting game devised by computer scientist J. Paul Gibson to teach the concept of algorithms to children.

At what age do you think children could experience coding?

Small cubes that self-assemble (by MITNewsOffice)

Sat, 05 Oct 2013 19:28:00 +0200

Small cubes that self-assemble (by MITNewsOffice)

Facebook engineer/author Carlos Bueno gets kids to think

Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:59:30 +0200

Facebook engineer/author Carlos Bueno gets kids to think:

“People tend to think that scientific progress is all about discovering new facts and raising the boundaries of human knowledge, but it’s equally about discovering new ways to understand and explain things we already know. It’s about turning the previously hard things into child’s play. That’s the other half of progress.”

“People ask: "How do you teach problem-solving skills?” Well, what do you think programmers do

Facebook Performance Engineer Carlos Bueno’s book, Lauren Ipsum, at the Facebook offices in Menlo Park, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. Bueno wrote the book about computers for kids. (LiPo Ching/Bay Area News Group) ( LiPo Ching )

all day? They solve problems. They figure out novel ways to fix things. "

Is school enough? Is learning about knowledge or know how?

Sun, 29 Sep 2013 16:12:00 +0200

Is school enough? Is learning about knowledge or know how?

Explore fractals world with Fragmenterium

Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:32:00 +0200

More in http://syntopia.github.io/Fragmentarium/

thx to @benbois

Digital world is more welcoming and more sharing

Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:22:00 +0200

Digital world is more welcoming and more sharing:

Recently IBM asked me to participate in a series of interviews for their Think Marketing Program. I was in pretty good company: Twitter co-founder Biz S

“Building a culture of experimentation and creativity in the social media age”

Digital world is “more collaborative, more welcoming, and more sharing. It actually encouraged me to not be afraid of something new and to ask for help if I needed it, even though historically I was the person who other people came to for help.”

Google unleashes Coder for Raspberry Pi as kid-friendly tool

Sat, 14 Sep 2013 21:46:47 +0200

Google unleashes Coder for Raspberry Pi as kid-friendly tool:

Google unleashes Coder for Raspberry Pi as kid-friendly tool -

Tessellations | Coups de coeur dans les nuages

Mon, 09 Sep 2013 12:49:25 +0200

Tessellations | Coups de coeur dans les nuages:

Remembering this 2008 post as I was discovering “Tesselations” which are now playing the leading role in 3D printing.

Check out my Twitter profile as an animated movie....

Sun, 01 Sep 2013 13:31:10 +0200

Check out my Twitter profile as an animated movie. https://www.vizify.com/isabelle-ayel/twitter-video

Open the walls or Howto be 2.0 part three

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:33:00 +0100

Open the walls connects directly to Dr Sugata Mitra’s bright idea to put a computer into a hole in a wall in New Dehli slums.
Have companies and persons (even me) really understood all the consequences of this hole in the wall?

- All informations are there, under your fingertips on the keyboard of
your computer, no scarcity
- Copy-paste beyond the legal battle is a fabulous source of creativity (remix, re-creation)
- Everyone can connect with everyone on this planet (even the barrier
of different languages is no more so high)
- Sharing data drives to collaboration and collaboration to knowledge
and added value.

Controls of the use of Internet inside the company is certainly done with
the best intentions but the result is a restriction in knowledge and data
information with the side-effect of a decrease in creativity (no exchange
no creativity).

More and more businesses across all sectors of the economy move to the web and here are the Customers. The Internet gives a great opportunity to collaborate, to attend, to reward for …nuts. Are we really obliged to put a wall between the departments of a company or even worst between the company and its customers?

Example in Marketing (source:
http://gigaom.com/2012/03/17/marketing-is-the-next-big-money-sector-in-technology/
)
“Social networks are providing a new source of demographic data that,
combined with Facebook’s Open Graph, offer marketers a new treasure trove of information.”

More : it is time to give a kick-off to the work made inside companies,
sweapping away “process” and focusing on data. Process are for machines, the real treasure is the persons linked to these data. Social networks, social plateforms, Apps , all connected electronic devices are collecting these personalized data. Are we ready to compute-analize them to deliver the right service at the right moment?»

Linking information or Howto be 2.0 part two

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:26:00 +0100

As a wiki-early adopter I am looking at blogs with wariness. On my point of view Blogs (Posterous included…) are not collaborative tools (even with the comments part) and are linear content silos.

Linear content silo means:

- posts and comments are stocked like a sky-crapper building with only
one lift to go from one floor to another one.
- the vast majority of the posts are links free. Some clever guys are
linking their new posts with old ones, to increase SEO…

For whom are you writing flat content? Is linear content written for the
web, for the “social-web ” or for
printing?

Is your brain a rhyzome or a “sky-crapper building”? Is your brain more
effective than a strutured data base? Are you printing contents before
reading?

What if we try to write for the “social-web”, for all the persons who are
sharing knowledge, practices and howto, adding value to information. How we
will achieve this? Linking all what we can because it is the easyest thing
to do to enrich contents and start the rhyzome which can leverage
creativity. Wiki is a great booster to link everything because:

- you need to make a “link” to create content at the very beginning of
the wiki.
- as soon as your write in a wiki you are able to transform every word
in link and this link becomes a new content if you want.
- all the links in a wiki are like “tags” that accelerate all your
searches and this is what the desperate worker1.0 is dreaming for: no more
directories and folders just key words to go straight to the point of
interest.

What is your benefits to link information:

1. you will free you from flat archiving which drives to a complete
mess in your personal computer and in the offices.
2. you will use “key words” and search engines which will increase your
productivity and your creativity.
3. you will be in tune with your brain which will free space for your
knowledge work.

More: How may of you are using Tomboy on a daily basis?

*Are you ready to link everything you can? The next step to be 2.0 is : Open the walls*

Copy-paste or how to be 2.0 - part one

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:12:00 +0100

*Engaged in the Enterprise 2.0 debate, taking part of the
E20Summit> in 2010 and 2012, I was surprised how the discussions were about concepts,designs and processes instead of personal attitudes. Are people in charge of designing the Enterprise 2.0 themselves 2.0? Are they acting in a 2.0 manner? How is it to be 2.0? So I will try to define 3 basic attitudes which for me are essential to behave in a 2.0 manner. Hope you will add some more!

Improving administration productivity into organisations is often (too
often) getting rid of duplicated data.
Duplicated data are evil: error in the duplicate process, lost of time
duplicating, people working on slightly different data, bad
performance…Wait: are these arguments from nowadays or from the last century when paper and pencils where the only tools in administrations?
In 2012 organisations have plenty of computers. What represent for
you, knowledge worker , to copy and paste?

- you need a nanosecond of work on your proper device to copy-paste the data you have selected (not the whole data base supported
by IT departement)
- data are copied and pasted with no error, the computer is stupid
- your proper device is under your control: you are responsible of the
data you use and how you manage them.
- you will cope with the performance of your device if it happens to
have too heavy data.

What are your benefits to manage your data on your proper device (or in the clouds, doesn’t matter because it is still under your responsability)

1. you add what ever you want to the basic data, you know what you need
2. you rely on…you and this is a big booster to manage the data as
well as you can.
3. redundancy is key for creativity and serendipity (see
the fashion industry >
http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html
4. you signed a contract with your company in which you agree to use
all the company data for the sake of your company business. This is the
rule of your game, you are playing it to be rewarded.

So in my opinion : Duplication of data inside organisation is not a
productivity issue. It is a “security issue” which drives us to “how to
design a non-controlled organisation, a fenceless organisation?”
*More about “appification of enterprise services” *
*
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/02/11/beyond-bring-your-own-device-building-mobile-business-apps/
>
* http://meship.com/Blog/2012/02/08/bring-your-own-device-byod/

*Next to come : Link-link-link or How to be 2.0 - Part Two *