Hire DESIGN ARTISTS

Why is the Department of Education Industry Model allowed to exist? Why not hire design artists to redesign it. Until the department is redesigned, American citizens will never have a K12 curriculum that will be useful.

1980 Steve Jobs on the Roots of Apple and vision for the company.

Walter Isaacson conversation about Jobs' life, inspiration and legacy with Museum CEO John Hollar.

 

This is what the Bill Gates lousy Microsoft Business Culture does for <nothing to do with business of> Education "reform" deform.

Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch: Shawn Parr is the The Guvner & CEO of Bulldog Drummond, an innovation and design consultancy headquartered in San Diego. Culture is a balanced blend of human psychology, attitudes, actions, and beliefs that combined create either pleasure or pain, serious momentum or miserable stagnation. Culture, like brand, is misunderstood and often discounted as a touchy-feely component of business that belongs to HR. It's not intangible or fluffy, it's not a vibe or the office décor. It's one of the most important drivers that has to be set or adjusted to push long-term, sustainable success.
If there's any doubt about the value of investing time in culture, there are significant benefits that come from a vibrant and alive culture:
Focus: Aligns the entire company towards achieving its vision, mission, and goals.
Motivation: Builds higher employee motivation and loyalty.
Connection: Builds team cohesiveness among the company’s various departments and divisions.
Cohesion: Builds consistency and encourages coordination and control within the company.
Spirit: Shapes employee behavior at work, enabling the organization to be more efficient and alive.

 

Many high school graduates now enter college ill-prepared to tackle the coursework.  Nationwide, about 1/3 of 1st year college students require one remedial course.  At two-year public colleges, the number rises to 42%. And for those students who do enroll in those "catch-up" classes, many do not complete the requirement and tend not to return to school.  Last year, colleges spent about $33 million on remedial education, twice as much as they did 10 years ago. Should colleges offer remedial courses?  Why do so many high school students need help?  And how can high schools work more closely with colleges to assure graduates are prepared? 

 

The Future Design of Curriculum

 

The Future Design of Curriculum is Interdisciplinary / Transdisciplinary modules using folklore / Folk arts to spearhead all content.

Motivation starts with curiosity which starts as "to do with the folk" from what is personal, going on in your world, this naturally becomes the springboard to the why, what, when where and how of what you want to know.

WE WANT TO BE MOTIVATED and look into the future, we want to know what is going to happen.

 

 

 

Dept. of Ed
Redesign

A non disposable product that stands the test of time. Something well designed should cost LESS NOT MORE (which includes Higher Ed)

Good Design is

• something we all want
• defines us as up to date people - not like what has gone on before (yesterday) which is so old fashioned
• Having Good Taste

Good design has to be

• a reflection of the emotional energy you want to see in it
• Emotionally Authentic - it should be what it is.
• For the 21st Century
• Transdisciplinary / Interdisciplinary - Western Curriculum emphasizes process over results.
  Western K-12 "HIGHER ORDER" THOUGHT PROCESSES ARE: classifying, inferring, hypothesizing, generalizing, valuing, relating, and synthesizing." aka Dispositions of Mind.
• Department of Education is wrong about the theory of learning by Marion Brady, veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum designer and author.

MIT Media Lab is an anti-disciplinary research organization, the Media Lab focuses on the invention of new technologies that radically improve the way people live, learn, express, work, and play. Candidates should have a record of original thinking, action, and impact in the arts, design, and quality of life. Applicants should be willing to take risks commensurate with the Media Lab's willingness to look beyond known boundaries and disciplines.
Successful candidates will establish and lead their own research group within the Media Lab; pursue creative work of highest international standard; engage in collaborative projects with corporate members and other Media Lab research groups; supervise master's and doctoral students; and participate in the Media Arts and Sciences academic program.
The Media Lab welcomes applications from candidates interested in establishing research programs in: music, performance, arts, design, food, fashion, architecture, games, things we have not thought of, or any combination thereof.
Appointments will be within the Media Arts and Sciences academic program, principally at the assistant professor level. A doctorate is not necessary, but evidence of extreme creativity is.
The Media Lab is building a diverse community of scholars, and strongly encourages applications from women and members of under-represented groups.
Website: http://www.media.mit.edu/about/faculty-search
Questions? Contact faculty-search@media.mit.edu

Form / Policy begets form -- What Form should education take?

The purpose of good design is to create an appropriate environment where people feel good. People will chose good as a way to express themselves, not drop out.

I can remember when we landed on the moon in 1969, which was a massive event for the American Psyche.

"Question Authority," to not take it for granted that just because, in 1893, the Committee of Ten met for three days in New York and narrowed the curriculum down from 40+ subjects to something we now call "the core," that that core provides a good education.

Association of American Colleges: "We do not believe that the road to a coherent education can be constructed from a set of required subjects or academic disciplines." ("Integrity In the College Curriculum, A Report to the Academic Community," Project On Redefining the Meaning and Purpose of Baccalaureate Degrees, 1985)

Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching: "The disciplines have fragmented themselves into smaller and smaller pieces, and undergraduates find it difficult to see patterns in their courses and relate what they learn to life." Prologue to "College: The Undergraduate Experience In America," November 1986

There's an alternative to the disciplines as an organizer of knowledge.

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It's the Story You Tell Yourself

 

 

The actual design of a product is the political narrative that defines our culture.

THIS IS OUR STORY