Well…looks like I got the job. More later.
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I’m going to pull a Karen…Resonate (Pronunciation Key) v. “To evoke a feeling of shared emotion or belief”

I’ve loved Negroponte ever since Being Digital. Does any of this “resonate?”

Innovation is inefficient. More often than not, it is undisciplined, contrarian, and iconoclastic; and it nourishes itself with confusion and contradiction. In short, being innovative flies in the face of what almost all parents want for their children, most CEOs want for their companies, and heads of states want for their countries. And innovative people are a pain in the ass…

So what makes innovation happen, and just where do new ideas come from? The basic answers-providing a good educational system, encouraging different viewpoints, and fostering collaboration-may not be surprising…

Our biggest challenge in stimulating a creative culture is finding ways to encourage multiple points of views…

Two additional ingredients are needed to cultivate new ideas. Both have to do with maximizing serendipity. First, we need to encourage risk… The second ingredient is encouragement for openness and idea sharing-another banality nearly impossible to achieve. …

A key to ensuring a stream of big ideas is accepting these messy truths about the origin of ideas and continuing to reward innovation and celebrate emerging technologies.

(via Stephen)

This is what I find so cool and so motivating about this process, being a pain in the ass, collaborating with people from different realities, and the openness of our work. Or, as Pat so eloquently put it…”We’re humble enough to recognize that we don’t have any idea yet what this technology means for teaching and learning, and professionally committed and generous enough to try to puzzle it out in public, temporarily putting to the side some of our more personal digital goals and creativity.” On…on!
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